Harmony will probably be shutting down on September 6, solely 11 days after it is launch date. Gamers on the PS5 and PC will probably be provided full refunds for the acquisition of the sport, because the staff accountable and Sony goes again to the drafting board to determine what’s subsequent.
This information broke courtesy of a PlayStation weblog publish posted only a few minutes in the past, by which Ryan Ellis (sport director at Firewalk Studios) wrote up what the longer term holds for the ill-fated team-based shooter.
“Harmony followers — we’ve been listening carefully to your suggestions for the reason that launch of Harmony on PlayStation 5 and PC and need to thank everybody who has joined the journey aboard the Northstar. Your assist and the passionate group that has grown across the sport has meant the world to us.”
“Nevertheless, whereas many qualities of the expertise resonated with gamers, we additionally acknowledge that different facets of the sport and our preliminary launch didn’t land the best way we’d supposed. Subsequently, right now, now we have determined to take the sport offline starting September 6, 2024, and discover choices, together with these that may higher attain our gamers.”
“Whereas we decide the most effective path forward, Harmony gross sales will stop instantly and we are going to start to supply a full refund for all avid gamers who’ve bought the sport for PS5 or PC. For those who bought the sport for PlayStation 5 from the PlayStation Retailer or PlayStation Direct, a refund will probably be issued again to your authentic cost technique.”
Harmony’s launch didn’t go down effectively, releasing to an extremely small variety of day one gamers. That determine, peaking at 697 gamers on Steam on its launch day, solely continued to dwindle. As of writing its on 30, effectively under different video games of comparable price range out within the wild proper now.
Whether or not the sport goes free-to-play, is closely reworked for a couple of years, or thrown away endlessly stays to be seen. But it surely’s protected to say that after 8 years of improvement time and thousands and thousands sunk in prices, this is not the end result anybody at Firewalk, Sony, or in any other case anticipated.