Babylon’s Fall To Shut Down Its Service on February 27, 2023
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Babylon’s Fall, the live service co-op action RPG from developer PlatinumGames and published by Square Enix, will shut down its servers on February 27, 2023 for good. The game was released 6 months ago, on March 3, 2022.
The developers broke the news and detailed what to expect from the game as we get closer to the server’s closure. Starting today, the game’s premium currency, Garaz, will now be suspended and all physical and digital copies of the game will no longer be on sale. Season 2 of the game will continue as planned from here and will last until November 29, 2022. Soon after, the final season of the game will begin, which is simply giving those still playing a chance to play any content and earn its rewards.
The developers did announce multiple events as we get closer to the game server’s closure but it doesn’t make much sense to host such events considering that all progression and gameplay data in their servers will be deleted once the game shuts down, which will happen exactly on February 27, 2023 at 10:00 PM ET.
Babylon’s Fall is a live service game that never got any kind of momentum before, during, or after the game launched last March. Based on Steamdb, the game’s all-time peak was just 1,188 players, and that was on launch day. Today, the game can barely have over ten people playing at any given time. It also didn’t help that the game launched with mediocre reviews, scoring a 41 Metacritic score with 43 reviews posted, and 2.2 user score rating with 187 users rating the game.
Babylon’s Fall also didn’t launch worldwide as some Southeast Asian regions like the Philippines had the game locked on Steam.
