The bad thing about free online games is that they can shut down servers at any time and cause you to lose all the progress you have; It’s something we’ve seen on more than one occasion, when a title isn’t as successful as its developer would like.
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On the other hand, paid single player games usually offer a full experience, which you can download to your mobile and enjoy whenever you want; At least that’s the theory. Now, the Embracer group has made a lot of enemies among gamers after announcing that it will block a game that has already been sold.
Deus Ex Go stopped working
The game in question is Deus Ex Go, a compilation of puzzles inspired by the Deus Ex saga; Specifically, in the later installments featuring Adam Jensen. Although Deus Ex Go is completely different from the console and PC titles, it received good reviews for adapting the cyberpunk setting to more mobile-appropriate gameplay.
Moreover, although its price is high, $6.99, the consolation is that it is a complete game that downloads to the memory of the mobile and is always available, without micropayments; something that is unfortunately not very common in Android.
Therefore, it came as a surprise that its developers, Studio Onoma, announced today what Deus Ex Go will stop working from next January 4, 2023; In addition, three other games they developed will also close, although they are different cases since they were free and online.
In exchange, Deus Ex Go it was a paid single player game, so it’s kind of incomprehensible that it stopped working. Worse still, the game is still available for purchase on the Play Store, so its creators continue to receive money for a game they’re going to discontinue in just over a month, and they’ve already warned that they won’t return the money.
Apparently, this strange decision does not come from the creators of the game, but from above. The license of Deus Ex It was acquired last May by the giant Embracer Group, which in a few years has become one of the biggest video game companies on the market, practically only by buying up other companies. Along with Deus Ex, it also bought other classic games like Tomb Raider and Legacy of Kain for $300 million.
—Onoma (@StudioOnoma) November 22, 2022
Now Embracer Group has decided that does not want to continue investing in mobile games, focusing its resources on console and PC games; For this reason, he ordered the closure of studios and games for iOS and Android. It’s perfectly understandable, but not so much that it’s going to pocket the money of so many gamers who bought a game they hoped they could play forever. This is an unusual case, as most platforms allow you to download and play games that have been removed from the store, which tells us that this was done on purpose.
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