Capcom announced today that its live service dino-killing game will be coming to Nintendo Switch after just a year of updates—Exoprimal– is kept artificially alive as there are no further plans to add new seasonal content to the game after the last update.
Exoprimal was first announced in March 2022 and people were immediately excited. Capcom made a new video game with dinosaurs and a red-haired woman! Was this secretly a new Dino Crisis? No! But the game still seemed like a good idea, as it pitted soldiers in mech suits against time-traveling dinosaur hordes. It was released on July 12, 2023. with mixed reviews and little excitement. In the last 12 months, four seasons of content were added. But after the latest update Capcom has confirmed After only 348 days, the expansion of the live service dinosaur shooter is complete.
On July 5, Capcom announced that “all planned Exoprimal Seasonal content is now complete,” and confirmed that starting July 11, past seasons will simply be swapped in and out each month.
Capcom said in its blog post The Exorprimal will not be discontinued. Online services will remain and the game can be played as before with all modes and content. While it’s nice that the game isn’t completely dead, its future looks bleak.
Most live service games are doomed to die slowly and sadly
By confirming that the servers will remain but no new seasonal content is planned, Capcom has essentially Exoprimal a digital zombie, doomed to stay alive for months or years while players get bored of playing the same content over and over again and eventually abandon the game.
“When you play [Exoprimal] alone or with just a few other players, bots (AI-controlled Exofighters) will still be added so you can fully enjoy the Hammerheads’ story and reach the ending,” Capcom added in its blog post. So that’s nice! You can still enjoy the game’s entire story and reach the ending.
Still, it’s pretty depressing that this is the best (and most likely) outcome for most live service games that aren’t particularly successful. If the publisher has maxed out the live service game as much as possible after a while in zombie mode, the servers will likely be shut down and the game rendered unplayable. We’ve seen it before. We’ll probably see it again.
So if you plan to play Exoprimal and to finish the plot, I would get to it sooner or later, before it was constantly growing list of dead, unplayable online games.
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