EA's Dawngate MOBA canceledo

[Rhapsody]

Revealed to the world in mid-2013, Dawngate was intended to be EA's triumphant entry into the lucrative, League of Legends-dominated MOBA genre. But a little more than six months after the open beta began, the plug has been pulled.


"We built a game in Dawngate that wasn’t simply a clone of existing MOBAs, but one that truly pushed the genre forward in many ways," Group General Manager Matt Bromberg said in today's announcement of the cancellation. But while the game has been in various forms of beta testing for almost 18 months, "we're not seeing the progress we'd hoped for," he continued. "This isn’t the outcome we wanted, but beta testing is about learning and improving, and ultimately, about making difficult decisions about how to proceed."


Dawngate will continue to operate for 90 days, and players will be given full refunds of any money they spent on the game during the beta. Bromberg said most of those refunds should be processed within the next ten days, but players who don't have current payment information on file will need to contact the company first at help.ea.com. For those who want to see what they missed out on, the client is, for now at least, still available for download at Dawngate.com. As for developer Waystone Games, its fate isn't clear at this point, but is unlikely to be good.

La verdad no lo probé, así que no sabría decir que tanto iban a salir del tipo de MOBA que todos conocemos.
Diría que es una lástima, pero la verdad, con el tema de toda la guita que están dejando los torneos de DotA 2 y LoL explotó la moda de los MOBA. Todos quieren meter la cuchara y eso generó que aparezcan demasiado MOBA últimamente. Así que uno más, uno menos... Además era de EA, seguramente iban a currar zarpado con la plata para comprar PJs y todas esas cosas. EA plz.

Alguien lo había probado? Por lo que dice ahí todavía pueden bajarlo para ver que onda.

[The_Frog]

Lo probé por unas semanas cuando estaba en beta cerrada (MM aún no estaba implementado y los shapers estaban desbloqueados estilo dota). Tenía algunas cosas interesantes como el sistema de roles, que permitía por ejemplo jugar casi cualquier shaper como support eligiendo tactician, y los spirit wells (minas). Dejé de jugar cuando se pasaron al modelo de negocio del LoL, introdujeron rotaciones, etc. Para mí la cagaron al ir por ese camino, a menos que pensaran copiarle a Smite y permitir desbloquear todos los shapers por un precio no muy elevado.