Again in March 2023, the Aurory group showcased its first sport, turn-based battler Aurory Tactics at GDC. Since then, it’s been a busy yr of rolling out new options, cross-chain integration, and titles all a part of the broader Aurory ecosystem, most prominently its RPG Seekers of Tokane.
Certainly, the event of each Tactics and Seekers of Tokane has been so overwhelming to the group, head of manufacturing Jonathan Campeau just lately took to platform X to announce the approaching closing of Aurory Tactics.
Whereas the developer has recognized for a very long time that dishonest and glued matchmaking is going down throughout the sport, its preventative measures haven’t been adequate to cease it. This has led the group to ban the sport amongst giant IP addresses and whole international locations.
Nevertheless, that’s now affecting the expansion of the studio’s newly launched Seekers of Tokane, which might’t be performed by customers in these international locations. So the group has discovered itself ready of getting to resolve which sport to proceed with, as balancing the 2 and operating reside ops for each, shouldn’t be sustainable.
This implies Aurory Tactics might be shut down, and Campeau explains it is going to be performed in two phases. The primary and speedy measure is to cease all rewarded battles within the sport, which can finish Monday 4th March. This might be adopted by the halt of rewards distribution on Tuesday fifth March.
The subsequent section, which can run till the tip of the present Aurory Tactics season on thirtieth April, is the ultimate sunsetting of the title after which it’ll shut down, though the group stay concerned with rebooting the sport in a model 2 kind, maybe in 2025.
