Harmony can be shutting down on September 6, solely 11 days after it is launch date. Gamers on the PS5 and PC can be supplied full refunds for the acquisition of the sport, because the staff accountable and Sony goes again to the drafting board to determine what’s subsequent.
This information broke courtesy of a PlayStation weblog publish posted only a few minutes in the past, by which Ryan Ellis (recreation director at Firewalk Studios) wrote up what the long run holds for the ill-fated team-based shooter.
“Harmony followers — we’ve been listening carefully to your suggestions for the reason that launch of Harmony on PlayStation 5 and PC and need to thank everybody who has joined the journey aboard the Northstar. Your help and the passionate group that has grown across the recreation has meant the world to us.”
“Nonetheless, whereas many qualities of the expertise resonated with gamers, we additionally acknowledge that different features of the sport and our preliminary launch didn’t land the way in which we’d supposed. Subsequently, presently, we’ve got determined to take the sport offline starting September 6, 2024, and discover choices, together with these that may higher attain our gamers.”
“Whereas we decide the very best path forward, Harmony gross sales will stop instantly and we are going to start to supply a full refund for all players who’ve bought the sport for PS5 or PC. For those who bought the sport for PlayStation 5 from the PlayStation Retailer or PlayStation Direct, a refund can be issued again to your unique cost methodology.”
Harmony’s launch didn’t go down nicely, releasing to an extremely small variety of day one gamers. That determine, peaking at 697 gamers on Steam on its launch day, solely continued to dwindle. As of writing its on 30, nicely beneath different video games of comparable funds out within the wild proper now.
Whether or not the sport goes free-to-play, is closely reworked for a couple of years, or thrown away endlessly stays to be seen. Nevertheless it’s protected to say that after 8 years of growth time and hundreds of thousands sunk in prices, this is not the end result anybody at Firewalk, Sony, or in any other case anticipated.