OrbusVR (2019), the MMORPG for VR headsets, is shutting down, with creator Orbus On-line stating it is going to cease gross sales on all platforms beginning subsequent month and shut down servers utterly in April.
The studio launched the information in a neighborhood replace (seen beneath), stating that it’s pulling OrbusVR from Steam and the Horizon Retailer come February tenth, 2025. Servers are deliberate to go offline on April sixth.
Launched first in Steam Early Entry in 2017, OrbusVR was an formidable venture for the time, because it appealed solely to PC VR customers—a inhabitants that wasn’t significantly ‘large’, however very ardent of their help for the fledgling MMO.
With the start of its full 1.0 model, OrbusVR took on the title OrbusVR: Reborn in 2019, bringing together with it a good slice of free gameplay to get curious customers hooked on the world’s overarching story, five-player dungeons, 10-player raids, enemies, jobs, and the neighborhood that supported all of it.
Not like many conventional MMOs, OrbusVR wasn’t subscription-based, however slightly a one-time buy. At launch, that was $40, nevertheless the studio since lowered the all-in worth to $20 throughout PC VR headsets by way of Steam and all Meta headsets by way of the Horizon Retailer.
The studio additionally relied on in-world purchases for a continued income stream, together with in-game store with objects similar to mounts and beauty pets on the market, in addition to by way of ‘Mini Story’ enlargement packs, which included new zones, NPCs, and questlines.
Right here’s the studio’s message in full:
We needed to start out off by thanking the neighborhood. Because the begin of improvement in 2016, to our launch into Early Entry of OrbusVR in December of 2017 all over this final yr, we now have at all times been blessed with one of the best neighborhood. This neighborhood has supported us by way of the final 8 years and allowed us to create the sport and social atmosphere that we’re happy with. For that and every part you all have completed for us, we’re without end grateful.
With that stated, it saddens us to announce that on February tenth 2025, we will probably be stopping gross sales on all platforms, with the server formally going offline on April sixth 2025. Whereas we as an organization have tried to maintain the sport so long as doable, we now have made the troublesome choice to take this subsequent and ultimate step.
Within the coming months resulting in the server shutdown, we will probably be planning just a few farewell occasions, together with elevated drop charges on legendaries, unlocking the DLC for all gamers that will not have skilled it but, and internet hosting the final official Mage Match in-game. Whereas we’re actually unhappy to say goodbye to this recreation, we wish to have a good time the enjoyable, buddies, and reminiscences which were skilled in our video games’ lengthy historical past. We plan on doing an finish of recreation wrapup, sharing stats like complete hours performed, monsters killed, and so on., within the coming months.
Whereas there are nonetheless many issues we wish to spotlight like standout moments we now have had from taking part in and interacting with the neighborhood, to favourite locations, and even a few of the lesser identified lore of the sport, this won’t be the final publish.
We’re nonetheless hopeful this market will get the love and a focus it deserves sooner or later, and need all future builders the best of success in reaching their targets! We hope this recreation has given you extra buddies and reminiscences than one can depend. We’re so happy with the work we now have all put into this recreation, together with being a part of pioneering the way forward for VR in our small approach.
Thanks for making each second of this journey value it,
OrbusVR Improvement Crew
