Final week, we bought the stunning however welcome information that Fawkes Video games is unsunsetting Defiance, Trion Worlds’ outdated “transmedia synergy MMO, come April 18th. Fawkes, which already has a number of cast-off Gamigo MMOs in its roster of rescued MMO titles, advised gamers that whereas the sport is initially relaunching free-to-play PC servers hosted in North America, working the ultimate non-2050 model of the sport, it’ll be doing so with a contemporary database, which means former gamers will likely be rerolling on clear accounts with out DLC. Future content material – and a doable growth to console – is on the desk provided that the sport performs effectively sufficient to permit Fawkes the event sources.
April 18th isn’t actually all that distant, and the staff did say we may anticipate a large-scale check (with a wipe) earlier than launch, in order that needs to be arising quickly – and within the meantime, it seems as if Fawkes is planning a bit o’ advertising to get of us excited. This afternoon, the studio launched a video teaser for the comeback.
“For years, Defiance was greater than only a sport,” the video’s narrator intones. “It was a world the place friendships had been made within the warmth of battle, the place each arkfall was a problem and each mission a brand new chapter in a narrative that by no means stopped unfolding.” It’s temporary and doesn’t actually present all that a lot, however it positively units the stage for the way “Fawkes answered the decision.”
“It’s all coming again, simply as you left it.” Get hyped.
