Ethereum’s ‘Ember Sword’ Is the Latest in a Growing Wave of Crypto Game Shutdowns

Four years after attraction 203 million dollars in NFT land salesEthereum Game Ember Sword has shut down, and the Programmer Bright Star Studios, stating the lack of funds needed to continue business. This is the latest example of a growing trend of crypto games that close the trade.

“Finally we were not able to provide funds needed to continue,” the game is Official place read now. “We explored every possible way forward. But in today’s market – where even some of the most promising projects are closing – we couldn’t find the way to continue construction.”

Multiplayer Internet game of the role (MMORPG) EMBER Sword rose to the prominentness of 2021 in the midst of a metave-procvata-hole time on Facebook Rebranded on the meta. Ended a series of funding circles and one was detected in total $ 2 millionAttracting investment from similar Streamer video games Dr. Disrezpect, Sandy box Co -founder Sebastien Borget and Twitch co -founder Kevin Lin.

The project also attracted prominent veterans of games as advisers, including Rob Pardo, former Director of Blizzard Entertainment and the leading designer of an extremely popular world of Warcraft, as well as the retired Esports Dennis player “Thresh” Fong.

While Metaverse Mania peaked in 2021, there was a Virtual grab of landIncentive NFT High Values ​​Sales In games like sand and decentral. In the midst of this explosion of interest, Ember sword himself attracted NFT land worth $ 203 million through 35,000 players.

Ember sword at the end entered into a closed beta version In July 2024, but the Gameplay shots welcomed with a series of commentators disappointed with the product.

At the end of the year the game entered the public early approach after moving to Ethereum The Network Coat is a layer-2-second move after he had previously skipped from the polygon in an invariable X.

The game is excluded forever, and the servers are out of net and the approach of disagreement are limited. In the meantime, Token Ember fell to an almost worthless, with a market border of only $ 82,000, and the price is more than 99% of Peak.

“This is not the end of us who wanted,” the place writes. “But we wanted to honestly thank you for being here, for believed in this vision and for helping that the Ember sword should not forget something.”

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident, but a part of the much wider trend of cryptocurrencies that are closing this month.

Last week, Solana Sagittarius with Cat Nyan heroes went offThe programmer 9 lives interactive and stating the inability to secure financing as the reason he had to close the trade. Hero Shooter has just completed his fourth playing test via Epic Games Store, and Studio claimed more than one million players in four periods. A full version of the game is planned to start next winter.

On the same day, either announced Through the Discord that the development of Royale from Mobile Game Blast should have abolished, although the game will become open to other developers. There was also a playing role to play Tatsumeko on Monday abolish As his creatives said they focus on their fantasy life simulator based on a disagreement called Project: Wander.

Other notable game closure in recent months include The dead and A mysterious societyFrom the Gala Game ‘The Walking Dead: Empire have also announced Excluded at the end of July.

Edited Andrew Hayward