Key Takeaways
- Realm Royale Reforged will close down on February 17, 2025 at 12pm EDT.
- This announcement comes not up to 3 weeks after layoffs at Hello-Rez Studios had been showed.
- Divine Knockout will even close down its servers on February 17.
Hello-Rez Studios has introduced that Realm Royale Reforged, the studio’s fight royale sport, can be shutting down on February 17, 2025. The announcement of Realm Royale Reforged‘s shutdown comes not up to 3 weeks after Hello-Rez CEO Stewart Chisam published that the studio can be shedding workforce individuals as a part of an interior reorganization.
As according to an X put up from Chisam, the layoffs at Hello-Rez had been a manufactured from a “complete overview” of the studio’s “technique and operations.” This overview knowledgeable Hello-Rez’s choice to focal point its efforts almost-entirely on Smite 2, the studio’s latest third-person MOBA, and Chisam’s put up indicated that Smite 1 and Paladins will be the most effective different titles to obtain ongoing improve.
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It’s thus no longer specifically unexpected to peer improve for Hello-Rez’s different live-service video games come to an finish, and Realm Royale Reforged can be a number of the first taken offline. That is set to happen on February 17, 2025 at 12pm EDT, and the sport can be got rid of from virtual storefronts at the moment.
Virtual Knockout is Additionally Shutting Down
Realm Royale Reforged isn’t the one Hello-Rez Studios sport shutting down, as Divine Knockout can be sunsetting its servers on February 17, 2025 at 12pm EDT. Whilst this name, a 3-D platform fighter, by no means had as many gamers as Realm Royale, it’s disappointing to peer the sport taken offline nevertheless. As with Realm Royale, Divine Knockout can be got rid of from virtual storefronts along the shutdown of its servers, making the sport unavailable for obtain.
With improve for Realm Royale Reforged and Divine Knockout coming to an finish, Hello-Rez Studios is left with 4 live-service titles: Smite, Smite 2, Paladins, and Rogue Corporate. Whilst Chisam’s aforementioned put up showed that the primary 3 of the ones titles will proceed to obtain various levels of updating, it mentioned not anything about Rogue Corporate. This turns out to indicate that the studio additionally plans to take Rogue Corporate offline, even though that’s not these days showed.
That mentioned, Rogue Corporate does seem to be keeping up a rather greater playerbase on Steam than the titles which can be set to be taken offline. Certainly, Rogue Corporate has a 24-hour top of over 500 gamers, whilst Realm Royale Reforged has a 24-hour top of simply over 300 gamers and Divine Knockout has a 24-hour top of underneath 50 gamers. Whilst those further gamers won’t in the long run be sufficient to justify Rogue Corporate‘s continuation, they might inspire Hello-Rez to stay the tactical shooter’s servers going past February.