Loadout Shutting Down May 24, Citing "Flat" Revenues And GDPR Expenses

Jason Winter
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A few weeks ago, we told you about Gravity Interactive ending its services in Europe for Ragnarok Online and the rest of its games, due to the new regulations that will be enacted via the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. That's now claimed another victim, as Edge of Reality's free-to-play shooter Loadout will soon be closing its doors as well -- not only in the EU, but worldwide.

Developer "Rob" posted a heartfelt message on the game's Steam page, thanking players for their support and the dev team for all of its hard work. He detailed a number of reasons for the move, first and foremost the GDPR, which he describes as "well-intended" but ultimately a death blow for Loadout and other small businesses.

Rob went on to say that Loadout's cloud service provider is also closing up shop, a move he believes is related to GDPR, and overall rising costs while Loadout's revenues "stayed flat," causing the game to go "deep into the red, losing an alarming amount of money per month."

To be honest, that last part sounds like as good a reason to shut down, GDPR or no. It's sad for fans of the game, no doubt, as well as the employees, but when your revenues are flat and you're averaging barely 100 concurrent players while your expenses are rising, that's not regulation causing your problems. It's just a crowded market -- and first-person shooters are definitely an example of that -- that you're unable to make an impact in.

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About the Author

Jason Winter
Jason Winter, News Editor
Jason Winter is a veteran gaming journalist, he brings a wide range of experience to MMOBomb, including two years with Beckett Media where he served as the editor of the leading gaming magazine Massive Online Gamer. He has also written professionally for several gaming websites.

Discussion (3)

Gahen 5 years ago
It was a great game, but literally every player was using cheats above the beginner levels. They should have invested in proper Anti-Cheats, but instead they just stopped the development of the game on the first issue.

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Jafarson 5 years ago
It was already dead for years, I loved that game so much. Really dont understand why devs abandoned it. Hope some good developer will adopt this game and will relaunch it, I could play it again daily :(


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