Sayonara: Rusty Hearts shutting down

Michael Dunaway
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Fun fact, Rusty Hearts was the first game I ever reviewed. Sad fact, after three years the dungeon-based fantasy MMO is coming to an end on September 15th. The news broke across the game's official site late last week, with Perfect World Entertainment thanking fans for their "loyalty, dedication, and countless hours crawling through dungeons."

Although the official servers aren't coming down until September, PWE has already removed the ability to download the game and current players will not be able to add additional currency to use in the cash shop. Users who've logged in over the past 30 days can expect to have their past 6 months' worth of Zen purchased or transferred into Rusty Hearts refunded for use in any other titles on PWE's Arc platform.

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Michael Dunaway
Michael Dunaway, News Editor

Michael Dunaway has been part of the MMOBomb team for years and has covered practically every major Free-to-Play MMO title since 2009.

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Discussion (40)

Galaxiess 10 years ago
Kind of sad, I really liked RH, excluding the fact PWE never updated it in ages.
buggy 10 years ago
PWE dont do updates on other games because now they have Swordsman online so they whant to make Cash from it,that`s why they focus now on SWO because it is populated now and they will make money untill people will realise what is about PWE and leave this game too,so i`l hope Rusty Hearts to be on other company because i loved it,it has great gameplay and loved PvP of it,but as you say Cash shop is Cancer of the game.
Rusty hearts 10 years ago
it was such a good game.. i only stopped because of the lack of playerbase, such a shame; really enjoyed combo-ing everything to death
Merkadis 10 years ago
So, pwe had finished milking another game huh.
Aer 10 years ago
I liked certain aspects of the game. but the fact that no one wanted to do dungeons togethr killed. it was pretty much a solo player game and I didnt liek that part at all so I quit. Why are F2P players so vile and just bullies ? For this reason WoW will not did. the monthly sub , filters out shiits
tytgamer 10 years ago
I played it on launch, it was really funa nd the story was good. i left beucase of the infinite grinding and because PWE eventually ruined it witht he cash shop
Time spender 10 years ago
I wanted to try dat game...
Good I didn't.... Or I will waste my time for nothing...
[email protected] 10 years ago
Good news, one generic asian shet less!
DubGuySeven 10 years ago
If u like the game, google is ur best friend for privat servers
BOOM! 10 years ago
The game was amazing. And then PWE kick in and broke the whole game...
fluttermoth 10 years ago
Shame. It was a good game. Based on some things I've read,this has nothing to do with PWE's cash shop (which really wasn't that awful as far as PWE cash shops go), and more to due with certain situations out of PWE's control. I mean,yeah,fuck Perfect World but it doesn't seem like there was much they could really do here.

BTW,someone just informed me of an upcoming, international, private server known has as Rusty Revolution. Supposedly,it's in closed BETA right now and will include some of the content we never got here in the NA version of the game. Haven't checked it out yet myself,though.
Urs-00 10 years ago
Again people blaming PWE's cash shop

first of all, the game didn't shut down because of the cash shop, the game got empty because the dungeons were repetitive and most of the game felt more like a single player game

second, the game shutting down has nothing to do with PWE, it has to do with lack of support from the development team... PWE doesn't develop anything, PWRD does, and this is not a PWRD game either, this is a korean game

hate pwe if you want, but don't create stupid theories about it jsut to keep hating them
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Kuruotastu 10 years ago
People complaining about PWE as always, while im sitting here actually playing one of their games.

Can you find something better to do than complain.
Why u so (RUSTY) Rusty Hearts 10 years ago
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS GAME IS SO (RUSTY) LMFAOO GG
BOOM! 10 years ago
Give me a call when you need to put your rod in a hot steamy butt.
Anon 10 years ago
I'll miss this game. Although it did have it's problems and was...sketchy at best with it's item shop (on one hand costumes had stats, on another they can be traded and often where sold for in-game currency..) i still loved and enjoyed this game. Not sure why, but I did. Good bye rusty hearts o/
Deyirn 10 years ago
ive never even tried that game
zakena 10 years ago
a new beginning for the game

http://www.rustyrevolution.org/

its a complete reboot of the game with bug fixes that the company failed to fix ..
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hovsep 10 years ago
rusty hearts din't get shut down cuase of pwe the dev's just din't add any content at all research about it before you say ERMAGUR WORST PUBLISHER EVUUUUUUUUUUUR
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And nothing of value was lost... 10 years ago
^^^^^^
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devilr 10 years ago
I dont like this game but sorry for player who love it,bye bye !
Justin iZ Here 10 years ago
Nexon and PWE are the cancer of F2P games. Rusty Hearts was a really good game until PWE did their usual "Our cash shop breaks the game!" and everyone left. They milk as much as they can from the game before they toss it aside after everyone gets sick of it and leaves. Not to mention PWE did not update RH in a long time, a looooong time.

I'd play Rusty Hearts again if it got the DFO treatment with another not terrible company bringing it back.
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Mewtwo 10 years ago
Eh, this game had too many bugs and flaws anyway. It didn't seem to be updated as often, and the game was already dying.
Todoran 10 years ago
I hope all PWI games have same fate make F2P games FREE!
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