Gearbox Publishing Announces They Will Be Shutting Down Forsaken World (2024)

Gearbox Publishing Announces They Will Be Shutting Down Forsaken World (1)

Today, Gearbox Publishing, formerly Perfect World Entertainment, announced they will be closing Forsaken World. According to the announcement, the company "no longer feels there is room for FW to flourish and grow". The business-to-English translation of this is likely, "the game hasn't been making money in a while, now". Because of this, they've decided to shutter the game. However, they're giving players a lot of lead time. The gates won't officially close until November 30 ,2022.

That being said, as of today, players can no longer purchase currency for the game. Moreover, anyone who bought currency over the last two months, March 1 through April 28, will have their FW currency converted into credits on their Arc accounts. These can be used on any Gearbox Publishing Games. (Remember, they changed branding.) Games include Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, Champions Online, and Perfect World International. The refunds will begin in May and take about a month to complete.

Gearbox Publishing Announces They Will Be Shutting Down Forsaken World (2024)

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Gearbox Publishing Announces They Will Be Shutting Down Forsaken World? ›

Gearbox Publishing has taken to the official forums to announce the sad news that all Forsaken World servers will be shut down on November 30, 2022. On that day, players' FW characters will no longer be accessible. The ability to purchase currency for FW is no longer available.

Is Forsaken World shut down? ›

Closure. On 22 April 2022 there was an announcement that the servers would be closed (deleting all the characters) by 30 November 2022. Purchases were disabled April 28, with all March/April purchases converted into Arc credit for other games. Purchases from February and earlier would not be refunded.

Why is Forsaken gone? ›

Because it isn't an expansion anymore and this way they can sell the 3 old full expansions in a bundle without raising the price of said bundle. Warning! This DLC requires the base game Destiny 2 in order to play, and it is meant to be activated on the Steam platform.

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