Is the end coming?

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• SkyLord7000 Posts: 3,999 ★★★★★

  January 2022

  
  

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• GinjabredMonsta Posts: 6,454 Guardian

  January 2022

  Is there any reason you think it's coming to an end?

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• winterthur Posts: 7,723 ★★★★★

  January 2022

  Is this a duplicate forum account?

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• Dontsellthem Posts: 762 ★★★

  January 2022 edited January 2022

  We can speculate till the cows come home.
  
  I do have a question about a normal game shut down situation.
  
  I’m not a big spender but small deals here and there.
  
  Let’s say someone spent an insane amount of money a day before the game gets shut down. Are they just SOL?

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• DNA3000 Posts: 18,650 Guardian

  January 2022

  Dontsellthem said:

  We can speculate till the cows come home.
  
  I do have a question about a normal game shut down situation.
  
  I’m not a big spender but small deals here and there.
  
  Let’s say someone spent an insane amount of money a day before the game gets shut down. Are they just SOL?

  Yes and no. Legally, they have no recourse: if they spent money on a service and got the stuff, they have no legal right to claim they didn’t get what they were entitled to. People talk about suing in these situations, and the reason why you don’t generally hear about those lawsuits is most competent attorneys probably dissuade potential clients from wanting their time. They’d almost certainly lose.
  
  Practically however, they do have an option: they could always attempt to get the charges reversed. If the App Store or credit card issuer sides with them and does so (and it is extremely likely they would), it’s not like Kabam could apply negative credits to the account in such a situation.
  
  It is rare for games to shutdown instantly like that, in part for related reasons. You don’t want people spending money the day before a shutdown, and you’re bound to have lots of other things in motion at the time: partnerships, advertising, contractors working on stuff - large online games have a lot of moving parts and they don’t have a single “off” switch that can shut everything down all at once. Online games of this nature usually either go into “maintenance mode” and slowly fade away, or they have a.sunset period where they wind down and end (usually thirty to ninety days). Battlefront 2 is an example of the former, MROC is an example of the latter.

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• KabamConvict Posts: 3 ★

  January 2022

  I’m praying it isn’t coming to an end this has by far been my favorite game on IOS just wondering what’s left a lot of big players have left over the last year or so even heard a YouTuber say thronebreaker was the last milestone so I just wanted to see other peoples insight on the future of this game they are removing Realm of Champions at the end of March 2022 so it will no longer be playable
  
  

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• Colinwhitworth69 Posts: 7,172 ★★★★★

  January 2022

  The end of the game is not coming. Super profitable. They just announced today that they were close on a revamp that will fix the input issues. No need to set your hair on fire.

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• ItsDamien Posts: 5,626 ★★★★★

  January 2022

  Well considering they just announced that they’re doing a split beta test for the input issues in the March update, I very much doubt that they’re planning on canning the game before then.

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• Skiddy212 Posts: 1,101 ★★★★

  January 2022

  KabamConvict said:

  I’m praying it isn’t coming to an end this has by far been my favorite game on IOS just wondering what’s left a lot of big players have left over the last year or so even heard a YouTuber say thronebreaker was the last milestone so I just wanted to see other peoples insight on the future of this game they are removing Realm of Champions at the end of March 2022 so it will no longer be playable
  
  

  Don’t worry, this game isn’t going anywhere. If people on the forums say so, don’t listen to them lol

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• KabamConvict Posts: 3 ★

  January 2022

  Awesome thanks for your inputs on this everyone.

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• DNA3000 Posts: 18,650 Guardian

  January 2022

  KabamConvict said:

  I’m praying it isn’t coming to an end this has by far been my favorite game on IOS just wondering what’s left a lot of big players have left over the last year or so even heard a YouTuber say thronebreaker was the last milestone so I just wanted to see other peoples insight on the future of this game they are removing Realm of Champions at the end of March 2022 so it will no longer be playable

  Realm of Champions is a completely different game and it had noticeable issues right at launch that made its long term success questionable. MCOC’s success is independent of MROC, and MCOC is still wildly successful and profitable.
  
  Thronebreaker is the “last” progressional milestone only in the sense that it is the highest and most recently created one. It isn’t the last one in the sense that there will not be any more after it. If a YouTuber is claiming otherwise, frankly you need to consider upgrading your YouTube subscriptions: they are talking nonsense.

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• Dontsellthem Posts: 762 ★★★

  January 2022

  Thanks @DNA3000
  
  Very informative

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• Kerneas Posts: 3,737 ★★★★★

  January 2022

  The game isn't gonna end anytime soon.
  
  Call me naive but they said they nearly fixed the input system update. That could be sweet

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• DNA3000 Posts: 18,650 Guardian

  January 2022

  Shepard69 said:

  MCOC is Kabams cashcow don't forget. It's just a shame they wasted so much time and resources on MROC that could have been better spent on MCOC but here we are.

  I don’t fault them for trying. No game lasts forever, and I would expect them to continue to find ways to broaden their IP. It isn’t easy to make a successful game, and while there were many reasons why I thought MROC’s prospects were not high, you never know until you try.
  
  The resources spent on MROC were not resources that could have been spent on MCOC. Remember Kabam is owned by Netmarble, and it is Netmarble that ultimately makes the revenue. It isn’t Kabam’s money to do what they wish with. Netmarble is spending what they want to spend on MCOC, and the money they decided to invest in developing MROC would not have gone to MCOC if MROC didn’t exist, it would have gone to another new title development in a different IP instead. It is ultimately better for us if Netmarble invests in widening the MCOC property than taking the money and spending it on a completely unrelated development. It says they think the MCOC property is still worth investing in growing.

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• Sundance_2099 Posts: 2,786 ★★★★★

  January 2022

  It's going to last until at least the end of 2022 because they did that narrative roadmap thing hinting at stuff coming out this year.
  
  Barring a nuclear war, or us all getting irradiated by a GRB or a huge solar flare EMP-ing the planet of course, but if those happen, we've all got bigger fish to fry. Well, except the GRB, cuz then you're just dead.

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• The_man001 Posts: 624 ★★★

  January 2022

  Dread it.. run from it.. destiny arrives all the same

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• Diplodocus Posts: 234 ★★★

  January 2022

  Drop in profit does not mean loss. This game will not go down until it starts making losses which we haven't seen so far.
  A person scores 95/100 in a maths exam. Next year he scores 85/100 so will it make him fail the exam?

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• Wicket329 Posts: 2,985 ★★★★★

  January 2022

  Just wanted to drop in and say that @DNA3000’s legal analysis is spot-on. As an attorney who has had to dissuade clients from making claims like that, it’s not a thing any competent lawyer wants to be a part of, and there are potential professional repercussions for lawyers who take obviously bad cases.
  
  I know this wasn’t the main takeaway of the post, I just saw my language being spoken and wanted to chime in.

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• Kabam Porthos Posts: 4,676Moderator ›

  January 2022 edited January 2022

  Rest assured, we have no plans to shut the game down for the foreseeable future. If circumstances ever change and that becomes a possibility, we'll be sure to let everyone know in advance.

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