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Velan Studios' director of marketing, Josh Harrison, has one recommendation for studios looking to close down or «sunset» a live-service game: «make a private hosted version of your game».
No «live service» game lives forever, or in the euphemistic language of the games business, they all get «sunsetted» eventually. At a GDC talk this week, Velan Studios director of marketing Josh Harrison implored other developers to prepare for that inevitability, ideally by doing the thing we also hope they'll do every time: making their games available to play even after the official servers are unplugged.
A third of staff are at risk of losing their jobs at Velan Studios, the company behind Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit and shutdown dodgeball game Knockout City.
Velan Studios has warned that it could cut over a third of its workforce after a “major project” was suddenly cancelled.