First City of Heroes, and now this: The gamers graveyard has been getting disturbingly full these past few months, although we won’t need a very big tombstone for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Commander.
Called a “gamer’s game” amongst Facebook’s very casual-friendly library of entertainment, it seems that Loot Drop’s military strategy game didn’t find quite the audience it had hoped amongst the Facebook crowd, so it’s being shut down by the end of the year. “Ghost Recon Commander will unfortunately be discontinued because the game play mechanics did not resonate with the core gamer audience,” a Ubisoft Representative told Game Informer when it called for comments, and continued to say “For our Ghost Recon fans, we will continue to operate Ghost Recon Commander from now until the end of the calendar year with monetization removed.”
Of course, this is more than just the loss of something to waste your time with on Facebook: it also means the loss of several developing and programming jobs. That’s always sad, but Ubisoft assures us there’s a silver lining: “This decision does not reflect a change of strategy for any of Ubisoft’s other social games currently in development or operation.”
Oh good. Because I happen to know about a team of developers who actually could use the work.
I’m not a huge fan of facebook games, for however hardcore they claim to be, but this game apparently had 190,000 monthly users who were active players, so I’m sure this is harder news for them. That said, with how quickly FPS fans migrate from one game to the next, I’m pretty sure any eulogies the fans write up will be short. By comparison.
Still, something will have to fill the void. I’m sure Zynga would be happy to have you.
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