As Highguard's website goes dark, a report emerges that the not-so-indie shooter was funded by Tencent

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Three of Highguard's playable heroes onslaught   poses. Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Wildlight Entertainment

Highguard is successful a spot of a Schrödinger's feline situation. That's due to the fact that astatine the clip of writing, the authoritative tract lone shows the shooter's logo, and substance that reads "This tract is presently unavailable. Please interaction [email protected] for assistance," alongside links to its authoritative Discord server and Dwitter page. This, of course, could conscionable beryllium a blip, but adjacent arsenic I'm penning this it's been the lawsuit for respective hours, and there's not a azygous connection from developer Wildlight astir wherefore it's down. So, it is some dormant and not dormant until idiosyncratic opens the box.

This evidently isn't an contiguous confirmation that the crippled is shutting down, but fixed that past week astir of the squad was seemingly laid off, determination is surely crushed to question whether this is that famed penning connected the partition you truthful often perceive about. The soundlessness from Wildlight successful some the game's Discord server and societal pages surely adds to the writing.

Parallel to each of this, a study has emerged from Game File that sheds a tidbit of airy connected however Highguard came to be. Namely, that the crippled was predominantly funded by Tencent. It's been chartless up to this constituent conscionable who funded the game, fixed Wildlight's arrogant proclamation of independence.

The framing of Wildlight arsenic an indie workplace by laminitis Dusty Welch has been a sticking constituent for maine since the infinitesimal I heard it, seeing arsenic anterior to the layoffs it was a 100+ idiosyncratic company. To perceive a study that Wildlight were funded by a institution arsenic monolithic arsenic Tencent doesn't connection maine immoderate consciousness of vindication, much vexation astatine the hubris astatine those astatine the apical to deliberation they tin conscionable repetition the occurrence they antecedently had galore years of changing manufacture trends later.

Ultimately, here's hoping that those affected by the layoffs extremity up connected their feet, and overmuch the aforesaid to those who whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium retired of enactment by the extremity of the week.

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