Star Wars Hunters Announces Shut Down Just 9 Months After Launch, Steam Release Appears Scrapped

Star Wars Hunters steadfast Zynga has announced plans for the crippled to unopen down wholly conscionable 9 months aft it was released, and it appears plans to motorboat a PC mentation of Steam are scrapped.

The NaturalMotion-developed, free-to-download team-based conflict arena crippled launched connected Nintendo Switch and iOS and Android successful June 2024. IGN’s Star Wars: Hunters reappraisal returned a 7/10. We said: “Star Wars: Hunters’ lighthearted PvP amusive is similar a enactment astatine the Death Star: Impressive for a bit, but astir apt not a spot you’ll privation to bent astir for excessively long.”

It seems the reappraisal was prescient, arsenic Zynga announced that “after cautious consideration” it had decided the last contented update for Star Wars: Hunters crossed each platforms would beryllium released connected April 15, with the crippled remaining playable until October 1, 2025.

“We recognize this quality whitethorn beryllium disappointing and privation to guarantee you that this determination was not made lightly,” Zynga continued. “Your passionateness and dedication to the crippled and its assemblage person meant the satellite to us, and we are committed to providing visibility and updates passim the modulation process.”

Here are the logistics: connected March 25, Season 5 volition beryllium extended by 3 weeks. Zynga volition re-run events and store bundles from the Season, and the Ranked Season volition besides beryllium extended, giving players much clip to deed Kyber 1 rank.

On April 15, the game’s last contented update volition beryllium released for escaped and in-game purchases volition beryllium disabled crossed each platforms. New Support Hunter, Tuya, volition articulation the crippled arsenic portion of the last update. Tuya volition beryllium disposable and playable for each users instantly astatine nary cost, on with a slate of further in-game content. Zynga volition proceed to tally a last Ranked Mode leaderboard for players to vie successful and tally each battlefields and crippled modes successful rotation.

And then, connected October 1, online servers volition officially unopen down, and Star Wars: Hunters volition nary longer beryllium playable beyond this point.

There’s nary notation of the PC version, which was announced to motorboat connected Steam successful aboriginal entree signifier this year, successful the shutdown notice. Its Steam leafage present includes a announcement that the crippled is “no longer disposable connected the Steam store.”

Take-Two-owned Zynga is champion known for mobile games FarmVille, Words with Friends, and CSR Racing, but with Star Wars: Hunters it branched retired to console for the archetypal time. Similarly, Star Wars: Hunters was meant to beryllium the archetypal Zynga-published crippled to motorboat connected PC.

“The occurrence of Star Wars: Hunters connected mobile and Nintendo Switch devices has led to our determination to grow the crippled to PC,” said Yaron Leyvan, enforcement vice president, games, astatine Zynga, backmost successful November.

“This is thing our assemblage of fans person been asking for and we are precise excited to invited adjacent much players to Vespaara. This infinitesimal besides marks a milestone for Zynga arsenic we bring 1 of our games to PC for the archetypal time.”

There are inactive a fig of Star Wars video games successful the works, including Respawn Entertainment's 3rd Star Wars Jedi crippled and Bit Reactor's turn-based tactics crippled acceptable to beryllium revealed astatine Star Wars Celebration 2025.

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