Legacy of Kain Spinoff Nosgoth Cancelled
It’s with a heavy heart that we report that Square Enix’s Legacy of Kain free-to-play multiplayer spin-off Nosgoth has been cancelled. It spent several months in open beta, but will now never see a full release. It was being developed by Psyonix, the makers of Rocket League, and all servers will close on 31st May 2016. Sigh.
The announcement was made via the game’s official forum, and the reasons for the cancellation are vague to say the least. They say that “ultimately its audience hasn’t grown enough to sustain ongoing operations”, which I guess is corporate talk for “we won’t make enough money from it.” There haven’t been any Legacy of Kain games for 13 years, and this does not bode well for the future of the series. We were really looking forward to Nosgoth, and we even interviewed the developers, so this is crushing news to us.
Since Square Enix purchased Eidos Interactive back in 2009, they’ve become increasingly greedy and confused about how to handle the franchises of the British publisher. This includes the fact that late into its development, they forced Danish developer IO Interactive to chop up the latest Hitman game into episodic installments as a way to make a profit before the full game could even be released. Clearly they felt that Nosgoth would not have been a bankable enough endeavour, and that’s a damn shame for the fans who had anticipated the game since its announcement more than two years ago.
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