{"id":14779,"date":"2018-03-09T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/315403"},"modified":"2018-03-09T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T21:03:00","slug":"happy-wars-shutting-down-xbox-360-and-pc-servers-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/09\/happy-wars-shutting-down-xbox-360-and-pc-servers-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Wars shutting down Xbox 360 and PC servers this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Happy Wars<\/em>\u00a0dev\u00a0Toylogic announced on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HappyWars\/status\/971856895051956224\">Twitter yesterday<\/a> that it will be ending\u00a0its service for\u00a0Xbox 360 and Windows 10 marketplaces beginning\u00a0June 14 2018, but will still be active\u00a0on the Xbox One.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decision\u00a0to pull <em>Happy Wars<\/em> from the two platforms was made after six years of service on the Xbox 360. Maintaining an online server\u00a0for any game can be expensive, and after a while devs have to consider if the cost is worth it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2018\/3\/8\/17096894\/happy-wars-shutdown-xbox-360-windows-pc\">by Polygon<\/a>, the shutdown will occur\u00a0on December 17, 2018. Players have until March 15\u00a0to transfer Happy Tickets (the game&#8217;s\u00a0currency which can be purchased with real money)\u00a0to the Xbox One, where the game is still active.<\/p>\n<p><em>Happy War&#8217;s<\/em> in-game events will be continue on Xbox 360 and PC until June 13 2018, with the Xbox One version\u00a0continuing to host new in-game events after that date.<\/p>\n<p>Players can find more detail about the shutdown on the game&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/support.happywars.net\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360000023121\">FAQ page<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Wars\u00a0dev\u00a0Toylogic announced on\u00a0Twitter yesterday that it will be ending\u00a0its service for\u00a0Xbox 360 and Windows 10 marketplaces beginning\u00a0June 14 2018, but will still be active\u00a0on the Xbox One.\u00a0 The decision\u00a0to pull Happy Wars from the two platforms was made after six years of service on the Xbox 360. Maintaining an online server\u00a0for any game can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}