{"id":58030,"date":"2018-10-26T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/329475"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T17:44:00","slug":"edge-case-games-ends-development-of-free-to-play-fractured-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/26\/edge-case-games-ends-development-of-free-to-play-fractured-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Edge Case Games ends development of free-to-play Fractured Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edge Case Games is ending development of its free-to-play game <em>Fractured Space <\/em>and phasing out the game\u2019s premium currency as a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/games\/310380\/announcements\/detail\/1696062196955193937\">developer\u2019s post on Steam<\/a> doesn\u2019t dive into the circumstances leading up to the decision, noting instead that moving on from <em>Fractured Space<\/em> will give the team the opportunity to pursue new projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The free-to-play game launched on Steam in 2016 and the team has since been supporting the project through additional updates and DLC. Edge Case maintains that the game itself will stay online \u201cfor the foreseeable future,\u201d leaving the game space sim playable even as development winds down.<\/p>\n<p>The developer has already pulled the game\u2019s DLC from sale, and says that the game\u2019s next and final update will remove the premium \u201cplatinum\u201d purchasable currency from the game entirely and sell all items that would\u2019ve required platinum for the regular in-game \u201ccredits\u201d currency instead.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fractured Space<\/em> unfortunately follows in the footsteps of several other online games that have lost support just recently. <em>Splash Damage <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/329001\/Splash_Damage_ends_Dirty_Bomb_live_development.php\">ended development<\/a> for its free-to-play Dirty Bomb last week, saying that the costs of creating new DLC and features for the game were too high for the actual return.\u00a0<em>WildStar<\/em> dev Carbine Studios was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/325986\/NCSoft_shuts_down_WildStar_dev_Carbine_Studios.php\">entirely shut down<\/a> by parent company NCSoft in September and its flagship game was put to rest weeks later. Another space sim was met with trouble earlier this month as well, as news emerged that the developer Six Foot <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/328955\/Six_Foot_lays_off_nearly_one_third_of_dev_team_following_Dreadnought_Steam_launch.php\">laid off as many as 45 developers<\/a> following the quieter-than-expected Steam launch of\u00a0Dreadnaught.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edge Case Games is ending development of its free-to-play game Fractured Space and phasing out the game\u2019s premium currency as a result.\u00a0 The developer\u2019s post on Steam doesn\u2019t dive into the circumstances leading up to the decision, noting instead that moving on from Fractured Space will give the team the opportunity to pursue new projects.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58030","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\/58030","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=58030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}