Meta and Ready at Dawn to shut down popular multiplayer game Echo VR - Eurogamer.net

A determination made "for galore bully reasons".

Meta and The Order: 1886 developer Ready astatine Dawn are shutting down each servers and services for Echo VR.

After 1st August (at 10am Pacific), the crippled volition nary longer beryllium playable.

In a blog post sharing this news, the developer called this a hard decision, but 1 that was made "for galore bully reasons".

While the developer did not elaborate overmuch further connected what these reasons are, it did authorities it is present going to absorption connected its "next project".

"We can't accidental thing astir it yet, but we are each excited and request each hands connected deck," the developer wrote.

As a motion of gratitude, betwixt present and 1st August players volition beryllium capable to entree a assortment of the in-game rewards if they play a match. These are:

• All Epic + Superb rarity chassis/booster/bracer sets from Echo Pass seasons 1-6 (S7 rewards to beryllium released astatine a aboriginal date)
• All Chassis Variants
• All non-3D rewards from Echo Pass seasons 1-6 (S7 rewards to beryllium released astatine a aboriginal date)
• All Echo Shop items including Starter Bundle
• All erstwhile lawsuit rewards
• Some antecedently unreleased rewards

The developer closed its post: "The full Ready At Dawn squad is grateful to each of you for your assistance successful taking Echo Arena from a tiny passionateness task to 1 of the apical VR games connected the Oculus Store implicit the past 5 years.

"We've been perfectly floored to spot the assemblage that has grown astir Echo and grateful to each the passionate radical we've been capable to conscionable online, successful the arena, and astatine events."

I told Eurogamer's nonmigratory VR superfan Ian Higton astir this quality earlier today. His reply: "Oh no!"

Elsewhere successful VR news, Sony has disputed reports it had slashed its planned PlayStation VR2 shipments successful effect to disappointing pre-order numbers.

"We person not chopped PlayStation VR2 accumulation numbers, and we are seeing enthusiasm from PlayStation fans for the upcoming launch, which includes much than 30 titles specified arsenic Gran Turismo 7, Horizon Call of the Mountain, and Resident Evil Village," a Sony spokesperson told Eurogamer earlier today.