Usually, when a live-service recreation is shut down by its writer, the idea is the sport didn’t carry out in some way–usually financially–and that its underwhelming efficiency resulted in its discontinuation. Star Wars Hunters–Zynga’s multiplayer shooter set within the Star Wars universe–is being shut down in October, however regardless of a lower-than-anticipated connect fee, Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau says it was “no failure” in any respect.
Talking with The Game Business, Gibeau stated that the crew at Zynga constructed a “nice tech base” and a “enjoyable recreation” with Hunters, however the recreation didn’t emerge as a “viable enterprise.” Particularly, Gibeau cites an absence of “natural installs from the license” as a contributing think about its imminent discontinuation.
“We had some points with how we may discover the mental property–could you play Darth Vader or may you not? That form of factor,” Gibeau stated. “We ended up with a cross-platform recreation on Change and cellular that ran completely. It was enjoyable. However it did not interact over the long run. And it wasn’t a viable enterprise.”
Gibeau additionally says that ending Hunters will end in one other “shot on objective” with one other IP, solely now with the data and technical base. “The motion shooter class on cellular could be very massive and rising, and we might wish to be there,” Gibeau stated. “Now we have now an Unreal tech base, with some nice leads by way of the engineering, builders and designers…. Now it is taking the learnings from Star Wars Hunters and making use of it to a different shot on objective with one other mental property.”
Zynga first introduced Star Wars Hunters throughout a Nintendo Direct presentation in February 2021. It lastly launched in June 2024, just for Zynga to announce that the sport would stop operations on October 1, 2025–with one closing replace pushed to all customers on April 15. A PC port of the sport was additionally canceled.
Star Wars Hunters remains to be out there now for cellular gadgets and Nintendo Change.