5 MMOs that will die in 2022 and 5 that died in 2021

2022 has dawned and this year various MMOs will disappear again. In the latest episode of the MeinMMO podcast, we talk about which ones will be and which ones were in 2021.

In the latest episode of the podcast, we tell you which MMOs you won’t be playing anymore. Because as much as we always feel sorry for multiplayer games and their fans, they sometimes go under.

An MMO can fail for a variety of reasons. Sometimes there are problems with publishers and financing, sometimes the development team falls apart, sometimes the players are simply missing. In this podcast, Leya, Alex and Schuhmann discuss them for each individual game.

The podcast is based on two articles written by MeinMMO’s MMORPG editor Alexander Leitsch:

Here you get an overview of which games are specifically discussed in the podcast.

These 5 MMOs died in 2021:

• Kingdom under Fire 2 – an MMORPG that wanted to stand out within the genre with Real Time Strategy
• Magic Legends – an action role-playing game based on the famous trading card game Magic: The Gathering
• Astellia – a classic theme park MMORPG from Asia
• Defiance 2050 – an open-world MMO that was also a sci-fi shooter. In fact, it was revolutionary for its time
• Battleborn – a colorful MOBA shooter

These 5 MMOs will die in 2022

• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite – an AR game for smartphones, which is the spiritual successor of the extremely successful Pokémon GO
• Crowfall – a hardcore PvP MMORPG set in a crumbling world
• Heroes of Newerth – a MOBA that originally competed with League of Legends
• Elyon – a PvP MMORPG from Asia reminiscent of TERA
• Riders of Republic – a sports MMO by Ubisoft

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