Black Eye Games, the developer of the medieval MMO Gloria Victis, announced the cessation of work on the game and closing its doors at the end of the current season. According to representatives of the studio, the termination of work is due to "Mostly financial reasons", as well as the fact that the efforts to maintain the game in working condition and its development led to the depletion and burnout of the team.

Gloria Victis entered Steam only in January 2023 – less than a year ago, but before that she was in early access for six years. The development of the game began even earlier, in 2012, and, despite the fact that in that year it was not possible to raise funds on Kickstarter, the team continued to persist, and in 2013 on the Gloriavictisgame website.COM was released pre-alpha version.

Creation and support of MMORPG is one of the most difficult tasks in the development of games, and in an indie command of approximately 15 developers, this is even more difficult, since the services should work around the clock", – wrote the Gloria Victis team on the Steam website. "But the stunning support of our community and good souls from the Polish Gamedev industry helped us overcome all the obstacles that we have encountered in all these years. But nothing can last forever, and after countless thoughts, we are forced to make the most difficult decision. Mainly for financial reasons, since our game has always been niche, which it was very difficult for us to expand without the loss of the identity of the game, and required more and more resources for the development and maintenance of the pace, and due to continuous work without the necessary rest for such long time, which ultimately led to burnout, we will not be able to provide the necessary maintenance of the game for a long time. And, unfortunately, for this reason, the new season will be the last in Gloria Victis. We want to invite you all for the final season, which will end with the closure of servers on October 31, 2023.

According to representatives of the studio, the scale of the infrastructure necessary to launch Gloria Victis means that the transfer of the game to the community to continue the work is not possible: "We studied all possible scenarios, and, unfortunately, it is impossible to create a version that would not require excessive infrastructure to accommodate servers created by players".

Gloria Victis is not the only Black Eye game: it is also responsible for the game with the confusing name Siege Survival: Gloria Victis – a cruel medieval survival game that looked very promising in 2021, and Nadir: a Grimdark Deckbuilder, which caused a more omnivorous reaction, But, despite this, the studio confirmed that it would be closed with MMO Gloria Victis.

We will do our best to support our team, ”the studio wrote. Now we are starting to contact our friends in the industry to find a suitable job for all Gloria Victis developers.