The web servers for MultiVersus formally shut down as we speak, bringing an finish to Warner Bros Video games’ crossover Smash Bros rival.
The writer introduced again in January that the sport’s fifth season can be its final, working from February 5 to Might 30.
At the moment at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm BST, the sport will go offline and will likely be delisted from the PlayStation Retailer, Microsoft Retailer, Steam and Epic Games Store.
The sport will nonetheless be playable offline, however provided that gamers have logged in any time since February 4 and it shutting down later as we speak.
“After logging in, an area save file will likely be mechanically created linked to your PlayStation Community, Microsoft Retailer, Steam, or Epic Video games Retailer account, permitting you to benefit from the sport offline with all earned and bought content material transferring ahead,” Warner Bros Video games stated.
Actual cash transactions have been unavailable for the reason that announcement of the sport’s closure, however gamers with remaining Gleamium forex and character tokens can proceed to spend them on in-game content material till the sport goes offline.
Gamers won’t be refunded for any Gleamium or different content material bought with actual cash.
“This determination was not made frivolously,” a message on the sport’s FAQ web page reads. “All of us on the Participant First Video games and Warner Bros Video games groups have put our coronary heart and soul into MultiVersus, creating a novel social and cooperative expertise from the bottom up that brings collectively quite a lot of well-liked characters and worlds.
“We’re very pleased with the sport we’ve constructed and are extremely grateful for the assist of the MultiVersus group all through this journey. Your ardour and enthusiasm have been unmatched.”
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— MultiVersus (@multiversus) January 31, 2025
Gamers have continued to voice their considerations on the method the sport has been closed down, with some complaining that the Founder’s Packs – significantly the $99.99 Premium Founder’s Pack – initially launched in the course of the sport’s first run in 2022 included character unlock tokens, however the sport will now finish earlier than sufficient characters have been launched to spend all of them.
That is technically the second time MultiVersus has shut down. The sport was successful when it initially launched in July 2022, seeing 153,433 concurrent gamers on Steam at its peak. The participant base rapidly dwindled, nevertheless, and the sport was closed down for nearly a 12 months.
It returned on the finish of Might 2024 and hit a peak of over 114,000 concurrent gamers, however this too dropped resulting in as we speak’s everlasting shutdown.
