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Extraction shooter The Cycle: Frontier is shutting down because it’s “not financially viable"Cheaters have been a persistent problem
Cheaters have been a persistent problem
Image credit:Yager
Image credit:Yager
Free-to-play extraction shooterThe Cycle: Frontieris shutting down servers and going offline on September 27th, developers Yager have announced. “Despite our best efforts and meaningful improvements brought to the game since launch,” they wrote in a Steam blog post, “the reality is that The Cycle: Frontier is unfortunately not financially viable,” leading to the game’s shutdown twelve months after launch.
Should You Give The Cycle: Frontier A Try? Yes. It’s Very Good.Watch on YouTube
Should You Give The Cycle: Frontier A Try? Yes. It’s Very Good.
In that sameSteam blog, the team look back on the game’s successful launch and the problems that lead to its eventual sunset. After going semi-viral with big streamers, The Cycle had a pretty successful launch when “players started flocking en masse.” The problems started shortly after when an increasing number of cheaters targeted the shooter.
It’s a shame, as those of us who did play it in the RPS Treehouse had a good time with it. Our Ollie said it “makes you really care about whether you live or die,” in hisbonus game of the yearpicks at the end of 2022, “combining the intense competition of a battle royale with the ‘oh god I have such good stuff on me, don’t let me die here please’ feeling that I’ve traditionally only ever got from thebest survival games.”
You can download The Cycle: Frontier onSteamuntil servers shut down on September 27th. After that date, the developers will shift focus “to new projects using all the valuable experience, learnings, and feedback we’ve gathered”.
