Magic: Legends is closing down permanently in October

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After a tumultuous and largely disappointing open beta, action RPG Magic: Legends volition be closing pull down for good on October 31, 2021. In an announcement posted connected the game's official Twitter account, executive producer Steve Ricossa aforementioned that the Magic: The Gathering RPG "missed the mark" and that its put-up Steam and comfort versions are at once cancelled. Players who gone money on Wizard: Legends' microtransactions volition represent receiving a full repayment, whether they paid through the Epic Games Store or the Arc rocket launcher.

"Our vision for Magic: Legends uncomprehensible the mark," Ricossa wrote, "merely we are too big for one's breeches of what we achieved. Thanks to Wizards of the Coast, we got to bring the erectile Magic: The Gathering Multiverse to a open audience and explore late angels within the established ARPG music genre."

Information technology's always doleful to see a unfilmed-service game shutting its doors for good, but I'm non sure how many players will be upset (or surprised) about the end of Legends. Right from launch, Magic: Legends was criticized for its heavy-handed microtransactions, poor performance, production quality, and design.

Sean "Day[9]" Plott, who is a senior face in the Magic setting, was peculiarly critical of Magic: Legends' approach to the ARPG genre when the beta launched. "It's not that the courageous lacks interesting decisions, it lacks decisions," he said at the time. "I off my buttons on cooldown. I do not manage mana. In that location was no point in the eldest three hours that I managed mana, period. I really think that the current carrying out of the deck and how that works in combat feels equal an anti-system. IT feels like it hurts the gameplay rather than creating something new and unemotional and fun."

Despite some patches and updates, information technology seems like developer Cryptic Studios was never able to turn things around. Players will have until October 31, 2021 to continue playing, but the cash shop is being stripped out straight off and those premium items will instead become ready for purchase with the in-halting currency.

This page has an FAQ with more details connected how players can obtain refunds through and through the Epic Games Store or Electric arc launcher.

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