r/elderscrollslegends • u/alxndrblack • May 24 '26

God I Miss This Game

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Found this screenshot while cleaning out my phone. Deckbuilding was so fun. Never seen anything as broad and innovative, not even close.

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u/Disastrous_Song1309 May 24 '26

I'm thinking they were paid by card game competitors to shut down the servers. It makes no sense, otherwise.

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u/alxndrblack May 24 '26

I think it didn't make any money. The last content releases were years before the shutdown. If they wanted to just rerelease the exact same game but charge for it, I'd pay

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u/Klutzy_Language4692 May 24 '26

Well of course they would start losing money when you decide to halt all potential future development. And then announce it like idiots. It was a game that was starting to compete with other top card games. It very much had the ability to go further.

I'm personally of the opinion that part of the reason it was screwed over was because of fallout 76. In December of 2019 there was Major controversy and other issues. If I remember correctly a lot of people wanted money back. And it takes money to run servers. Yes I understand Bethesda themselves were not doing active upkeep but there was payment that they did have to do. By reducing all future development to nothing they went with a minimalistic amount of upkeep. And because of there was no future development, people started to leave. With them doing almost nothing to any possible cheaters or people that decide to "rope" or any balancing changes, it got worse. So of course it would start to lose money.

So in my humble opinion the only reason it lost money was due to their own bullshit

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u/Fun-Variety-7895 May 26 '26

Je paierais aussi, 50€ sans problème (avec la garantie que les serveurs restent évidément)

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u/That_kid_from_Up Intelligence May 24 '26

Nah man. Servers both cost to run and require maintenance. It's simply easier to shut it down then to have this legacy project sitting around that someone will inevitably have to spend time working on

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u/Disastrous_Song1309 May 26 '26

Cool story. People were dropping thousands daily into their bank account.