Cities XL to shut down MMO features; Cities XL 2011 announced

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Cities XL to shut down MMO features; Cities XL 2011 announced

Posted Jan 27th 2010 11:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: MMO, Simulation

Monte Cristo Games' launch of their city simulator Cities XL last fall had both a single player aspect as well as a MMO feature that allowed for potientially thousands of players to build their cities on a virtual planet. However it appears that there was little interest in an city sim MMO. The game's web site has now announced that due to a lack of subscriptions, the MMO aspect of Cities XL will be shut down on March 8. No new subscribers will be taken after February 1.

A anew FAQ page gives more details on the MMO shut down and how it will affect players of the game. It also reveals that Monte Cristo plans to launch an all new single player online game called Cities XL 2011. Until that game is released the original Cities XL won't be getting any new content updates.

[Via Voodoo Extreme]

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Tags: cities-xl, cities-xl-2011, cities-xl-mmo, monte-cristo, monte-cristo-games

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

People don't want to pay subscriptions for an unfinished game? What a surprise!Posted at 1:04PM on Jan 27th 2010 by ahac

Hey MC listen to your subscribers and players, y bring out a new one and leave unfinished business with this one just to bring out the same thing, this one has alot of potential and gone a few mths later, sounds like alot of money binging to me, if common sense prevailed, you would know that free subscription would get more game sales and subscribers but unfortunately for yourselves another publisher will pounce and beat you to the punch for leaving everyone with a sour taste and no longer buy your productsPosted at 11:44AM on Feb 3rd 2010 by joe

It's not that players didn't want a city sim MMO, it's that Cities XL's MMO component was absolute garbage and didn't come close to justifying a monthly fee.Posted at 11:14AM on Feb 9th 2010 by brilhasti