EA was hoping that its MOBA Dawngate would be able to forge its own path in a genre dominated by heavyweights DOTA 2 and League of Legends. Unfortunately, that’s not going to be the case.
In a post on the game’s website, EA’s group general manager Matt Bromberg announced that the project has been cancelled.
“Whenever we begin a game project,” Bromberg writes, “we do so with great hopes and expectations. In this case, we chose to enter a new genre for EA in MOBA, one that we knew going in was extremely competitive. We built a game in Dawngate that wasn’t simply a clone of existing MOBAs, but one that truly pushed the genre forward in many ways.”
Despite a lengthy beta process, including a six-month period of open testing, Bromberg writes that “although the game has grown, we’re not seeing the progress we’d hoped for. This isn’t the outcome we wanted, but beta testing is about learning and improving, and ultimately, about making difficult decisions about how to proceed.”
In this case, that means a cancellation. If you want to check out what might have been, you’ll be able to play developer Waystone Games’ title for the next 90 days. Additionally, any money spent by those in the open beta will be refunded “within the next 10 days”.
