Blame European bureaucrats.

Remember Mirage: Arcane Warfare? Torn Banner’s followup to the Chivalry series? The one that never, really, quite found an audience? Well, its servers are going offline May 31 thanks to Europe’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations). Torn Banner released the following statement on their forums:

Mirage: Arcane Warfare will be removed from sale on Steam (and third party marketplaces) within the next week.

We have made this change in part due to the new European Union privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), that comes into effect May 25, 2018. We unfortunately have run out of options for keeping Mirage alive.

Official servers will remain running until May 31. Players will continue to be able to host their own public or private servers after this point.

Thank you for your support and for enjoying Mirage’s journey up to now. We look forward to seeing you in our future titles. Our other games, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior, will not be affected.

– Torn Banner Studios

The GDPR is, in essence, a tightening of European privacy laws; it requires very stringent protection from services with little flexibility. The problem, and not just for small game developers but other online services, is that becoming compliant with the new regulations is financially impossible for smaller businesses, and outright hostile to larger ones.

On the plus side, at least the Chivalry games will be okay. Mirage: Arcane Warfare, however, will be forced to ride into the sunset. At least you have a little time left to play around with the game that never really made it, though.

~F~

Source: PC Gamer

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