Despite the memes, Highguard was never truly "Concord 2". It was, however, a niche multiplayer shooter that wasn't allowed the opportunity to grow or recover. How many of your favourite games would be dead and gone today if merely afforded the grace that was offered to Wildlight's maiden outing?
Unless ex-Yakuza developer Toshiro Nagoshi can drum up the money to buy back his new game and studio from NetEase, the money runs out in May.
Make bad game? Layoffs. Make good game? Layoffs. Make best selling game of the year? Believe it or not, also layoffs.
Short and simple: Everything you might want to do at level 90. And a few things you really should.
Twenty years of building an audience, curating features and developing a content style. Surely that means something? How about ripe pickings for a parasite to destroy all that in a few mere months to serve "iGaming" and the casino gods??