Highguard continues to dominate the headlines, after an ex developer called out gamers and YouTubers for his game's catastrophic failure. The game is having difficulty keeping more than 2,000 concurrent players on Steam just weeks after launch, losing more than 90% of it's player base. Wildlight, the studio that developed and published Highguard, has laid off the majority of their staff, and seems to be operating with a skeleton crew that only exists to keep the game temporarily available.
Now a new wave of panic has spread across social media for the few who are still invested in this game, as the official website for Highguard has been unavailable for the majority of the day. For many users on the official Highguard discord, this seems to signal the beginning of the end for this ill-fated live service title. Some are even discussing purchasing cosmetics just to buy the game more time.
While it is possible that this is just a temporary outage, the lack of any communication from the official Highguard X account or from any of the moderators on Discord would seem to indicate that this is the foreshadowing of what many people have been expecting; Highguard might just suffer the same fate as Sony's Concord, seeing a total shutdown mere weeks after launch.