Knockout City and Crossfire X are the latest live service titles confirmed to be shutting down

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There’s been a lot of news of live service games that are shutting down, with Knockout City and CrossfireX being the latest titles added to the pile.

Earlier this week, Velan Studios announced that its dodgeball brawler Knockout City would be wrapping up after Season 9, with global servers being shuttered June 6. Velan Studios announced the news in a blog post, writing, “This was an extremely difficult decision for us, but a necessary and important one for our studio… Despite over 12 million players and billions of KOs around the globe, there are several aspects of the game in need of major disruption to better attract and retain enough players to be sustainable. Since we are a small, indie studio, it’s simply impossible for us to make those kinds of systemic changes in the live game while continuing to support it.”

The post goes on to explain that after coming to terms with all of this, it took a step back and will take everything it learned to work on “exploring new possible experiences for Knockout City and other games and products.” Important to note is that as of February 28, all real-money transactions will be removed from the game, so you won’t be able to buy Holobux, the deluxe bundle, or either of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles bundles on any platform. But Season 9, dropping the same day, will have lots of XP, style chips, and “thousands of Holobux,” to make up for it.

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