So now a decent period of time has passed since the game announced its closure and apart from the fact that there still isn't anything even half as good as New World which is just frustrating, but besides that, I still don't get one thing.
I'm still super confused about the timing of when they announced the closure of the game. Expansion released 3 weeks prior, New World been pretty much back to its peak. Even if they did nothing, no changes, no expansions, minimal communication, they probably could have retained a player base for at least 3-6 months after , people would still be buying skins, buying battle passes etc.. but why kill the game 3 weeks post expansion when the game was really populated again?
It just really confusses me from a business model perspective , because even if they New they wanted to shutdown, why do it almost straight away after a new expansion. Why bother with the expansion in the first place ? And since you've already done the expansion then why not let the community come to a halt itself and take all the money you can get through the process? Why would you completely shut down any income you still could have made back 3 weeks after the expansion? Was is basically the cost of staff ? Because they are running servers anyway so it's not like their saving money on that?
It was just one of the most bizarre events I ever saw for a mmo.