I only happened to come across this announcement by accident since I stopped playing and following their progress back in September.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/838330/allnews/
My review for this game said it all back in September so I can’t say that this isn’t surprising (except that it didn’t manage to be shutdown sooner). The above also exemplifies the non-sequitur decision making that plagued the game even in Korea (it shutdown shortly before the western version launched on Steam Early Access). I covered this game for a short bit here (I received a free key); my conclusion was that the team in Korea handling this were too incompetent for their own good.
I stopped playing because even their updates and events made no sense. The Korean development team also completely ignored the player feedback that took place during the early access period.
Equally confounding is their entire service closure; so one month prior to service shutdown is when they will make the game go F2P while this announcement came on March 28th (which is when the game should’ve immediately transitioned to F2P). I’m wondering if this will finally be the nail in the coffin for ELOA (the origin of this game when Playwith acquired the IP after the original developer NPICSoft, shutdown). Actually, it would not surprise me if Playwith attempts to peddle this off to an asset flipper…
