En Masse Entertainment (EME) announced that Kritika Online has been placed into maintenance mode (as of March 6th) in preparation for its service closure on April 30, 2019. EME publishes the North American and European version of the game. The Korean service is still in operation and EME will provide a code for players that logged in between January 1, 2019 and the end of maintenance on March 6, 2019, for a costume/consumable pack they can receive on the Korean server if they sign up for an account and redeem the code by May 31st (*).
Additional details in the announcement: https://kritika.enmasse.com/news/posts/an-announcement-about-kritika-online
(*) – Players who go this route will have to go through the customary hassle of purchasing a verified Korean account UNLESS EME works out something with the developer Allm (highly unlikely they will do actual account transfers and there isn’t anything that can be done to circumvent the account creation process in South Korea where it needs to be phone verified).
This will mark the third game since 2017 that EME has had to shutter (ZMR was closed in October 2017 and A.V.A. Alliance of Valiant Arms in June 2018). This leaves the company publishing just Closers (which has a good probability of meeting the same fate), TERA (for North America), and Breach (which is currently in early access and IMHO, will likely end up like ZMR and A.V.A. down the road). EME used to be a decent publisher but has really dropped off since 2016 when many of the original employees departed (EME Event Specialist Tonka departed in July 2015, TERA CM Minea departed in September 2015, original CEO Chris Lee departed in April 2016, TERA producer Patrick “Treeshark” Sun departed in October 2016 just to name a few).
