Exophase.com writes, "We recently had the chance to catch up with Jared Gerritzen, designer on Blacklight: Retribution and head of Zombie Studios. For the uninitiated, Blacklight: Retribution is a multiplayer-focused, sci-fi FPS effort published by the free-to-play gurus at Perfect World. What’s exciting about Blacklight is that it blurs the line between F2P and a product you’d fork over $50-60 for. From our time with it we walked away quite impressed – and the high production values are only amplified by the fact that it is using modern tech like DX11."
Blacklight Retribution PS4 operations will continue without official support but the game's PC version has been shut down.
Shut the servers down but let people host their own and keep these games active for those who want to play. Its bullshit when they kill a game completely when they could easy patch it for hosting / creating online content
Hardsuit Labs has mentioned that the Blacklight Retribution servers are shutting down on March 11 for PC, though PS4 version will continue as is. All items in the PC store are now free.
Remember playing this when I first got a ps4. Never good news to see games shut down I guess one day online only games can bite the dust
This is why buying into these sort of games are a bad idea.
That's like saying buying cod at 60 is bad..cause you know a new version is coming and you won't play last years
Not even slightly the same. I can still play Modern Warfare 2 because, guess what, it still works online AND it has offline modes. This applies to I think every Call of Duty game.
With Blacklight, everything you've ever purchased is gone forever after the servers are gone, and you can never play the game again.
Is there no other f2p games.....Apex legends just came out..play the new version
See this is why online mp only games effing sucks and definitely will never support them. ;)
Depending how much of a cult following it has, it could be revived by some mod team in the distant future. Similar cases have happened with games like 2142 and Star Wars Galaxies.
Blacklight Retribution review with screenshots and videos.
Once BlackLight: Retribution makes it's initial investment back plus some profit I'm 100% sure they will switch over to Steam.
BL:R is gonna provide a lot of new content monthly and will be a great FPS to jump in and out of at any time.