Servers offline, devs nowhere to be found.
The Skies Reborn is free to play, a net positive since you won’t have to spend any money to accidentally discover that it is abandonware. The servers don’t work, leaving the player stuck on the connecting page indefinitely. If you check the Steam store page and read reviews and the forums, this problem has been going on since at least December 24. That means the game was up for a little more than a month before shutting down again.
The story elements make it easy to call The Skies Reborn a scam or a smash and grab, but that would imply that something was stolen or even gained from the whole endeavor. The Skies Reborn kicked off with 93 concurrent players and within two days that number dropped to less than 20. I’d be shocked if the game made enough in its six weeks of existence to cover Valve’s $100 minimum withdrawal amount.
They definitely didn’t make enough to cover that sponsored editorial they paid for on MMORPG.com. I have to assume the fake shill accounts were handled in-house. Skies Technologies had “ambitious plans” for The Skies Reborn after launch, including shutting down the servers after six weeks and completely folding under the failure of another botched launch.
The Skies Reborn is a failed attempt at relaunching a previously failed MMO, that crashed because the company building it put more time and effort into the cash shop than a game people would actually want to put money into. By the time it came up for a re-release, The Skies property was so toxic that no amount of fake hype or bribed gaming sites could fix its image.
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