Hellgate ends with a whimper
Despite last hour grandstanding by Korean publisher, HanbitSoft, Hellgate: London closed its North American and European servers at midnight CST, February 1, 2009. The picture above is a screen shot taken by a player moments before the servers stopped service with an unknown network error.
I checked up on the HellgateLondon.com site shortly after the servers officially shutdown and noticed that Bandai Namco had also shut down their forums. Requests to the Hellgate site and forums returned a DNS error. Some players held to hopes that an announcement from HanbitSoft was forthcoming that they were resuming service shortly. Alas, that announcement never came and for all their posturing, it appears that HanbitSoft was more bark than bite.
Read more about the last moments of Hellgate:London and player reactions at hellforge.gameriot.
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