$1M Kickstarted MMORPG Pathfinder Online Shutting Down In November

Pathfinder Online, Paizo’s Kickstarted sandbox MMORPG, will be closing its doors in November following a rough couple of years for both the game and its developers. The game’s Kickstarter campaign managed to secure just over $1 million back in 2012 although developer Goblinworks struggled with the game’s development which eventually led to mass layoffs at the studio in 2015. The game transitioned to full release in May 2020 but apparently that wasn’t enough to keep the game alive.

The good news is that the team will be continuing the game’s storyline right until the end with a final battle against Nhur Athemon’s Chosen.

“A little over six and a half years ago, Pathfinder Online launched into Early Enrollment and Pharasma’s Chosen began settling the Echo Wood. Since then, just as the Gray Lady’s intervention allowed the heroes of the Echo Wood to escape death over and over again, the amazing support from all our wonderful backers and players allowed our tiny team to stay online and keep improving the game year after year.

It has been a privilege to see this world and this story brought to life through the dedicated players adventuring in it, but now the epic finale of Pathfinder Online draws near. In October, Nhur Athemon’s own Chosen will arrive to finish the war between death and undeath, with both the story of Pharasma’s Chosen and the online world they adventure in scheduled to end at Daily Maintenance on November 28. After that, the servers won’t be coming back up.”

The team, however, admitted that they might not even be able to keep the servers running until the sunset date. “The servers are getting quite old, and we won’t be able to switch over to the cloud before then,” they explained.

Paizo also announced that they will be offering refunds for recently purchased in-game items. More information can be found on the Pathfinder official site.