RF Online Has Officially Sunsetted In The West As RedFox’s Licensing Agreement Ends

The western version of RF Online has officially sunsetted due to contract issues with the sci-fi fantasy MMORPG’s current publisher, RedFox Games, and its developer CCR. According to RedFox, they signed a publishing agreement with CCR before it was bought out by Netmarble in 2020 and have exclusively communicated with CCR since then.

Unfortunately, it looks like either CCR, Netmarble, or both companies decided to throw in the towel although RedFox couldn’t confirm or deny the fact. “We are not privy to the decision making of any other parties involved and do not have any inside knowledge regarding the status of any other RF Online services,” said RedFox. “We understand that this news is disappointing to many of you, and we ask that everyone refrain from speculating or vilifying any parties involved.”

RedFox said that they tested several patches over the past two years, tried to rollback the servers to one of the more popular versions, and even looked into rolling out a classic version to keep RF Online alive but none of them ever made it to the live servers and ultimately led to the game’s closure. The studio also confirmed that there are currently no plans to transfer servers and existing account data.

Whether RF Online will be revived in the future, as other classic MMORPGs have been, is anyone’s guess. The Korean version isn’t doing so well either and is now reportedly in maintenance mode. CCR also announced its plans to launch a global “Battle Coin” play-to-earn server in January last year which has yet to materialize, if it’s even happening at all.