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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Project Spark Online Services Shut Down On August 12

After much consideration, Microsoft and Team Dakota have decided to discontinue support for “Project Spark.”

Starting 5/13/16, “Project Spark” will no longer be available for download on the Xbox Marketplace or Windows Store. For existing users of “Project Spark,” online services will be unavailable after 8/12/16. Without services, players will no longer be able to download user-generated content or upload their own creations. If you want to access user-generated content offline, you will need to download this content prior to 8/12/16. Be sure to download your favorite community creations and your own uploads if they are not saved locally. We’re also aware that after transitioning “Project Spark” to be a free incubation engine last fall, that some players might still have purchased the game at retail, and have outlined steps about obtaining a credit for those players below.

This was an extremely difficult decision for our team that we do not take lightly. When "Project Spark" transitioned away from active development last fall, many of our team members moved to other projects within Microsoft Studios. While this means there have been no layoffs at Microsoft, it also means it’s simply no longer feasible to continue the behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping “Project Spark” up and running with meaningful updates and bug fixes, so we have come to this hard decision.

Despite this news, we want to celebrate the accomplishments of our team and community of creators and players. Our team released 46 content packs, thousands of assets and 16 updates since launch (averaging more than one update every two months). We produced hundreds of livestreams and videos to educate and celebrate our community. In turn, our passionate fans have then gone above and beyond supporting “Project Spark” by uploading hundreds of thousands of creations and dreaming up millions of objects, behaviors, and experiences. Outside the game, they created fan sites, tutorials, forums, apps, and more! We thank everyone who has played or created anything within “Project Spark,” as it would have never existed without you.

As mentioned earlier, for players who purchased and redeemed the “Project Spark Starter Kit” sold in retail outlets will receive a credit to their Microsoft account. If you purchased and redeemed the code inside a retail copy of “Project Spark” after Oct. 5, 2015 and before today, you will receive a credit that can be used to purchase content in the Xbox or Windows store. Credits will be granted automatically to eligible customers. For more information, please visit http://xbox.com/spark.

We can’t thank our creators and players enough. It’s been an incredible journey to share with you all!

Thomas Gratz
Community Manager

http://forums.projectspark.com/yaf_postst214854.aspx



 

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Well this isn't a good message...



Man, it's been a terrible year for MS and their projects so far.

Project Spark never seemed like it was quite there quality wise and went completely off the map after release, so this isn't a surprise.



Game was horrible and bland.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gWECYYOSo

Please Watch/Share this video so it gets shown in Hollywood.

Out of touch. Keyword for Microsoft game development.

What do they have left? That thing with the headphones guy commanding dragons looks cool, but will not sell anything since Platinum games are niche. Fable Legends was such a miscalculation to even greenlight it, horrible! Quantum Break flopped.

What else they got? Gears of War is obsolete. Crackdown 3 looks like shit and sales will be hurt when it's revealed that the cloud feature gimmick was a fake and doesn't help the game much. Sea of Thieves will be a flop of enormous proportions in relation to its high development cost.

What else exclusives are in the pipeline?

Xbox is in huge trouble. I'm afraid it will be deleted soon.

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Signalstar said:
Game was horrible and bland.

And very, VERY hyped.



Damn, I never got to try it. It wouldn't download on windows 8.1, always stuck on preparing. Can't get it now on XBox one either. MS games as a service vision has failed.



Slimebeast said:

Out of touch. Keyword for Microsoft game development.

What do they have left? That thing with the headphones guy commanding dragons looks cool, but will not sell anything since Platinum games are niche. Fable Legends was such a miscalculation to even greenlight it, horrible! Quantum Break flopped.

What else they got? Gears of War is obsolete. Crackdown 3 looks like shit and sales will be hurt when it's revealed that the cloud feature gimmick was a fake and doesn't help the game much.

What else exclusives are in the pipeline?

Xbox is in huge trouble. I'm afraid it will be deleted soon.

I also like to think that their starting point where they ruined the console's image was a major fuckup that is still around today despite what could be said. The ahrdware also being another issue doesn't help either.

I'm starting to wonder just what they are they going to do about all this mess because things on the PC side for them aren't exactly amazingly stellar either despite people going on about it's worldwide casual adoption rate (by non gamers which always add to the base numbers of the OS).

I just wish they'd support their previous and still exsting OS's because I would be buying those ports if they had held up and weren't locked down so tight. I mean this gen I don't want their box and I certainly don't want their OS, I don't know how they are going to grab a whole load of others like me though as they don't want to drop what guns they have left.



Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see

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AEGRO said:
Signalstar said:
Game was horrible and bland.

And very, VERY hyped.

No, it wasn't.



Teeqoz said:
AEGRO said:

And very, VERY hyped.

No, it wasn't.

Ditto to that:

Just about 2 years ago.



Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see

So pay up motherfuckers you belong to "V"