Project Spark Online Services Shut Down On August 12

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Teeqoz said:

Shadow1980 said:
Honestly, I only downloaded it because it was free and I wanted to see how its map editor worked. It's not really anything great as a game in and of itself, but some of the map creation tools I think would be great additions for map editors in other games. Halo's Forge in particular could definitely benefit from having terrain editor and texture tools, which are similar to those in the map editors in the Far Cry games but overall a bit more user-friendly.

But again we have another digital-only title and a "games as service" title being shut down and removed from sale. I'm assuming that those who already have the game can still use it to create and play their own maps, so it's not rendered completely useless, but it should serve as a reminder of the inherent drawbacks to any game that's digital only and/or is treated as a "service" instead of an actual product. Fortunately Project Spark was free.

It wasn't free from the start though.

I'm pretty sure it was. I downloaded it when it was first released and never paid a penny for it. It did have micro transactions, though. I can look at my account data and tell you exactly which day I got it.