Dead Island Epidemic Ending Next Month

The Dead Island: Epidemic website has word that Deep Silver is deep-sixing Dead Island: Epidemic, the Early Access MOBA based on the Dead Island series of zombie games (thanks Diarmid via GG Pocket News). Here's the news, which says the game servers will shut down on October 15th:
Ever since starting with the Closed Alpha, and all the way through the Closed Beta and Open Beta, we’ve received a great amount of useful criticism and encouraging feedback from our players. This has been invaluable for all the teams involved in developing the game.

Over the past weeks and months we’ve been evaluating how to proceed with Dead Island: Epidemic and looking towards the future for the game. We’re sad to announce today that we’ve come to the conclusion to cease further development.

We will be leaving the servers open until the end of October 15th (Pacific Time), during which time we’ll run a very large discount on all characters and boosts to give everyone a chance to spend any remaining currency on characters and items you may have wanted to try before, but never did.

We want to thank everyone for their support, their feedback, and their time playing Dead Island: Epidemic! The game would not have been the same without you.
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Sep 17, 2015, 21:38
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Man... My memory... Was going to say 'Please tell me this means my 20 invites will finally disappear on Steam'... But I forgot I used a bot to get rid of them...
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Sep 17, 2015, 18:35
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Sep 17, 2015, 18:35
 Osc8r
 
It was more like a crappy MMO than a MOBA i.e. levels & gear (which you get OUTSIDE of the PVP arena) gave you a massive advantage over your opponents.

And PVE consisted of grinding the same content over, and over, and over, and over.
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Sep 17, 2015, 17:03
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Sep 17, 2015, 17:03
 
Will they quit sending me Steam invites for their game? I have a few in my inventory, but they keep breeding.
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Sep 17, 2015, 16:23
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Sep 17, 2015, 16:23
 
Rhett wrote on Sep 17, 2015, 16:09:
Soon, they're coming out with a new DLC called The Following, that adds what appears to be a significant amount of content (including a new, completely different zone/terrain).

Which is included in the season pass or something like 14$ separately if I recall correctly.
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Sep 17, 2015, 16:09
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Sep 17, 2015, 16:09
 
PHJF wrote on Sep 17, 2015, 12:21:
NOW GET THESE FUCKING COUPONS OUT OF MY STEAM INVENTORY

Yessssss. Gave this shitty game to everyone I know that didn't have it, and I still have like 7 of these shits in my inventory...

On a similar note, I got Dying Light recently after they both released a demo, and significantly improved performance from launch, and it's quite awesome. A lot better than Dead Island, but clearly based off of it. I believe Techland made, or had their hand in, Dead Island, but branched off on their own. Soon, they're coming out with a new DLC called The Following, that adds what appears to be a significant amount of content (including a new, completely different zone/terrain).
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Sep 17, 2015, 12:21
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Sep 17, 2015, 12:21
 PHJF
 
NOW GET THESE FUCKING COUPONS OUT OF MY STEAM INVENTORY
Steam + PSN: PHJF
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Sep 17, 2015, 11:43
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Sep 17, 2015, 11:43
 
It was a joke ever since they called it a ZOMBA.
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Sep 17, 2015, 11:16
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Sep 17, 2015, 11:16
 
Dying light showed Dead Island how it's done.
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Sep 17, 2015, 10:45
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ochentay4 wrote on Sep 17, 2015, 10:23:
This game was doomed on its inception. Deep Silver screwed the pooch with Dead Island franchise.

Not just that, the whole concept of this game was bad to begin with. They way they went about each mission and how Coop worked just sucked.

I gave up on this game a long time ago after trying to play it with a few friends. We just could get into it. left us feeling Meh!
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This game was doomed on its inception. Deep Silver screwed the pooch with Dead Island franchise.
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