Core Online website has the minimalist announcement that "Core Online is discontinued," revealing an end to Square Enix's beta online game portal. They refer those with further questions about this to this support page where there's an indication that this actually shut down a couple of months ago: "Core®Online was released as an experiment to see what demand there would be for HD games played via the browser. However, due to limited commercial take-up of this initiative, Core®Online closed on Friday 29th November 2013." They also say there are no plans to reopen the and that users with unexpired memberships as of the closing should have received full refunds for their most recent payments. Thanks VideoGamer.