Niantic is discontinuing development on Catan: World Explorers. Announced within the , the studio had but to launch the sport formally, and it was solely out there in early entry in choose markets exterior of the US. Later right now, Niantic plans to take away World Explorers from the App Store earlier than shutting down the servers that energy the sport on November 18th, making it unplayable thereafter. With right now’s announcement, the augmented actuality title is not going to roll out to extra nations, and Niantic has eliminated all in-app purchases from the expertise.

It’s not clear what precisely went flawed with growth nevertheless it seems scope creep might have performed an element in Niantic’s choice to cancel the mission. “We had a vision for trading, harvesting and building up the world in seasonal play and resetting the board each month, just like you do for each new game you play at home,” the corporate stated in a weblog put up noticed by . “But attempting to adapt such a well-designed board sport to a worldwide, location-based Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) sport was a tricky problem.”

Niantic notes that classes it realized whereas engaged on World Explorers will go on to tell future initiatives. However, it’s onerous to say what the cancellation will imply for the corporate’s different video games. Following the , a wide range of corporations have partnered with Niantic to create comparable AR experiences utilizing their very own properties. More notable examples embody and . Those similar corporations might now understand replicating the success of Pokémon Go is probably not as straightforward as they initially thought it was.