America’s Army, the controversial US Military-developed multiplayer sport, is shutting down after 20 years. Its newest iteration, America’s Army: Proving Grounds, will go offline later this yr, and no additional titles within the collection have been introduced. The sport will proceed to perform on personal servers for PC, however on-line will probably be fully unavailable for these on PlayStation.
When is America’s Military: Proving Grounds shutting down?
The America’s Military: Proving Grounds servers will shut down on Might 5, 2022. After that date, the sport will obtain no official assist. The Military will discontinue all providers for it on PSN, and solely the restricted single-player options will probably be accessible.
The official blog post asserting the sport’s shutdown ended with:
Thanks to everybody who performed AA:PG, and thanks to those that nonetheless take pleasure in it. Whereas assist and servers are nonetheless energetic, we encourage you to dive into matches together with your battle buddies and proceed the mission.
Extra particulars will probably be shared as info turns into accessible, so please keep tuned.
Nevertheless, it appears unlikely that the collection will proceed. When model 1.0 was launched lower than a yr after the 9/11 assaults, the army loved appreciable public assist. Since then, the Conflict on Terror has develop into a PR catastrophe solely barely much less damaging to the federal government’s picture than the Vietnam Conflict. As such, curiosity in America’s Military declined, and it’s been frequently criticized as a recruiting instrument.
In its protection, America’s Military did innovate in a number of methods. It was one of many first high quality free-to-player shooters, which helped it garner a big viewers early on. It was additionally one of many first video games to enchantment to the milsim crowd.
So far as we all know, the supply code for America’s Military remains to be unavailable. Nevertheless, because it was developed utilizing public funding, we’ll seemingly see that info printed someday after the sport goes offline. That ought to enable its remaining fanbase to proceed supporting it, no less than on PC.
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