MMORPG.com has learned that Wolfpack Studios is closing the doors on their MMO Shadowbane as of May 1st, 2009.

Wolfpack Studios and publisher Ubisoft announced today that Shadowbane, the company's MMO that had been running now since March 25th 2003, will be shutting down its severs permanently on May 1st, 2009.

The official announcement on the game's website doesn't offer a specific reason for the closure, but instead chooses to reflect fondly on the game and its players.

When a game closes, we here at MMORPG.com like to mark its passing by taking a look at just how many days the game has been online. Recently, many of the cancellation numbers have borne low day counts, so it is a triumph of sorts that we report Shadowbane's legacy included an impressive 2253 days in Aerynth.

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No0o0o0o0o0o0o00o :(

Was a real classic game.

Best video game i have ever played.  Unfortunately, SB ruined every other MMO for me.  Nothing else is riveting enough to keep me entertained more than a week or two. 

Sad day in MMOville.  Hopefully Stray Bullet Games can get their own MMO developed asap.

My first MMO....../sigh

I tried this game once, even though i did'nt get too into it. It had the fine makins of a good game, its a shame the developers gave up on it and didnt try to improve it .

I guess we all owe shadowbane /salute !!

For those that played Treachery:

History of Treachery - Start to Finish

 I enjoyed it, sucks it's gonna be gone. I actually downloaded the game again a few days ago but the servers were down for a few days, finally went back up and I kept crashing. Ahh, byebye Shadowbane.

Repeat of a thread from earlier, but sad indeed.  One of the most fun experiences I had in MMO's, despite the numersous technical difficulties.  You know it's good if you play through the stuff that happened when it was released like I did!

Farewell SB.  You have a place in my heart next to UO.

*sniff*

I really had some good times playing Shadowbane.

RIP, the game gave a lot of peole some good times.

 Yeah this sucks considering i never tried this game earlier considering i just started playing like 5 days ago and then they announce that it's shutting down on may 1st.  I was really looking forward to getting pretty involved with this game but now i can't :(.  

about time this turd got flushed...

The only mmo in the history of mmos to get pvp right. (not the act of pvp, but the reasons for pvp that the game mechanics produced) Now dies.

Because of the technical problems of the game, so few mmo fans will ever know just how bloody amazing pvp in an mmo can be. Come to think of it, neither will mmo developers...

R.I.P. PVP

In my mind this was truly one of the great ones

the pvp fights

even better the gvg fights

the multitude of races

the mutitude of professions

an almost unlimited number of viable character builds

no major leveling grind

no major reliance on chance for elite drops

Just get down to bussiness and Battle your favorite enemy.

yes the graphics are old and the game engine buggy but I will miss shadowbane and have no idea what I will find to hold my interest for more than a week or 2 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s&feature=related

I liked Shadowbane. Not as much as some of you, but I liked it.

Sad to see it finally kick the bucket.

To those of you that didn't play this game...

 The most intricate race/class/profession/discipline system ever.

The most thrilling pvp ever.

The highest learning curve ever.

The hardest mmorpg to top EVER.

Definatly the most thrilling game of all time. Ever been in a battle against 50 people? Thats fun. Against 500... Thats Shadowbane.

This game had it all, you could solo it as an assassin, ranger, scout, theif, ect... hope for the kill and the quick get away with that +40 int rune, whether you needed it or not, its worth at least 2mill (a whole city could be bought for the same price some times). You could small group it, big group it, mine fights, or banes... then the complete economic side, buy, sell, trade.

All I have left on my computer is a picture from the bane to rid Thurin of CN once and for all...

There where about 1500 people in this area, mostly inside the walls. We where defending the banestone from attack.

Ahh shadowbane, you will be missed.

I loved the charcter race's, where else am I going to get to play a centaur in armour?