The Cycle: Frontier will shut down on September 27, 2023.

This is sad. They had a good game going there, and you can tell the devs had their heart in the right place. They had serious struggles with cheating early on in their game, which impacted growth and retention of players, but they dealt with it so well they should become industry standard in how to curb cheaters. Unfortunately it wasn't enough. Maybe the game would have been better if it was pay to play instead of free.

Meanwhile, Tarkov is still going, milking their cheaters for revenue, after half-assedly banning them and letting them buy new accounts again...

Wow. TCF is my main game right now. I have been playing it a lot recently. I followed this games development all the way back from the beginning when it was a different game all together. I watched them change direction. I loved the old BR game and I fell in love with TCF all over again when it became an extraction shooter. I am really sad to see it go.

Ahhh, I freaking loved this game (for the two weeks I initially played it).. art style was unique, and the overall vibe was interesting for sure.

Never could get my friends into it, though. Will definitely be sad to see this one go!

Dedicated servers?