Barely two years and three expansions later, Turtle Rock Studios is ending post-launch content support for Back 4 Blood.
Back 4 Blood was billed as the next big thing, being the spiritual successor to the iconic co-op zombie shooter, Left 4 Dead. True enough, it retained several of the elements that made Left 4 Dead so popular, including a handful of developers that worked on the initial demo that later became Left 4 Dead. Back 4 Blood even featured an expanded storyline and could've gone on forever had it been popular. But, it wasn't.
Although it wasn't necessarily a bad game, players quickly lost interest in Back 4 Blood after its first couple of months on the market. Subsequent content updates, including the latest one, River of Blood, would give audiences a reason to come back.
Unfortunately, in a market filled with online titles with weekly updates like League of Legends and Fortnite, the quarterly release of expansions of Back 4 Blood just couldn't keep up.
Back 4 Blood now joins several other live-service titles that promised an endless stream of updates only to fall short of their promises en route to being shut down. Before Back 4 Blood, games such as Marvel's Avengers and Apex Legends Mobile were shut down by their respective developers.