It’s been a tumultuous road for Highguard and its developer Wildlight Entertainment, and a couple of abnormalities online have observers believe the online first-person shooter is not long for this world. Less than a week after layoffs at Wildlight, the official Highguard website went offline, eliciting speculation that it’s the end of the road for the game.
The Highguard website currently displays a “Site Unavailable” message and a support email address to Code32, a hosting service specifically for video game websites. The error page also contains links to the game’s official X account and an invite to the game’s Discord server. As observed by Reddit users, the Discord button erroneously led to an unrelated server for a similarly named “High Guard Gaming Guild” before it was fixed at some point.
While it’s possible that the website’s downtime is due to a hosting issue, the silence from Wildlight has players concluding that the studio has called it quits on the game after a mixed reception and faltering player numbers.
It’s interesting to see the journey of Highguard and how the community is responding to the recent developments. Change can be challenging, but it often brings new opportunities. Looking forward to seeing how things unfold!