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Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds

TechnologyAugust 11, 20261 min readAttributed summary
Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds
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Following its announcement in March, game developer Cold Iron Studios has shut down the servers for the cloud version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite on the Nintendo Switch. The game originally cost $30 (or $60 for an “Ultimate” version with additional content).

Cold Iron Studios hasn't offered customers refunds.

TheGamer reported that affected players are entitled to a discount for the Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game, which is a 2021 co-op, third-person shooter based on the Alien film franchise. However, that would mean paying money for a game that you have already paid money for once.

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Source: Ars Technica

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