Mobile game developer King issued an announcement saying that they will be shutting down the service for their microtransaction-fuelled title Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! Originally released on March 2021 on Android and iOS, Crash and his buddies will go on one last run in February 2023, when the servers will shut down permanently.
The in-game store is closed already and all players are encouraged to use up their remaining Purple Crystals before the servers are shut down for good. This information came as quite a surprise for the community and we have some rumors suggesting that the game might have been preparing for a full relaunch next year. The game was previously delisted from the stores and King stated that the removal was due to a bug. Obvsiouly, many people were also disappointed that the game they spent money on over the past two years will now suddenly disappear, but that’s always a risk that is tied to any financial investment.
In any case, Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! is not the first mobile game to pull the plug and it won’t be the last one either.