Unlike the anime inspired Fantasy Tennis and Smash Online – Gold Slam aimed to please a different audience – an audience which was unfortunately smaller than Aeria had anticipated. Gold Slam was a 3D ‘Realistic’ tennis MMO by Aeria Games. The game was originally launched in 2003 – but was later shut down on October 31, 2007. Survival Project was a moderately paced 2D action MMO where players would fight it out in a Super Smash Brothers style format – except with an overhead camera. The game’s servers were officially shut down on July 1, 2009.
The game only went free to play during the its last year or so. Shadowbane originally launched as a PvP heavy pay to play MMORPG that was designed to compete with Ultima Online back in 2003. Fury also had a small playerbase – so it’s no surprise that the game was shut down. Aside from the fact that the game received terrible reviews from practically every media outlet – the game itself had very little content. Before it got shut down though – the game did go free to play for a while. A similar game, called Cloud Nine, is expected to launch soon and is supposed to be ‘Holic Online 2’ – so the game may yet live on.įury originally launched as a pay to play game back in 2007 and was shut down about 10 months after release. Hopefully the game will return one day – as it was one of the few games on this list that people actually played. The game had a medium sized playerbase as well – so the fact that the game was shut down did come as a surprise. Unlike Ares though – Holic Online had some really gorgeous cel shaded anime graphics and some genuinely fun gameplay. Like Legend of Ares – Holic Online was published by Net Game. I’m actually surprised this game got shut down. The game was available to North American players through Netgame.
It played like a 3D Diablo – the graphics were quite poor, but the gameplay wasn’t terrible. This was a neat little free to play MMORPG with fast XP gain and some interesting gameplay. The game is fairly popular in Japan though – so the game itself can’t be bad. Like Stone Age 2 though – the game had a very small playerbase and didn’t really catch on with gamers – so it was really doomed to failure from the start. The game sort of played like Dungeon Fighter Online – except with a more ‘up beat’ and ‘bright’ theme. Pi Story was a neat little side scrolling 2D anime inspired MMORPG by Aeria Games. The game felt more like a single player RPG than an MMO – but not the good kind with epic storytelling or anything. I’m surprised Aeria Games even decided to launch Stone Age 2. Vanilla gate was shut down on November 17th, 2009. The game was published by ‘Inix Game’ who also publishes Kal Online, a much more successful fantasy MMORPG. I remember when the game was around – it was nearly impossible to even find even ONE other person to play with – as the servers were dead empty. The game suffered from many technical issues as well as a lack of players. The game has the same premise as other fighting MMOs like Rumble Fighter and Splash Fighter – except with much worse execution. Players had to battle it out Super Smash bros style against other players.
This 3D anime inspired MMO ‘brawler’ game. Dead pay to play games will not be listed here. Also, we only list dead ‘free to play’ MMORPGs and MMOs. The games below are in no particular order. Games that were never officially released will not be included in this list nor will games that never left the beta phase. This page will be updated as more and more games shut down. The games below have been shut down by their respective publishers – meaning for all intents and purposes they’re dead. Even though the free to play MMORPG market has grown considerably over the last few years – not every MMORPG is a success.