Bad news if you enjoy playing Disney’s Marvel: Avengers Alliance and Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2 (Free). Disney has decided to shut down both of those games on all platforms on September 30th. In order to ensure that no one spends any more money on the games, purchasing has been disabled as of today. According to the announcement, this was a difficult decision because of the passion and support of all the players, but they want to shift their focus to new titles. They are at this moment shifting developing towards “a growing selection of Disney Mobile apps," so apparently something needs to go.

As you can imagine, the comments in response to this announcement haven’t been kind, but that’s to be expected since some players have spent quite a bit of money in those games, and not being able to play it all isn’t an easy pill to swallow. It does bring to the surface once more the issue of online games and how they are often ephemeral. This is not just an issue with mobile since PC and console games have been recently sharing the same fate, but the F2P nature of many mobile games does make instances like this one hurt more.