We will not be able to play co-op anymore

[Mr. Gaiety]

The worst part of Wolcen shutting down it's ongoing support is that the studio is going to pull the plug on it's multiplayer with NO alternative. I understand everyone's frustrations with this game, but me and my friends enjoyed it. Its disappointing knowing we won't be able to atleast coop for the future.

This is why tying a game to central servers is not reliable and the importance of preserving games separate from their publisher.

[Demian]

There are many players who will be dissapointed because of it. I bought this game only because of coop, and all my time in this game only with ONLINE character.

[SwatKat1-Sukshinder ShindaHMC]

How about Co op?

[Mr. Gaiety]

Co-op is dead. Unfortunately the devs did not offer an alternative to it alongside the offline mode. You will never be able to play this game with friends again.

This is the problem trying to chain your game to online infrastructure. I assume they were hoping that is the game was successful, there wouldn't be a need for LAN.

[Sgt.JESUS]

Agreed with OP, thats why live service games are even more dangerous, not to mention those under online verification DRM protection, sadly we dont own the games we buy anymore.
Thats why i buy most of my games on GOG, at least there i know i own the game and can download the whole thing if i want to.

[Peredur]

Objectively, coop in Wolcen was dead long before they shutdown the servers.

Matchmaking never worked and simply put together people that where looking for teammates at the same time (not people already in game), without regard to their progression (with at start issues because people couldn't go back to where they where in their own campaign and couldn't progress anymore). So nobody used it.

Servers could strugle with many sufficiently advanced build. And those issues appeared even earlier in coop. So many completely stopped playing in coop and limited it to trading (which nobody used often).

In the end, the amount of players in coop on a quite deserted game was quite negligible at best. Servers shut down didn't effectively affect many players.