Family Guy Online Shuts Down
Can't say this comes as a surprise. Family Guy Online is apparently shutting down on January 18th. The MMO which was set in the universe of the popular cartoon, was never fully released, only making it to open beta before getting its curtain closed.
Why was it shut down? Was it because Family Guy has been around for 11 seasons and people were simply tired of the cartoon family? That probably had something to do with it. Another even more likely reason was because 20th Century Fox, the network behind Family Guy, wasn't seeing enough profit. In fact, I am going to say that money was the main reason, just like it was the main reason they decided to make an MMO based off the series in the first place. Can you tell I don't care about Family Guy? Because I don't.
If you happened to spend any money on the browser MMO between October 22nd and December 21st, then you will be happy to know you will be getting a refund sometime in January. More details about refunds can be found on the main page here.
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well family guy online is a crap game, and the cartoon has nothing to do with the bad game they made. Evene if the game is bad, it had more humore then WoW+ guildwars 2 together
Shame to see Soul Captor going off too. Guess it wasn't a happy launch all around for many titles.
Family Guy Online was terrible. Sure, it had the humor of the TV series, however, that's ALL it had, and nothing more. No one really wants to spend hours on end running around and doing absolutely nothing. It would be hard to turn Family Guy into a violent type mmorpg. It maybe a violent TV show at "Some" points in the series, but it's definitely not something that could be turned into an mmorpg.
Oh well, I'm sure Seth Mcfarlane, has absolutely nothing to lose anyways, he's already filthy rich, maybe he was just bored one day.