I doubt that it was an overall failure from a business perspective, with a subscription thing like LU, you may have enough subscribers to make a profit at the beginning, but then later lose subscribers and be losing money for every day the game is running. Probably they're taking it offline to avoid an overall loss.- 55555Making it free to play was the worst thing they could have done. Then, everyone who wanted to play it would have stopped paying for it and just hopped on the free bandwagon.Team Fortress 2, anyone?Actually, it was not possible to switch back to a free account once you had already payed subscription.~Gata. What I mean is, in Team Fortress 2, when the game was made free to play, there was an influx of players who only joined because they didn't have to pay, and the game didn't make as much money.Same principle applies here.