User blog comment:Bluesonic1/Storm8 Censorship/@comment-86.153.196.52-20151016040402

It must be the case that storm8 can make more money from assigning development resource to other projects. I feel sorry for the people who spent real money - especially those who spent it recently only to get one month's notice that the games are to be shut down. I'm afraid the legal problems with transferring the database, and the technical problems with relocating the application, will make it infeasible for it to be transferred to anyone else. That would require a significant cash investment that would never be recouped. Apart from that the code base is 6 or 7 years old which means maintenance and development would also be very expensive.

I do think that storm8 have handled this very badly. Transparent honesty - explaining why they made their decision - rather than blatant censorship would have been much better. But then, I'm sure they'll make a huge amount of money out of their other titles so why should they care?