This Massive VR MMORPG Is Dead - Zenith: The Last City

Sad news today for the Virtual Reality community and VR lovers in general.

The Co-Founders of Ramen VR, Andy Tsen and Lauren Frazier, recently announced that they will no longer be developing and deploying new Patches for the Virtual Reality MMORPG Zenith: The Last City.

Despite massive success upon launching the game on both the Meta Quest and Steam stores, Zenith has become increasingly more barren and lifeless throughout the years since its launch.

This hasn’t been due to a lack of effort on the part of the developers. New features such as instanced dungeons, an entirely reworked tutorial and questing experience, a new class, and new tools for exploration and resource gathering did not breathe new life into the game and keep players coming back to it.

That was the core problem with Zenith: The Last City, no matter what the developers over at Ramen VR tried to do, players just didn’t stick around for more than a month.

This lead to an effect where when you logged in to play the game it felt pretty barren, and any MMORPG is only as good as the players that fill it. So it was easier to simply not log back in, since it seemed that not many others were interested in the game.

Even an overhaul and free to play addition in the form of Zenith: Infinite Realms and rebranding the game Zenith: Nexus didn’t reverse this trend, and the game became too expensive to continue developing.

After the final patch in August, Ramen VR will be ceasing active development on Zenith and switching their focus and resources to new projects.

Though the Zenith: Nexus and Zenith: The Last City servers will remain up and running for the time being, and those who bought ingame currency will be receiving rewards in future games released by Ramen VR… whenever that is.

For more check out the FAQ that Ramen VR has posted on their website or the video they posted explaining their story.