Our [i]beloved[/i] friends over at Hasbro in their [i]infinite wisdom[/i] decided to pull the plug on Transformers Universe. This game, which is still in Beta, will be fully shut down on January 31st, 2015. Server shut down has already begun, and Founders' Pack owners are being refunded. At this time, neither Hasbro nor Jagex have come forward with a reason for this shut down, and I don't we will ever get one. If you can still play, then enjoy every moment of it, because it won't last much longer.
Personally, this decision pisses me off to no end. I have eagerly awaited this game since it was announced a couple years back, and when Open Beta arrived, I was overjoyed to finally be able to play the game that I'd waited so long for. I hoped to be able to play alongside my fellow fanfiction writer who lives in Serbia when the game fully released. But thanks to Hasbro, those hopes are dashed.
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Despite not enjoying the game at all, I -blam!-ing LOVED Transformers Prime (the TV show that inspired it). It boggles my mind on why it was cancelled. It was better received critically than ANY of the Michael Bay shit. It had Peter Cullen. It made Arcee a certified badass. It only had 1 annoying human character. It had the right amount of humor and dark grittiness that fits the lore. It had StarScream being his usual hilarious self. It had mother-blam!-ing UNICRON. Damn you, Hasbro. Damn you to hell for canning that show. The new Robots in Disguise TV show that they replaced it with looks terrible. The animation looks like shit, the trailer looks like shit, and it looks like it's aiming for the 5-10 age demographic instead of Prime's older demographic. -blam!-. Damn you, Hasbro. Damn you.