Crypto MMORPG Ember Sword shuts down despite $203 million land pledge
By Ken Allsop
Added May 25, 2025

Blockchain MMORPG Ember Sword has been shut down by its creator, several years after it received more than $200 million in pledges for virtual plots of land. The multiplayer game, which promised a world filled with PvE and PvP activities featuring “no pay-to-win,” and employed its own cryptocurrency token as a way to trade for cosmetic items that were treated as NFTs, has now been taken offline.
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