Developer calls Highguard website outage an administrative issue

Highguard's website no longer shows its splash screen and exhortation to "play now!"; it simply says "Site unavailable" and offers an email link to website builder and host Code32 rather than to developer Wildlight. On the game's Discord, a developer using the handle WL_Coronach described the problem as largely a paperwork matter and said Wildlight isn't rushing to fix it because the studio has bigger priorities.

The game got off to a strong start—with nearly 100,000 concurrent players on Steam after a surprise appearance in the closing minutes of The Game Awards—but the vast majority of that audience quickly faded. Sixteen days after launch Wildlight laid off "most" of its staff, saying it was keeping a core group of developers to continue work; updates have continued, including a beefy content update that went live yesterday.

Despite those updates, concurrent player counts on Steam are regularly below 1,000 and the site's non-functional limbo feeds concerns that Highguard is barely hanging on.

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