Just months after shedding a “important” variety of staff within the face of “surprising challenges,” Midnight Society, the studio co-founded in 2021 by Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm, former Call of Duty artistic strategist Robert Bowling, and Halo 5 multiplayer designer Quinn Delhoyo, has introduced that it is closing fully.
“Today we’re saying Midnight Society might be closing its doorways after three unbelievable years, with an incredible group of over 55 builders contributing to our new IP Deadrop,” the studio stated in a message posted to X. “We are actively looking for different sport studios that will be all in favour of providing employment alternatives to our proficient group members. If anybody who’s hiring please ahead this message to them or DM us for direct intros.
“We categorical our honest gratitude to every certainly one of our group members and [are] deeply sorry we had been unable to achieve our final objective.”
That objective was the discharge of Deadrop, an extraction shooter that bought its begin by way of the sale of NFTs. The cash sunk into these now-homeless digital doodads has led quite a few “founders” to ask in response to the message if they’re going to obtain refunds, because the sport is not taking place. Midnight Society hasn’t formally commented on the matter, however the protected guess (and basic consensus) is, “no.”
Midnight Society got here out with a bang, backed by Beahm’s fame as a streamer and Bowling’s cred as a Call of Duty veteran, however progress on Deadrop appeared to gradual in early 2023 when the studio moved away from frequent “snapshot” construct releases to “much less frequent however a lot bigger” updates. Things bought ugly a yr later when Beahm was fired by Midnight Society over allegations that his lifetime ban from Twitch was issued over an change of inappropriate DMs with a minor.
PC Gamer’s Morgan Park stated on the time that “it is onerous to think about a contented ending for Midnight Society,” phrases that now appear prescient.
In a twist of horrible irony, Midnight Society’s closure comes on the identical day that Beahm’s YouTube channel was remonetized. It was demonetized after his admission of the inappropriate message change with a minor; his first request to remonetize the channel, in October 2024, was refused; YouTube’s enchantment course of allowed him to reapply for monetization once more after 60 days.
I’ve reached out to Midnight Society to ask about the potential for refunds for founders, and can replace if I obtain a reply.
