"The decision to close Renown was not made lightly. It is the hardest decision we've ever had to make as a company.

To be fully transparent, Renown is currently operating at a financial loss (in the six-figure range). Running a premium matchmaking platform is expensive: high-performance servers, constant development of anti-cheat and AI systems, and the time and effort required to operate and support it all.

At its core, building a matchmaking platform is a classic "chicken-and-egg" problem: fast queues and balanced matches require a large, active player base, but players will only join and stay if those conditions already exist. While we succeeded in building the technology and the infrastructure, we weren't able to scale the user base quickly enough to escape that loop."