SOE announces closure of four MMOs including Free Realms and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it will be ending support for four ongoing MMORPGs: Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures , Free Realms , Vanguard: Saga of Heroes , and Wizardry Online . Free Realms and Clone Wars Adventures servers will shut down on March 31, while Vanguard and Wizardry servers will stop on July 31.

The statement references decreasing player counts as a key reason for the shutdowns. Still-active and once-active players have a few months to get back into the game one last time, if they'd like to. It can be a hard, sad thing to say goodbye to a world where you've spent a lot of time, even if you've since moved on.

SOE President John Smedley will be holding an AMA interview on Reddit at 6 p.m. Eastern today. If you have any questions about the shut downs or SOE's plans for the future, that would be the time and place.