For the former, an announcement on Twitter stated the game would be pulled from 31st July, although existing owners will not be impacted. “The initial digital game was released 9 years ago, and we no longer feel the current quality and reliability are on par with what Pandemic deserves on digital platforms,” reads the statement. Watch on YouTube Eurogamer Newscast: Why are video game companies still trying to flog NFTs? “That is why we have progressively removed the current Pandemic games published by Asmodee Digital from all digital stores.”
Players will still be able to play the game solo and the price will be dropped accordingly to $/€14.99.
Asmodee specialise in porting popular board games into digital form, like Pandemic and Catan. Here’s hoping new versions will be released in the future.