And yet Blizzard can support Heroes of the Storm for years on what, I'm sure, is a FRACTION of the playerbase. And it even gets updates! And this is Micro$oft Activizzard, stealer of breast-milk and unpersoner supreme, THE scumbag company. Even they can go "eeeh, we got, what, 500 players? It's not THAT big a load on our servers, it runs off the SC2 and WC3 combined server anyways, let it keep running".

What went on at their company that they couldn't do a "maintenance mode" and had to do an "end of life"?