After a lot of consideration, we've made the difficult decision to officially close SOS: Second Signal.
Next Friday will be the last opportunity to play the game before the servers go offline for good.
This isn't the outcome any of us hoped for when we started this project. We came into it with the ambition of bringing back the experience so many of us once enjoyed, recreating old memories and giving the SOS community one more chance to come together.
Unfortunately, despite everything we've built and the time we've invested, we haven't managed to attract a sustainable player base.
We understand that a significant part of this came down to a lack of trust within the community. After everything that happened surrounding the original game and its shutdown, we knew earning that trust wouldn't be easy. We also recognize that time has passed. Many of the people who once spent countless hours playing SOS have since grown up, started families, built careers and simply moved on to different chapters of their lives. Finding the time to return to a game like this isn't as easy as it once was.
We don't hold that against anyone. Life moves on, and communities change.
To everyone who gave Second Signal a chance, joined our testing sessions, reported bugs, spread the word, created content or simply showed up to play: thank you. Every bit of support meant something to us.
We built this project because we genuinely missed SOS and wanted to give something back to a community that once meant so much to us. Even if we couldn't bring it back the way we envisioned, we're proud of what we managed to accomplish.
So, before we turn off the lights, we'd like to invite everyone to join us one last time.
Next Friday. One final session. One last chance to play SOS. Cinno and i will join you guys in these last moments of La Cuna island.
Let's give this project the send-off it deserves.
Thank you for being part of Second Signal.
The SOS: Second Signal Team