After the announced closure of the popular gaming website on October 31, 2021, the continuation has now been announced – but under new management.
At the end of August, the traditional gaming portal 4Players announced its closure. On October 31, 2021, the editorial support of the site was discontinued and the editorial team was dismissed.
This step was forced by economic measures that made the future-proof operation of the online magazine in this form with this personnel expenditure and a changing marketing landscape impossible. At the same time, this is a consistent continuation of the company strategy, which has increasingly focused on the core business sectors since 2017.
On November 1, 2021, one day after the official cessation of editorial support, 4Players announced the continuation of the page on its website.
Accordingly, we are extremely pleased to be able to inform you that there are several interested parties for the continued operation of the 4Players.de portal so that you can start off into the future of gaming with you. Even if we can already see the finish line, the process is not yet fully completed. That’s why we can’t say much more about it at the moment, but we will comment on it as quickly as possible and ask you to refrain from questions and speculations until then.
As you can see from the quote, we know very little about the continuation of the popular gaming website. It is not known who will continue to run 4Players and whether some well-known faces will push aside again. We would therefore like to ask you to comply with the request of 4Players and not to make any rumors or speculations about the continuation.
Continuation meets mixed community feelings
Mixed feelings can be found in the comments below the announcement. On the one hand, readers are waiting and want to see first how and by whom the traditional gaming website is being continued. On the other hand, parts of the 4Players community have a very queasy feeling about the future of the site after the previous editorial team around editor-in-chief Jörg Luibl was dismissed.