Live service and updates

research draft · methodology 0.3 · September 2, 2026 · Historical last Steam product line before server shutdown; Freejam announced shutdown during the week beginning 2025-01-20. This is a reconstruction from the announced schedule, not a direct observation of the shutdown moment.

The official announcement scheduled server shutdown during the week beginning 2025-01-20, but the exact completion day and the prior period of substantive releases required for Removed are not established by the retained evidence. Live-service Presence therefore remains Unknown.

Assessment scope

Access cost:

Unknown

Product horizon:

Server shutdown announced, announced on January 20, 2025— Freejam announced server shutdown during the week beginning 2025-01-20; the exact day was not published.

Independent dimensions

Depth:

Unknown

Core experience relevance:

Unknown

Observed adoption:

Unknown— The shutdown schedule provides no compatible current participation numerator and eligible-audience denominator, and the retained evidence does not establish historical reach.

Structural expectation:

Unknown

Player dependency:

Unknown

Change direction:

Not assessed

Assessment type:

Unknown

Confidence:

Insufficient data— The primary source establishes a past shutdown schedule, but not the exact completion day or the historical substantive-release condition that distinguishes Removed from Absent under section 15.5.

Module fields

Observation window segments:

During the week beginning 2025-01-20: servers were scheduled to shut down. The exact day was not published; the ended state at the 2026-09-02 boundary is a reconstruction from that past official schedule.

Support state:

Support ended

Evidence

• field · support_state

  Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Freejam · Published January 20, 2025 · Accessed September 2, 2026

  servers for both of these games will be shutting down over the course of this week

  Freejam scheduled shutdown during a past week. The ended state at the 2026-09-02 boundary is explicitly retained as a reconstruction because the exact completion day was not published.

  https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/301520/announcements/detail/569242775933944077
• field · window_split

  Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Freejam · Published January 20, 2025 · Accessed September 2, 2026

  servers for both of these games will be shutting down over the course of this week

  The shutdown boundary defines the final observation segment. During the week beginning 2025-01-20: servers were scheduled to shut down. The exact day was not published; the ended state at the 2026-09-02 boundary is a reconstruction from that past official schedule.

  https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/301520/announcements/detail/569242775933944077
• presence

  Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Freejam · Published January 20, 2025 · Accessed September 2, 2026

  servers for both of these games will be shutting down over the course of this week

  Freejam scheduled shutdown during the week beginning 2025-01-20, but the retained source does not directly confirm completion or a prior substantive-release period. Presence therefore remains Unknown.

  https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/301520/announcements/detail/569242775933944077
• scope

  Qualifies · Catalog mechanics research · Publisher: Freejam · Published January 20, 2025 · Accessed September 2, 2026

  servers for both of these games will be shutting down over the course of this week

  Freejam announced shutdown during the week beginning 2025-01-20; the exact day was not published. Adjacent offline modes, products, platforms, and historical windows were not transferred.

  https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/301520/announcements/detail/569242775933944077