Not only is Mytheon shutting down services, but they announced it almost two months ago and it seems no one noticed. Talk about a flop. I only learned about it now when I read it on Massively, but it was announced on the official forums back on July 27th.
Mytheon is a property of UTV Ignition Games, who were recently acquired by Disney. Since the acquisition both Mytheon and Faxion have been shutdown, Faxion completely, but Mytheon is still running its servers, although not allowing any new registrations.
Both titles were only launched a few months ago, six months for Mytheon and four for Faxion, but it seems Disney didn’t really care to invest any time or money into either and just shut them down instead. Maybe the whole Greek gods and Heaven vs Hell mythology of each games didn’t vibe with Disney’s image.
Mytheon was a great concept of a game, but the execution was horrendous and its development was plagued by lawsuits and finally ended with their company scamming people with champion packages that were never delivered. I don’t believe Disney had anything to do with it… the game was a flop from day 1. I played quite a bit, and complained quite a bit… they had some of the most amateur employees (particularly their forum admins and PR dept) I’ve ever seen in my over 15 years of online game development participation.