Hey everyone, over the last couple of months we've seen the Awesomenauts community grow significantly. Ever since we added a Simplified Chinese localization to Awesomenauts, many new players from the Chinese community have become avid Awesomenauts fans.

Unfortunately, with the growing number of players in the Chinese community it has become apparent that there are some issues affecting a significant number of players, making it impossible for them to connect to our matchmaking server. As a result, we've decided to temporarily restrict access for new players to the game by disabling the Play / Purchase button on the storefront. This change will go into effect shortly. This will not affect players that already own the game, but ensures new players (who are likely to have problems connecting to our server) can't get in until we've succesfully adressed the issue.

The move also shouldn't affect players located outside China, so if you're reading this it probably won't affect you.

The game will be made available again once we've adressed these issues, and the game will become free-to-play in China just like it will be in the rest of the world starting May 24th.

We're very sorry about this, as the Chinese community has quickly become one of our largest groups of players, but I hope you understand why we're doing this and will continue to support us. We want all players to have a great time playing Awesomenauts, and this is the best way for us to guarantee that happens!

We'll update the Chinese community regularly on our progress!

Thanks,

Ronimo