The bizarre internet sports-sim\u00a0Blaseball\u00a0<\/em>is coming to a close. Developer The Game Band has announced that it’s ending Blaseball\u00a0<\/em>ahead of its new era, and laying off some staff in the process.<\/p>\n Posted on The Game Band’s Medium page<\/a>, the studio confirms\u00a0Blaseball\u00a0<\/em>is headed to an end, rather than its planned Coronation Era. In short,\u00a0Blaseball\u00a0<\/em>“isn’t sustainable” to keep running.<\/p>\n “Since Blaseball<\/em>\u2019s inception, we\u2019ve been fighting against the amount of work it takes to keep Blaseball<\/em> true to itself while financially supporting the team and keeping our staff healthy,” the dev team wrote. “We\u2019ve tried countless solutions to make it work, and we\u2019ve come to the conclusion that this fight isn\u2019t one we can win in the long run. The cost, literally and metaphorically, is too high. So we are making the decision to end it here instead of changing Blaseball<\/em> into something unrecognizable.”<\/p>\n As part of this, The Game Band is also parting ways with “many” of its team members. The team had grown in order to start making some of its plans work for the rebooted<\/a> Blaseball.<\/em><\/p>\n