United Front Games has confirmed some unfortunate news – they’re shutting down their free-to-play Sleeping Dogs spinoff, Triad Wars.

The spinoff was first officially announced back in September of last year, and has been in closed beta ever since. The developer took to their official forums to explain why the game “wasn’t right for many” players:

“Since the start of the Triad Wars Closed Beta this year, diligent Enforcers have run rampant through the streets of Hong Kong, killing rivals and building Empires. During this time we have gathered immense amounts of feedback, information, and data on the game. We’ve loved seeing how you’ve played Triad Wars but we know it wasn’t right for many of you so we’re letting you know today that we are going to close the beta and service on January 20th 2016 at 12 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. That’s 4 weeks from today and over this time we’re going to leave the game up and running for you to continue to enjoy but we will not be accepting any more purchases. To help you enjoy these final 4 weeks we’re going to make Gold available free of charge and we’ll shortly be posting news on the forums about how to deal with refunds of unused Gold. Thank you very much for all the testing, feedback and support!”

It remains unclear if this means the game is being completely shelved, but it certainly doesn’t sound hopeful.

We’ll keep you guys posted.