Mutable Realms announced on Sunday that their MMORPG Wish has been canceled. The project recently started phase two of its beta testing sessions and had receive quite a-bit of praise from the online community. The news comes as a surprise as the game had been downloaded over 62,000 times on FilePlanet, with a total of 68,000 players signed up, and 30,000 player accounts activated within the first three days of the beta’s launch in early January.

Here’s the official word from the Mutable Realms team:

After careful consideration of all the facts and analyzing all the data which we have gathered from the Wish Beta 2.0 test so far, we have decided to cancel the Wish project.

Our Beta test will end this evening at 6pm EST, and at this time our Beta forums will close as well.

We enjoyed working together with our fans very much, and we are very sorry about this development. We wish you the best of luck in the future, and hope that you continue to enjoy online gaming, even with Mutable Realms and Wish not being available anymore.

We also wish the best luck to our competitors, and hope that they will not suffer the same fate as us.

More proof that the MMORPG genre is way too crowded. Maybe the days of pay-to-play MMORPG are starting to be numbered?