generated: '2026-09-12'
method: searched
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec_Room_(video_game)
provider: Against Gravity Corp (renamed Rec Room Inc.)
status: decommissioned

summary: >-
  Against Gravity / Rec Room ran a real, first-party developer program — an Azure API Management
  developer portal at devportal.rec.net that issued subscription keys (Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key
  header, or subscription-key query parameter) against the api.rec.net host, with a published
  third-party API access and usage policy in the company help center. The whole surface was
  decommissioned with the service. This artifact records the end-of-life, not an active lifecycle
  policy: there is no versioning policy, deprecation policy, SLA or status page left to harvest,
  because there is no longer a running API.

end_of_life:
  announced: '2026-03-30'
  service_shutdown: '2026-06-01'
  service_shutdown_note: Game servers went offline at 12:00 Pacific.
  community_site_shutdown: '2026-06-09'
  community_site: https://rec.net
  stated_reason: >-
    The company said it never found a path to sustainable profitability despite serving more than
    150 million players; costs consistently exceeded revenue.
  asset_disposition: >-
    GeekWire reported that Snap Inc. acquired select assets and absorbed some Rec Room engineers
    into its Specs Inc. AR-glasses subsidiary. Not independently verified here.
  sources:
  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec_Room_(video_game)
  - https://www.geekwire.com/2026/rec-room-shutting-down-seattles-3-5b-social-gaming-platform-says-it-cant-make-the-business-work/

decommissioned_surfaces:
- surface: Developer portal
  host: devportal.rec.net
  kind: Azure API Management developer portal
  evidence: >-
    The CNAME record still exists and points at rr-apim-prod-001.developer.azure-api.net, but that
    target no longer resolves (NXDOMAIN) — the APIM instance was deleted. A dangling CNAME is the
    observable fossil of the portal.
  probed: '2026-09-12'
  observed: NXDOMAIN
- surface: API host
  host: api.rec.net
  kind: REST API behind Azure API Management subscription keys
  evidence: >-
    DNS still resolves to Cloudflare (104.21.38.138 / 172.67.223.44) but every HTTPS connection is
    answered with TLS alert 40 (handshake_failure) and no peer certificate. Port 80 returns 403.
  probed: '2026-09-12'
  observed: TLS handshake_failure, no certificate
- surface: Community site
  host: rec.net
  kind: Consumer/creator web portal
  evidence: Same TLS alert 40 with no peer certificate as api.rec.net.
  probed: '2026-09-12'
  observed: TLS handshake_failure, no certificate
- surface: Marketing site
  host: recroom.com
  kind: Squarespace marketing site
  evidence: >-
    Still served (HTTP 200, TLSv1.3, certificate valid to 2026-10-18) with pre-shutdown marketing
    copy and no sunset notice. Terms of service, privacy policy, careers, press and the ship-notes
    patch-notes blog all still return 200.
  probed: '2026-09-12'
  observed: live

versioning_policy: null
deprecation_policy: null
sla: null
status_page: null
notes: >-
  No Deprecation or StatusPage pointer is emitted. The company published an end-of-service
  announcement, not a deprecation policy, and no status page survives.