Red Army Faction Seiters took responsibility and resigned from his post. On 20 April 1998, an eight-page typewritten letter in German was faxed to the Reuters news agency, signed "RAF" with the machine-gun red star, declaring the group dissolved: "Almost 28 years ago, on 14 May 1970, the RAF arose in a campaign of liberation. Today we end this project. The urban guerrilla in the shape of the RAF is now history." () In response to this statement, former BKA President Horst Herold said, "With this statement the Red Army Faction has erected its own tombstone." Horst Mahler, a founding RAF member, is
Red Faction: Armageddon back scabs, and the trademark destructo-physics reduced to a carnival sideshow, "Red Faction: Armageddon" slips comfortably into the heavily stained underpants of fourth place." The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the "Path to War" DLC received "mixed" reviews according to Metacritic. The sales of "Red Faction: Armageddon" were poor and the game was considered a commercial failure by THQ. Because of this, on June 27, 2011, THQ announced that plans for future installments had been cancelled. The disappointing sales of "Armageddon", along with other factors, had led THQ to lose $38.4 million in a fiscal year. While no actual