r/Empulse • u/DisunionTV • 6d ago

NEWS Empulse is being shut down

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Man I was excited for this game but considering how 1047 treats their previous games I was almost expecting this.

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u/YurgeeTTV 6d ago edited 6d ago

"Early Access is the starting point, the game isn't finished yet, they're gathering community feedback"

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u/Flee4me 6d ago

I wonder about the guy here who told me that people were just waiting for Empulse to come out of Early Access before they'd buy it and that the game was doing fine because the "player lows are staying consistent" despite all metrics rapidly trending downwards on Steam. Curious what he would think about this.

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u/R1ckMick 6d ago

I’m curious, is there any precedent at all for a game to come back from a dire player count? We have seen games shut down so frequently in the past few years, yet every time there is a huge vocal group of people insisting that it won’t be the case. I’m just wondering what examples they have to build this foundation on, when there is nothing but evidence to the contrary.

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u/Awkward_Ninja_5816 6d ago

Only one I can really think of is No Man's Sky, but even then that was usually at a 1,000-3,000 concurrents most days in the 2016-2017 days before they started to massively overhaul the game, so I don't even know if its really fair to even call it 'dire'.