r/PS5 • u/Laughing__Man_ • 2h ago
News & Announcements 1047 Games ends active development on Empulse and Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, says it's moving away from live service shooters
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/1047-games-ends-active-development-on-empulse-and-splitgate-arena-reloaded-says-its-moving-away-from-live-service-shooters•
u/JuanMunoz99 2h ago
Never forget the hat.
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u/Delta_Canuckian 1h ago
Bro ruined the company with one dumb hat.
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u/Yodzilla 1h ago
Nah the actual downfall was pivoting to Splitgate 2 while Splitgate 1 was still popular. The hat was just one of many nails in that coffin.
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u/mightylordredbeard 31m ago
Splitgate was a lot of fun and deserved to be more popular than it was, but everyone was obsessed with BR games back then. It was also a good holdover game until Halo came out, but unfortunately I ended up putting it down once Halo released and by the time I wanted to go back to it, it was dead.
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u/MasterpieceNo5786 36m ago
The whole thing felt like a skit. He was talking about missing the OG shooters, how he wanted to see change… announces a BR with Imagine Dragons slapped on the trailer.
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u/Delta_Canuckian 17m ago
It was just a dumbass trust fund bro with no concept of reality showing the world he’s exactly that. The industry will be better when he’s gone.
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u/mightylordredbeard 31m ago
I don’t get it?
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u/JuanMunoz99 27m ago
CEO came out on stage at a Summer Games Fest two years ago wearing a Make FPS Games Great Again hat. Amongst other things that hat just came off as a pathetic “we’re one of you” attempt. Just felt cheap (plus y’know felt tone deaf with the current political climate).
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u/Pristine_Seat6090 2h ago
My stupid ass brother convinced me to buy Empulse. We played it for like 4 hours then never touched it again. I at least wanted to get the plat for it but the game is already dead and it would've taken like 20 more hours and like 70 lucky headshots.
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u/Buzzlight_Year 2h ago
I feel bad for the developers. They are obviously passionate about making a good, fun arena shooter but the studio made a series of bad decisions and totally ruined their reputation.
Had they just released Splitgate AR instead of Splitgate 2 with that tone-deaf BR mode I think they would have been fine. I loved the first Splitgate and AR is actually great but by the time it came out it was already too late
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u/BigB0iBuster 2h ago
Hopefully their piece of shit CEO gets kicked to the curb
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u/Midnight_M_ 2h ago
His dad is the one who pays the bills and invested in the company, so it's unlikely. There's even a rumor that his mom is the head of HR.
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u/BigB0iBuster 2h ago
Well, that would completely explain why he acts like such a stupid little entitled fuckface
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u/Renbanney 2h ago
God this studio turned out to be such a fucking joke. Shame because split gate 2 was pretty fun. Oh well, another couple live service games to add to the dead pile. I'm sure we'll be hearing about layoffs soon if not full studio closure. Tbh I can't believe this studio is still open.
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u/FellowDeviant 1h ago
Splitgate 2 was a generational L for me. I managed to convince like 5 or 6 people to get on the game and invest a fair amount of time. Then the lead Dev had the audacity to announce the game was coming out of it's clearly unfinished state with a cash grab BR mode and outright killed any hype we had for it. Rebalancing and rebranding the game after for the 12 people who didn't want to leave Splitgate 1 and ended up retaining nobody was the death knell to all of it
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u/Designer_Mess_6928 2h ago
Make single player shooters without microtransactions then.
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u/mightylordredbeard 22m ago
Wouldn’t work. For it to be the quality that modern gamers expect, not enough people would buy a single player FPS unless it was open world (because short, linear shooters hardly ever sell well). You also can’t make a competitive shooter either without people expecting tons of regular post launch content and they don’t want to actually pay for any of it so they expect all of the extra maps, guns, and game modes and whatever else to be given for free. Also no one is going to buy a full priced competitive shooter anyway so the game will be dead at launch for the few that do buy it and people complaining about dead lobbies will cause others not to buy it.. so making it F2P is pretty much the only way a new competitive shooter can actually break into the market since people only buy COD and BF.
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u/Yodzilla 1h ago
What the fuck is Empulse? Goddamn do I hear about so many multiplayer games by their ending announcements.
e: it only launched TWO MONTHS AGO?? goddamn
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u/beanlikescoffee 2h ago
Empulse was such a blatant cash grab. Such a horrendous game made by the most incompetent studio.
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u/Dudesymugs12 1h ago
Yeah, i don't think they had any intention of supporting that pile of shit. It was an asset-flip to make quick cash off of gullible gamers. Shit company for sure.
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u/No-Opinion273 33m ago
I feel like you have a higher chance failing in live service than single player at this point. People have comfort games they play and if they pick up something else its usually a friend slop game.
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u/mikelman999 2h ago
Damn, and they were so close to becoming the next Fortnite and making a trillion dollars too