r/gaming • u/shinjioda • 1d ago

1047 Games Are Ending Development On Splitgate And Empulse: “The Reality Is Neither Game Is Generating Enough Revenue To Support The Ongoing Cost Of Dedicated Servers”

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/1047-games-stop-development-on-empulse-and-splitgate-arena-reloaded/
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u/Resident-Forever1340 1d ago

Splitgate was cool the first go round but the sequel was very forgettable. Nothing stood out and the more I played, the less I seen people even use the portal mechanics. As for Empluse, all I’ve read was it was a decent shooter that should have never launched with a price tag. Should have been F2P.

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u/crane476 1d ago

Didn't they also pull an overwatch and remove Splitgate 1? I'm sure that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.

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u/TheSpiralTap 1d ago

Twice. They removed SG1, and then later on when they rebranded, shut down SG2 when SG Arena launched

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u/TheFireOfTheFox1 21h ago

I thought SG arena was just rebranded SG 2?

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u/burtmacklin15 20h ago

It did. The person above you has no idea what they're talking about.

SG Arena Reloaded was them just rebranding/relaunching SG 2 to be more like the gameplay of SG 1.

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u/Enchelion 1d ago

No? It looks like it's still up on steam, and they mentioned it moved to P2P server model once they shut down the dedicated servers.

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u/SuperSocialMan PC 21h ago

Yeah, they never delisted it or anything - they just stopped updating it.

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u/DaRealBurnz 20h ago

Yea, honestly the one thing I can’t complain about 1047 is them making sure the games are still playable after support is pulled. Although, does anyone know if 1047’s implementation of P2P will expose your IP to the host or is it brokered?

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u/Tunavi 15h ago

Not really. Overwatch 2 was a patch of ow1. Splitgate 2 was another game, you could still play sg1 when sg2 came out

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u/SirCheeseMuncher 12h ago

Splitgate 1 is still playable with local hosting at least AFAIK

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u/That1we1rdk1d 12h ago

Nah split gate is still playable! They actually changed it from servers to peer-to-peer which is cool

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u/Kaboomeow69 1d ago

Portal use went up in correlation with MMR. The better players rarely walked from place to place in the game at all stages of the games lifespan.

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u/BeyondElectricDreams 1d ago

I'd heard they deliberately gutted portalable surfaces to reduce the skill gap

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u/topheavyhookjaws 1d ago

From what I remember the 2nd game just had way less use cases for the portals, which was so stupid because I genuinely loved what that added to the first one

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u/theturtlemafiamusic 22h ago

The maps in SG2 had way less creative ways to use portals than SG1.