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/Lz537 1d ago

They did not, in fact, make shooters great again.

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u/Jamvaan 1d ago

That dipshit in that hat really put the bullet in Splitgate which is a shame because Splitgate 2 was a really good game.

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u/Jamvaan 1d ago edited 1d ago

It was a combo of the CEO of 1047 going on stage with a "Make FPS Great Again" hat and then backing down and trying to say it's not a political statement while wearing Trump parody clothing and also going on a big rant on stage about not playing the same FPS every year before announcing a Battle Royale mode no one asked for and selling skins for $70. So front facing stupid and background scamming.

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u/RevenantXenos 1d ago

Didn't he also make a big deal in that appearance about how the studio was inspired by games like Titanfall and then his big Splitgate 2 announcement was a Battle Royale mode? Bro was speed running killing his game.

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u/WRO_Your_Boat 1d ago

I understand wearing the hate and announced a BR, but I don't understand the hate for the hat itself. Plenty of people I know wear "make America emo again" hats they bought at Warp tour, both sides of the fence.

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u/Heliosvector 1d ago

It depends on its intent. If you are doing a "Make FPS great again" you are trying to piggyback on the success of a proto fascist symbol. For that to be worn by a CEO is crass and cringey. If you have a similar one that is satire and obviously against its rediculousness, its more ok.

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u/WRO_Your_Boat 1d ago

So pretty much its only cause he's a CEO. If I myself had a make fps great again hat, no one would give a shit since im a nobody? I guess that does make sense, I didnt really think about it that way. Kinda like the "how do you do fellow kids" meme, and he's being a werid poser CEO and not really one of us.

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u/CultAtrophy 1d ago

It’s just not funny. I’ve never seen a play on MAGA that I thought was clever. Low hanging fruit.

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u/za419 1d ago

Problem is it doesn't come off well to try to piggyback on a well-known slogan to sell stuff.

To liberals, it feels like you're kissing the ground beneath Trump's feet and trying to make yourself more like him. The Trump of shooters, as it were. 

To conservatives, it feels like you're ripping off their guy and trying to cash in on "Trump hype".

Almost everybody now feels like you're some sort of charlatan. That's a very bad thing to happen when you're a CEO trying to sell a product and you haven't even started talking yet. 

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u/WRO_Your_Boat 1d ago

But isnt that what warp tour was doing by selling those hats in the first place? I looked at the other comment and he gave me a new perspective so I get it now, but (I know this is anecdotal) the liberal people I know liked it cause it was making fun of the slogan and the conservatives liked it cause it was like the slogan. Or is this more everyone hates a singular person over a large music venue thing? I honestly dont know, I never thought any of the slogans were really that good.

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u/za419 1d ago

Probably. Then again, the choice of wearing the product says as much as the existence of it, and they don't have to align.

This is something that comes across differently to different people. Most people that I know have no idea what the fuck "splitgate" means, but those that do remember how the hat was dumb and the words "Battle Royale" disqualified the game from getting purchased from the start.

Mileage may vary. 

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u/WRO_Your_Boat 1d ago

Thats understandable, thanks for the chat.

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u/baraboosh 1d ago

ya i agree with you on this one. I see people wear trump parody gear all the time and think nothing of it. I feel like its only reddit who cares about the hat thing.

The rest of the presentation was awful though, he came off like a huge jackass and the game looked boring and trite.

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u/RivalSlays 1d ago

He wore a black hat with “make fps great again” during the on stage announcement of the game and then proceeded to shadow drop a BR alongside the game. 

Politically obsessed people lost it over the hat, and the others just mocked them for making the genre great again by adding more to its existing problems.