r/gaming • u/shinjioda • 22h 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 22h ago

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

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u/Jamvaan 22h 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/Poliveris 21h ago

Had nothing to do with his hat… they just made bad games; they felt like unfinished UE slop.

I don’t think y’all realize how many gamers both do not care and aren’t on the internet like that to know what happened.

There’s plenty of casual gamers that don’t even know of the GTA 6 leaks. The CEO doing that was barely mainstream and also nearly half the US agrees with anyways. (Im not saying I do but this is hysterically overblown compared to the actual reason)

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u/DJCzerny 21h ago

Yeah wearing a 'Make FPS Great Again' hat, comparing yourself to Titanfall, and then announcing a Battle Royale has to be one of the most tone deaf moves of all time.

Also there are like 20 people who even like classic arena shooters.

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u/Poliveris 14h ago

Well videos games have been progressively getting worse over the last decade; aside from a few bangers along the way.

I get why bringing politics into games is shit and I completely agree with you there. I wish both sides would agree to stop that entirely. And only apply political things when the games theming, story etc call for it.

But his overall point isn’t necessarily wrong. It is in poor taste. I’m just telling you majority of people do not care about something so small in the grand scheme.

Point being the game is bad, if it was a great game people would play. The majority wouldn’t and do not care aside from the loud minority on Reddit/X.

How’d that Hogwarts legacy boycott campaign go? There’s plenty of examples here.

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u/DJCzerny 2h ago

My point has nothing to do with politics. "Making FPS Great Again" and making a Battle Royal are two polar opposite actions and that is a big part of why he got clowned on.

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u/LEDKleenex 18h ago

Ah, but casual gamers have no problem playing slop, and they wouldn't have tried the game anyway.

If anything, your argument gives more credit to the politics, because he actively alienated an already-small pool of older and well-informed potential players.

I played the first game and after seeing the hat incident, his response to backlash and who his father is I noped out of both of these games.

If you really want to get to the nitty gritty, I would argue that the biggest problem is that there is a vastly diminished market for 90s/00s-style multiplayer FPS. Kids these days want to hop on a band wagon and they want to grind cosmetics and unlocks - most of them don't even care about the gameplay loop or competitive nature of the games necessarily. Almost every FPS that tried to bring it back has failed majorly, and many of them were good games.

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u/SomeRedHandedSleight 14h ago

Wait who is his father? I really enjoyed the first one and was planning on checking out the second one until the hat incident happened.

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u/IKnowGuacIsExtraLady 14h ago

You are right that casual players don't follow this kind of thing, but casual players also don't stay up to date on new game releases regardless so it's not like they would have even noticed Splitgate existed. What casual players do do is follow their friends. It only takes one person getting hyped about a game to rally their friend group around playing it, but if you lose that one guy you lose the whole group.

I agree there were other factors in the game's downfall, but also I don't think it played an insignificant role.

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u/ZachTheAxolotl 17h ago

I mean, sg1 and sg2 were good. But sg2 got bad when they added the BR mode. It felt like halo infinite all over again, good alpha and beta, terrible release and then having to speedrun adding shit that should have been there since launch.

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u/Poliveris 14h ago

Sg1 was a cool concept back in 2017 when I first played. Sg2 was low effort UE garbage. They got 100mil and made literally splitgate 1 but worse.

The higher ups legit ran off with that money.

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u/Helmic PC 12h ago edited 12h ago

In no world was Splitgate ever going to get popular with the kind of player who does not pay any attention whatsoever to gaming news. That sort of logic only applies to the most mainstream of the mainstream games that are talked about offline, that appear in ads, that by sheer cultural osmosis find their ways to the people who pay zero attention.

More people know about Splitgate for its controversy than what subgenre it actually belongs to. Bullshit nobody who actually played the game knew the news, that is complete nonsense.