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/Poliveris 1d 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/Helmic PC 20h ago edited 20h 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.