Splitgate 2 is ‘unlaunching’ as developer 1047 Games cuts staff | VGC

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• helix@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  oh come on. I even paid money for that game. How on earth can they not afford to develop it?!

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    at least 1 million Europeans agree with you.

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  • Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Imo open sourcing is not necessary, as that is unrealistic depending on the licensing of libraries etc. Just distributing the server and making it possible to selfhost would be enough.

    Or, built local network play to the game itself (although this requires most of the work necessary for creating a selfhostable server anyway).

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    • jnod4@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The ability to bug fix the code years down the line would be godsent

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  • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Would also like this for any source available or proprietary app not just Vidya.

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• Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This comes just after the whole “Make fps great again” issue happened. Not a good time to be on that team

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  • rainwall@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The ceo is the son of one of the founders of Inuit, the turbotax/quickbooks company. Hes even on the slipgates board.

    The owners are pure nepo and will never face any consequence for failure. Its pretty easy why they dont care about killing the company and fucking the employees.

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• drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wow, I’ve seen plenty of games launch unfinished but ‘unlaunching’ is a new one for me.

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  • uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’re taking a page from NVIDIA’s 4080 unlaunch.

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• Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is actually a very sincere statement from the company. Kind of refreshing.

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• warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They failed with the first game after it spiked in popularity. They were only ever releasing a number 2 in an attempt to cash in on another spike, but it didnt work out did it.

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• Rose@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Relaunching never seems to work out. Just look at Multiversus and Bloodhunt.

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  • Metahodos@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Counterpoint: Final Fantasy XIV.

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    • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I kind of feel like the golden age of “rebooted live service game” is behind us, tbh. We had games like FFXIV and Rainbow Six: Siege that launched rough, but committed to fixing it and then successfully turned it around. In those days, there weren’t many live service games, so people were willing to wait out a possible turnaround. In the time since, we have been absolutely drowning in live-service games, and many of them are free-to-play. Why would I wait for the Splitgate turnaround when there are 3 other live-service f2p shooters that I haven’t even tried yet? If I’m a kid or young adult that came up on Roblox, I might even be content with the shooters built into that platform.

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    • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s a remaster isn’t it? Games have to age into that.

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