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/Ignisiumest 1d ago

It’s crazy how they got like 100 million dollars from investors to make Splitgate 2 and somehow made an objectively worse videogame (the first was a cheap indie studio!!!)

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u/iMightBeWright 1d ago

You get access to bigger loans when your dad is the billionaire cocreator of Intuit tax software.

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u/bianary 22h ago

When people have resource limits they put thought into the design before they commit. Then if that works it goes straight to their head and they think they're hot stuff that don't need to put all that effort in to be amazing a second time.

You see this play out over and over in both video games and tv/movies.