Free-to-play 3v3 shooter Spectre Divide is being shut down six months after its preliminary launch in September 2024, and simply weeks after its arrival on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Its developer Mountaintop Studios can also be closing.
Moutaintop CEO Nate Mitchell confirmed the news in a statement published on social media right now.
“Unfortunately, the Season 1 launch hasn’t achieved the extent of success we would have liked to maintain the sport and preserve Mountaintop afloat,” explains the submit.
The group was optimistic following the primary week, reporting the sport attracted round 400,000 gamers – with a peak concurrent depend of roughly 10,000 throughout all platforms.
“But as time has gone on, we haven’t seen sufficient energetic gamers and incoming income to cowl the day-to-day prices of Spectre and the studio,” the submit continued. “Since the PC launch, we stretched our remaining capital so far as we might, however at this level, we’re out of funding to assist the sport.”
“We pursued each avenue to maintain going, together with discovering a writer, further funding, and/or an acquisition. In the top, we weren’t in a position to make it work. The business is in a troublesome spot proper now.”
Spectre Divide might be taken offline throughout the subsequent 30 days, and any cash spent by gamers because the Season 1 launch might be refunded.
The information comes opposite to reviews in October 2024 that Spectre Divide “isn’t going anyplace.”
“The servers aren’t shutting down, and the updates aren’t going to cease,” mentioned Mitchell on the time, sustaining Mountaintop had “the funds to assist Spectre for a very long time.”
IGN’s optimistic preview of Spectre Divide in August 2024 heaped reward on the tactical 3v3 shooter for coming to the desk with its intriguing Duality system, which noticed gamers controlling two characters throughout matches. However, the information of its speedy shutdown comes on the heels of numerous different live-service fizzers, together with the failure of Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Sony’s Concord.
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