Free-to-play 3v3 shooter Spectre Divide is being shut down six months after its initial launch in September 2024, and simply weeks after its arrival on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Its developer Mountaintop Studios can be closing.
Moutaintop CEO Nate Mitchell confirmed the news in a statement published on social media at present.
“Unfortunately, the Season 1 launch hasn’t achieved the level of success we needed to sustain the game and keep Mountaintop afloat,” explains the submit.
The workforce was optimistic following the primary week, reporting the game 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 enough active players and incoming revenue to cover the day-to-day costs of Spectre and the studio,” the submit continued. “Since the PC launch, we stretched our remaining capital as far as we could, but at this point, we’re out of funding to support the game.”
“We pursued every avenue to keep going, including finding a publisher, additional investment, and/or an acquisition. In the end, we weren’t able to make it work. The industry is in a tough spot right now.”
Spectre Divide might be taken offline throughout the subsequent 30 days, and any money spent by gamers for the reason that Season 1 launch might be refunded.
The information comes opposite to experiences in October 2024 that Spectre Divide “isn’t going anywhere.”
“The servers aren’t shutting down, and the updates aren’t going to stop,” mentioned Mitchell on the time, sustaining Mountaintop had “the funds to support Spectre for a long time.”
IGN’s positive 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 during matches. However, the information of its speedy shutdown comes on the heels of a quantity of 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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