Evolve is finished. The first-person shooter which gobbled up Game of the Show awards like they were going out of fashion has been dropped by developer Turtle Rock – mere months after going free-to-play on PC. It's safe to assume that the complimentary release didn't catch fire quite like the studio wanted it to.
This all means that the free-to-play version which was planned for the PlayStation 4 will no longer deploy, as the studio moves on to new things. "This is the life of AAA game developers who aren't self-funded and don't own their own IP," it said, pointing the finger at publisher 2K Games. "We don't get to make the call."
We suppose the good news is that Turtle Rock is not closing down. 2K Games must be biting its nails a little bit, though; Gearbox may be denying it, but it seems like the publisher has similar plans in place for the commercial flop that was Battleborn. Randy Pitchford may need to personally pay people to play that one.
[source talk.turtlerockstudios.com]
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According to Steam's community page for eVolve there are only 1,068 players in game. Though I'm not sure you can really compare the PC market to PS4 market these days.
BF1 numbers were showing 100,000 PC players vs 98,000 XB1 Vs 200,000 PS4 players yesterday.
The game did have an absolutely ridiculous pricing strategy at launch. And no campaign either, I think that's a hard one to sell.
@LieutenantFatman
"The game did have an absolutely ridiculous pricing strategy at launch. And no campaign either"
Sounds like Overwatch
Didn't this have two season passes? Aswell as other not included DLC.
I think a massively split community and an asymmetrical MP monster hunting game pitched as a game of 'hide & seek' led to massive confusion about this game, so it never caught on.
Never played it myself, the original high price point for entry put me off.
Game should've been F2P from day one, expect the same thing to happen to Battleborn in a few months, cause dam that game is a wasteland.
@Xaessya The difference being Overwatch has enjoyable gameplay and online matches that aren't the same every time lol.
Laughing stock, yes. Battleborn also doesn't look all that bad, I just have no reason to bother making any room for animted brap brap.
Evolves dlc strategy basically put up the Vs to people on the fence making the decision to play something else a whole lot easier. Now Evolve is old news, its game over man, they may as well move on to something else.
@Xaessya Overwatch never claimed to have a campaign nor did it claim it was going to get one.
@PorllM The pure definition of repetition is a match of overwatch, or TF2 if you like the originals they stole it from. One team fights the other, half of each team go after kills instead of objectives, and people whine about broken characters and trash talk each other. Rinse and repeat.
@Napples You're not wrong about that but at least you can try different strategies, hit the objective from different angles, even have proper team plays if you have good communication. With Evolve, literally if you've played 5 matches you've seen everything the game will ever offer you.
I remember getting it off amazon for $30 last year and trading it in a few weeks later as finding a match was too often a 10 minute wait and my patience gets worn after a couple minutes.
No loss with either game as both are rubbish.
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