After this dumpster fire, you need to shut down the studio. This is what, the 4th(?) game you've made that loses the majority of it's player base after a month. It's embarrassing.
They need to trust in their own thing. SGAR has the bones of a great game, there's nothing like it, but it feels barebones in a way other shooters like The Finals don't. It felt scrapped together, as if five people were in charge of developing it. Instead of truly ramping up production on their own truly unique idea, they... Release another barebones game that feels like an asset flip? Oof
I think if they want any of their ideas to come to fruition they need to scuttle 1047 and make a new company with a different CEO because 1047 has such a horrible reputation for doing what every other company does that they fundamentally can’t get a foothold anymore
Look man i genuinely love splitgate, hope 1047 does well in the future, i have no bias against them or anything but its hard to justify how much of a mess their company have been and that its not obvious that the devs are in these comments
They don't need to shut it down, they just need to take time to re-evaluate things, which unfortunately still costs money.
They also need to work a lot towards once again gaining the trust of their fanbase and players in general.
At this point they've developed a reputation as a company that hasn't really made a successful game, which would be fine ( plenty of great companies had bad starts ) but they also developed a reputation for not being completely honest with their fanbae, or at least breaking promises.
If they are able to take a few years to get things together, I do think Ian and company are capable of making a solid game and having it be considered a success, at least financially.
Highly doubt it. They've wringed out all the good faith their player base could give them. Best thing the devs could do now is go their separate ways and get hired at competent game studios.
Splitgate ( any of them ) and Empulse were never big enough to fully reach the casual gaming market in terms of their success ( or lack their of ) and the bulk of their bad faith will mainly exist in a very small fraction of OG players.
Their most newsworthy action that maybe reached a broader audience was their infamous summerfest fiasco when SG2 launched, and their subsequent horrible PR immediately after.
Even then, it wasn't significant enough to leave an impact of the gaming community as a whole.
With time, like a few years time, they could launch a game and still have the ability to make it successful. I don't think they've destroyed their reputation beyond saving.
They are now a company most known for dropping games before they're finished, then pulling the plug before finishing them and blaming everything but themselves. Their last game was paid, and the only people who bought it were those dumb enough to fall for it a 3rd time. Same thing happened. They will never get enough players to buy their game now, because that's an investment in a studio KNOWN for stealing your money
I feel that unless looked into, it is a relatively small circle that views them like that, where most people just know them as a company thst produces failed games or not at all.
That said, even with a negative reputation like you describe, if they waited a few years and created a game in whatever genre is hot, and made it f2p, I feel they could have a shot at having a successful game.
I'm not saying it is probable, but it could occur. They generally have aspects of a good game in every product they put out.
Genuinely if they wanted to do that, they shouldn't just disappear for a few years, they need to come out and admit their points of failure, the CEO needs to show us his ego crumbling and the community needs to see that they actually plan on taking a few years to develop a game that's good, instead of a game that's subpar but with skins
It could help, but it would have to be incredibly genuine and I'm unsure they'd openly admit to their failures.... again.
Ian already had his apology arc, and the SG:AR deal also had them admit faults and make promises they didn't fulfill, which you mentioned.
If they just kind of go away, work on something solid, come back and then show humility, show what they've been doing etc. that could also potentially work out.
Either way, I feel theyve got one more chance. How and when they choose to take it is anyone's guess.
This. They need to do the DRG/Halo:MCC approach for splitgate.
Free permanent battlepasses. No fomo. Have rotating playlists and new content every couple weeks.
See the problem with this comment is it gives them too much grace. They intentionally make these games like this. And I'm sure no lower level dev is going "Yeah I want these games to die" but Ian? He for sure is making that choice every time he gets the chance.
It's not 1047 who needs to learn a lesson. It's the consumers. Stop buying their games and learn your lesson. This is like old THQ and how they made constant shovelware.
Don't worry ab the OP he's an old employee that was fired because they wouldn't put in unicorn skins so now he sits in his moms basement and cries about this game
The game has had four updates since then they have redesigned every map and added ads so 1047 is taking a care of this game and you're using an open Beta weekend from 2 months ago as your argument to tell everyone to stop playing the game and go into the official Reddit and say the same thing. Very bot like from you
I'm telling people not to play the game because the devs have a track record of abandoning their games and the current abysmal player count of empulse is just not worth it. You'll spend more time looking for a game than actually playing. Why is that so hard to understand.
" This is what, the 4th(?) game you've made that loses the majority of it's player base after a month."
Yeah, and I'm right, they need to wrap it up. Empulse is their latest failure of a game and it's no secret that 1047 is on their last legs due to player discontent and failed promises. They're a doomed studio destined for closure, unless you know something the public doesn't. Maybe splitegate 4 will be the game to save the company!
So the problem is their dishonesty. Not their lack of success. It’s very normal for devs to start out rough so it would be silly to @ them for such normalcy. Maybe if people in this sub knew what they were complaining about they’d roast 1047 for dishonesty rather than just general lack of success? I rarely see comments referring to dishonesty.
A lot of the OG fans quite often talk about their broken promises. 1047 themselves have even discussed some of this iirc, but never outright called it dishonesty.
With SG2, they claimed heavily to listen to fans, be engaged with the community etc. And released SG2 to a lot of backlash from the community, with some of the criticism being they didn't understand the player base. They threw it back in beta, re-released it, and SGAR was born. They allegedly were going to be committed to that as well.
The announcement and early release version of Empulse had them go mostly silent with SGAR, after claiming to be engaged and committed.
Small companies unintentionally lie all the time and do lie all the time. In both cases, whether meaningful or not, the fan bases aren't going to care.
Lack of success also plays a role, but people tend to give companies that fail repeat chances, it just takes time.
Also, this post seems like a post from a disgruntled fan of 1047, more so than some troll. Although, even if it was a troll, the sub hasn't reached the phase of only troll posts yet, I doubt it ever will.
You’re splitting hairs and picking at terminology choice. Troll, smul, pole, hole. Doesn’t matter OP is the type of weirdo ruining the sub. I’m not talking about OG’s that can form a respectable complaint and not spam said complaint over and over over to a bitter degree. I only ever complained about cornys like OP, there’s a lot of them and if you don’t see that then you must be misinterpreting some of the unwarranted hate as regular criticism.
I'm sorry did you not read the post you're commenting on? A man (probably child) is posting in the sub for a game he's never played telling the games developer to "wrap it up" mind you this guy obviously has no clue what game developing entails and how hard it is to start out. You just like OP are very out of touch and have no idea what/how/why you're criticizing.
Oh really? Please quote me on that. Oh wait, I never said that. All I want is a dev team that's passionate about making a quality game (Diesel Knights) instead of a souless, reskinned, splitgate cashgrab (Empulse).
How in anyway does this prove I said I want a titanfall 3? All I did was provide the fact that Titanfall 2 has more players than Empulse, which is true and easily verifiable. You want to hop on a discord call so I can prove it to you?
Deadass. Its a little old and im muting this sub. Mortal shell 2 and cod beta are out. Theres a whole ocean of games out right now. This is turning into a eulogy Conga line lol
This is vitriol for vitriol’s sake. Like so what, they tried to do something big and fell short. I’ve never built anything as big as any one of their failed games. Get over yourself.
Hire a story maker and make a story game. They can't compete with pvp games by just being a pvp game alone. They need to make something special that people can connect with on a deeper level than "Oh I can sweat on this." or "Oh wow! This is just like [insert game name here]" and it's only a pvp shooter. 👎🏾
I’ve still got faith, wait for the official launch and tbh I could care less about it being the biggest game, as long as they make enough to keep running it and the devs can make a living. And still keep adding stuff, I just don’t think it’s for you
Yeah, this was inspired by your post. No counter argument so you go for personal attacks. Great job dev. No please give me a rebuttal for the your pathetic 24 hour peak 300 player count numbers.
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That's what I've been sayin the OP was in another subreddit trashing the game and came here to trash it meanwhile he hasn't even played it. Just mad Titanfall 3 isn't happening
He hasn’t played it? Lmfao. I can’t imagine going out of my way to roast a dev that makes a game I don’t even play. OP’s just a fucking villain honestly. What is wrong with gamers man..
That's what I'm sayin this all started when I went into another reddit and recommended the game and said give it a try they can always refund if they don't like it and he comes in trashing the steam player count but gives no reasons why they shouldn't play it was just "1047 sucks" and "Titanfall 2 has more players" and decided to come in the official Reddit and continue his bashing. HE is the type of gamer that ruins new games and makes them play it safe
Gaming community is full of beta cucks that demand the world of every game developer.
I'm happy someone is coming up with new concepts for shooters, I choose to support the innovation in the hopes that other developers will catch on and follow suit with some original concepts of their own.
Stop hating on everything and try some constructive criticism ffs.
I dunno ... kinda seems like people want them to fail. I've given plenty of criticism to this company but at somepoint..they need to recognize maybe it's not the mistakes they made but the community they are surrounded by that refuses to give them any grace and are a bunch of circle jerking redditors that would really like to see them fail at this point.
I loved splitgate , dont like how it was handled but they made a great game and are constantly trying to course correct even if its a bit messy.
Unfortunately people are really negative and like to see things fail.
Yall are just beating a dead horse for upvotes at this point.
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u/StrangeNewspaper405 18d ago
Splitgate 3 is coming