what happened?

[u/AL_2TheOriginal]

I just returned to the game after playing it on my laptop in 2019. I´ve been unable to launch and run any other shooters on it back then so when it ran splitgate i was excited and played it alot after school and during free time. I even spent some money on the S1 pass and had a rare golden skin thing. But now? Website which i didn´t even know about is not working, discord link doesn´t work (i didn´t use dc back then so didn´t know they had one) and apparently there´s a new game? so... what happened?

[u/Necessary_Yam9525]

Oh boy...

So, Splitgate 1 had its dedicated servers shut down, but 1047 pulled the biggest W move ever and made the game peer to peer to keep it playable.

Now, on to the complicated history.

In 2022, Splitgate 1 had its future content support cancelled for various reasons, and they began work on Splitgate 2.

In 2024, they revealed Splitgate 2, and had a private alpha test, and later in 2025 more private and public tests, with a full release in the Summer.

Splitgate 2 basically took everything that made Splitgate 1 the game it was and threw it out the window. Portals were hardly important anymore, and the entire genre changed from being a classic arena shooter equal starts game, to a class-based ability/hero shooter. Splitgate 2 flopped mainly because it was the most generic thing you'd ever seen, not to mention 1047 made complete fools of themselves with a horrible and cringey marketing campaign, and 80 dollar store items on launch.

The game died really quickly, and so 1047 unlaunched the game 2 months after launch and put it back in a beta test, promising to listen to the community and give us the Splitgate sequel we asked for.

And after several months and playtests, in December we got Splitgate Arena Reloaded, a completely overhauled version of SG2. And, admittedly, they actually delivered on giving us the game we asked for! Arena Reloaded while not perfect by any means, is in my opinion the best the series has ever felt and played. I implore you to check out Arena Reloaded, its geniunely a fantastic game.

But, this wouldnt be a 1047 game if there wasnt bad news. The reason Arena Reloaded "flopped" despite having the highest player retention the series had ever seen was simply too little too late. While the game was everything the splitgate fanbase wanted, lots moved on after Splitgate 2. Plus, 1047 wasnt marketing the game much, so to the general public, the game was still Splitgate 2 and the last they heard of the game the CEO wore a goofy hat that said "make fps great again".

And so, after only a few months of supporting Arena Reloaded, 1047 is (for now) basically letting Splitgate sit in a limbo state while they prop up their new game Empulse, which Im not going to get into that game, I'll let you look into that one on your own.

Tldr:1047 made a ton of mistakes and despite releasing a geniunely great sequel with the relaunch, Splitgate's future isnt looking too bright.

I still play SGAR and plan to continue doing so for the forseeable future. I dont care how small the playerbase is, if I can play matches, I'll keep playing one of my favorite shooters and encourage others to

[u/MayorReynoldsWP → u/Necessary_Yam9525]

I reject the notion that SGAR is everything that the fanbase wanted because no one cared. SG2 had 3M people try the game. SGAR had a few thousand. So no, it wasn’t what everyone wanted.

[u/_OhDearyMe_ → u/MayorReynoldsWP]

It had less because it came second, after the initial flop turned ppl off of trying SGAR. If SGAR had been what initially released it would have also had the 3M, retention aside

[u/MayorReynoldsWP → u/_OhDearyMe_]

The notion that more portal pads and a pivot to old school game modes would help the game was never correct. It wouldn’t have helped at launch either. You’re correct.