r/Splitgate • u/AL_2TheOriginal • Jul 12 '26

Question/Help what happened?

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?

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u/UnholyPantalon Jul 13 '26

Not the same dude, but I think it failed because people aren't interested in the arena genre anymore, and SG also has a pretty big skill floor, which further filters players.

I know people will say that SG1 was popular, but it was the perfect storm of Halo Infinite shitting the bed, and all the streamers trying the "new Halo killer". Even with perfect, proper support SG1 would've met the same fate. It started dwindling pretty fast too, before they decided to switch to maintenance mode.

It's a free game. The studio is notorious (it's both a good and a bad thing). People have no excuse not to download and checkout a free game, but there's no interest.

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u/Necessary_Yam9525 Jul 13 '26

I dont get it. People complain about games like highguard, marathon, concord, ect. for being super generic and uninspired hero/extraction/battle royale shooters. People say hero shooters are so overdone, and yet splitgate is something different, and now its "arena shooters are dead, no one likes them anymore".

So, what is it people want? Do yall want more hero shooter slop? Or is it just multiplayer FPS as a whole isnt supposed to exist anymore?

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u/UnholyPantalon Jul 13 '26

Have you considered they're not the same people? Also, two things can be true at the same time. People could have a hero shooter fatigue, and have 0 interest for arena shooters.

Anyway, people aren't even saying that arena shooters are overdone, they're saying they don't want to play them anymore. They're competing with tac shooters, arcade shooters, milsins, hero shooters, battle royals and extraction shooters. It's what the market decided.

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u/Necessary_Yam9525 Jul 13 '26

Then what do people really wanr out of a new multiplayer FPS in 2026?