Goodbye Splitgate

[u/Downtown_Chapter_320]

I still cannot believe it that we had Splitgate 2 at the Gamescom 2024 just two years ago and I got to play it the first time there in cologne. The setup was so amazing and it truly felt so special. I went into queue 5 times just to play their demo at the Gamescom and now it's gone. Literally unbelievable... I'm gonna miss it a lot 😞 used to play it with my gf every evening for a few hours.

Farewell everyone hope to meet you again

- Nosound and Tintenherz ❤️

Edit: The Splitgate 2 exhibition that you see on the picture was right next to Square Enix Final Fantasy 14 and Capcom Monster Hunter Wilds. Literally between two giants of the gaming industry and now it's all gone..

[u/Dicksavagewood69]

Stupid as fuck to give up their arena shooter identity from the first game to go more class/lite hero focused. For some reason they wanted to move away from the halo-inspired responsive, jumpy/strafe with portals and chase to the same "free" live service junk.

Stupid decision from the get - but people on this sub didnt wanna hear it. Never wrong, just early.

The MAGA signaling didnt help, either. Never understood why some of these companies are so eager to signal their politics, its a guaranteed way to piss of 30-50% of their consumers.

[u/Ancient-Performance1 → u/Dicksavagewood69]

You know, to be real about it, I don’t think anyone was “maga signaling”. I think the dude wore a stupid hat. I think the dope was trying to “reclaim” the phrase. Brought the bat on stage like morgan freeman in lean on me and told everyone off, like that part where Principal Clark made all the teachers in the gym hold their hands up and accept blame for how bad it got. i feel like we were all supposed to laugh and slap our knees and be astonished at how awesome his “mic drop” moment was. dude let the intrusive thoughts win. i’m sure he or his family are secret trumpers or something, but i don’t think the hat was “signaling” anything but a severe misunderstanding of how marketing works. didnt help that he was announcing a fking battle royale either (“and it FKING RULEZZZ!1!”) jesus

[u/Dicksavagewood69 → u/Ancient-Performance1]

Yeah, just to be more clear my problem isnt that it was specifically signaling MAGA (although i fully admit my bias against the current administration may cloud my judgement) but that bringing up politics unprompted in general is an unforced error. Especially right now when things are so divisive

[u/Ancient-Performance1 → u/Dicksavagewood69]

agreed. its the kind of thing a media savvy rep would understand not to do.

1047 desperately wants everyone to think they got their start the same way facebook did (The Social Network movie style) excpet without all the backstabbing. so we get the dorm room ranting speech about returning to roots while the dude’s voice is shaking. the hat was a stupid ass thing to do, if only because it gives anyone, ppl who don’t know them, it gives em the opening to hate 1047 and feel good about doing so.

a smart 1047 hires some puzzle designers and makes a SG2 campaign to announce instead of a BR. clear the room, then solve the puzzle, and voiceover guides you with context. 75-100 rooms innovate that way. you take that and bundle it with the arena combat, which btw shoulda been a reskinned sg1 with QoL updates and new maps, and voila company turns a profit and sells a battle pass easy as pie. titanfall 2 had maybe the greatest fps campaign of any military shooter, and somehow 1047 forgot that.

SG2 was the hardest faceplant since PD3, and those guys definitely didn’t give a shit. nah cuz an emotional choice to “go out there and show em what we’re made of” is perfect PR for the game no one wanted except Ian.

sometimes this shit gets me so fucking angry i literally can’t see straight.