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[Men_in_Boxes]

Wildgate, the 5 teams of 4, Battle Royale is approaching Concord level player numbers. The studio, Moonshot Games, is seemingly hanging on for dear life. Here's Creative Director Dustin Browder explaining what's coming in the next two months...




TLDW:

- Trying to get Reach anomalies (map PoI's and modifiers) out quicker.
- Game is too sweaty so they're creating a more casual "extraction lite" mode.
- Creating a 2 man crew size ship because players didn't like randomly joining 4 man crews.

 

[Loomy]

It's unfortunate when genuinely cool experiences die like this is probably going to.

 

[Fbh]

Wasn't this one of the games you told us was a surefire hit and the biggest piece of evidence that there's no saturation in the Battle Royale space?

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Wasn't this one of the games you told us was a surefire hit and the biggest piece of evidence that there's no saturation in the Battle Royale space?

Please don't use the NeoGAF advanced search on that.

It's unfortunate when genuinely cool experiences die like this is probably going to.

I think it's cooked too but it does look like the publisher is giving them 6+ months post release to figure it out. The game definitely has a number of rough edges that shouldn't have been there.

 

[Pop]

It's unfortunate when genuinely cool experiences die like this is probably going to.

Nah

Space pvp doesn't make it uniquely cool. Game was boring

 

[Xyphie]

The other Dreamhaven game, Sunderfolk isn't doing too hot either with 57 people in-game on Steam. The streak of ex-Blizzard games flopping continues, guess Arkheron is next.

 

[Minari]

cmon man let that shit fkin die already lol
it was never a truly good mmorpg anyway

 

[Guilty_AI]

Was it ever alive?

 

[Loomy]

Nah

Space pvp doesn't make it uniquely cool. Game was boring

A PvPvE game that isn't a straight up FPS or an MP game that isn't a hero shooter or a BR game. Not saying it was perfect, but it could have been made better with player feedback.

cmon man let that shit fkin die already lol
it was never a truly good mmorpg anyway

Not only was it not an RPG, it wasn't even an MMO!

 

[DirtInUrEye]

I'd have probably played it if they didn't have portals, as I enjoy the feel of the movement and shooting

 

[Minari]

A PvPvE game that isn't a straight up FPS or an MP game that isn't a hero shooter or a BR game. Not saying it was perfect, but it could have been made better with player feedback.


Not only was it not an RPG, it wasn't even an MMO!

i played that shit for an hour or so and turned it off.
when it became free

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

A PvPvE game that isn't a straight up FPS or an MP game that isn't a hero shooter or a BR game. Not saying it was perfect, but it could have been made better with player feedback.

Dustin Browder is an old school Blizzard guy. I think your point here is right on.

Bake it in the oven for 5 years and then reveal it near launch so the dev team can't do anything. They seem to be very receptive to player feedback now but it's probably too late. What would this game have looked like if players got their hands on it 2 years ago? The biggest travesty of 2025.

 

[Loomy]

Dustin Browder is an old school Blizzard guy. I think your point here is right on.

Bake it in the oven for 5 years and then reveal it near launch so the dev team can't do anything. They seem to be very receptive to player feedback now but it's probably too late. What would this game have looked like if players got their hands on it 2 years ago? The biggest travesty of 2025.

Here's hoping Jump Space fares better. Apparently they've sold over 250k copies and their full roadmap is now possible, so there's hope there.

 

[Spyxos]

Wanted to get it, but player count is too low, and price is too high for such a game.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Crap game. Even got meh reviews.

Most gamers probably never even heard of it.

Lesson to game studios and publishers. Unless you got a well known IP everyone knows another game is coming (Fifa, Cod etc…), you might want to spend some money marketing the game unless it's an indie game with ultra low development where a couple thousand gamers here or there is enough to be financially worth it.

It's like 95% of game makers just release whatever they feel like making and assume gamers will just buy it.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Wanted to get it, but player count is too low, and price is too high for such a game.

I suspect their last Hail Mary will be going F2P in a few months. Might be worth checking out then, after it receives a number of additions and QoL improvements.

 

[LordCBH]

I don't even know what a wild gate is

 

[Munkyspace]

i played that shit for an hour or so and turned it off.
when it became free

Are you thinking about Wildstar? Nothing you've said so far in this thread has made any sense.

 

[Guilty_AI]

I don't even know what a wild gate is

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[Minari]

Are you thinking about Wildstar? Nothing you've said so far in this thread has made any sense.

Lol yeh Wildstar, i misread lol

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Wait was this actually related to wild star? If so that's wild(pun intended), and incredibly moronic.
I always thought this looked like wildstar.
The current gaming landscape mirrors the mmorpg era of devs chasing wow dollars and failing spectacularly.

I should try a battle royal, that's a neat trick.

 

[Danjin44]

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