The makers of Battlerite and its spin-off Battlerite Royale have introduced plans to ‘scale back’ improvement of their free-to-play MOBA-ish multiplayer murderzones, saying the 2 merely aren’t doing properly sufficient to be their fundamental focuses. Stunlock Studios reassure gamers that the games aren’t shutting down they usually would possibly return to them, however proper now they don’t have any plans for extra massive updates after Season 3, which begins subsequent week. Our Matt gushed praised in his Battlerite review and enjoyed his time with Royale however, alas, they’ve simply not discovered the gamers they want.
“We’ve seen declining player numbers and player investment for a while now, and diminishing returns on all of our latest gameplay changes and marketing campaigns,” Stunlock defined in yesterday’s announcement. “While players are willing to try out Battlerite and Battlerite Royale for a while, retaining them has always been our biggest challenge.”
Competition for consideration and playtime between free-to-play multiplayer games is fierce.
“With the state of the current playerbase we’re no longer in a position where working on Battlerite and Battlerite Royale are sustainable as main projects for the studio,” Stunlock say. “Battle Season 3 and the associated Battle Pass will be the last that we have planned for the foreseeable future. We are exploring ideas for development after Battle Season 3, and will announce any potential plans closer to the end of the Season.”
So they might add extra, or they might not. Season Three ends on October 23rd, and we must always hear extra round then. What we do know for sure is a few in-development options won’t be completed. The event system, which Stunlock notice they’ve been engaged on “for a long, long time now,” is a gonner. They apologetically say “it remains to be one of our greatest regrets for Battlerite that we weren’t able to complete it for you.”
This doesn’t look the top of Battlerite but, thoughts, nor of Stunlock. The servers are staying up they usually’re planning one other game.
“We’ll be taking everything we’ve learned from Battlerite – what worked, what didn’t work, what we could have done better, and more – to the next game and growing from it all,” they are saying. “You’ll hear from us again in the future on the future development plans for Battlerite and when our next project is ready.”
If you’re gonna battle, Battlerite (ceremony) battle with me.
