Valve is rebooting its failed Dota 2 card game Artifact, the corporate announced on the game’s official Steam web page.
“First off, we wanted to say thanks for all of your tweets, emails and posts,” the publish begins. “The continued curiosity in Artifact has been encouraging, and we sincerely respect the entire suggestions!
“You might notice some changes soon – we are starting tests on our systems and infrastructure. This shouldn’t impact live Artifact but we wanted to give you a heads up.”
This assertion comes two years after the CCG technique game’s dismal launch.
In 2018, Artifact experienced a steep decline in its concurrent participant numbers simply weeks after its preliminary launch. Artifact launched in late November of that yr, and rapidly hit Steam’s high 5 with a concurrent player-count of 60,740. But only a month later numbers have been already dropping drastically – shedding nearly 80 p.c of its participant base.
Valve’s announcement of the Artifact reboot follows feedback made by Gabe Newell this week concerning the “interesting failure” of the game. Speaking to Edge Magazine (through GamesRadar), Newell confirmed Valve is engaged on a bigger reboot of the game which is being referred to internally as Artifact 2.
“Artifact was an interesting failure in its first go-round,” he mentioned. “We have been shocked. We thought that it was a very sturdy product.
“We ran an experiment, we acquired a destructive outcome, and now we have to see if we’ve realized something from that, so let’s strive once more.
“And that’s what [the Artifact team] have been doing and that’s what they’re getting ready to release. Based on the reaction to it, what was wrong with the product? How did we get there? Let’s fix those things and take another run at it.”
More info is predicted following the launch of Half-Life: Alyx.
