Free-to-Play Shooter Spectre Divide Shutting Down Weeks After Console Launch

Free-to-play 3v3 shooter Spectre Divide is being unopen down six months aft its archetypal motorboat successful September 2024, and conscionable weeks aft its accomplishment connected PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Its developer Mountaintop Studios is besides closing.

Moutaintop CEO Nate Mitchell confirmed the quality successful a connection published connected societal media today.

“Unfortunately, the Season 1 motorboat hasn’t achieved the level of occurrence we needed to prolong the crippled and support Mountaintop afloat,” explains the post.

The squad was optimistic pursuing the archetypal week, reporting the crippled attracted astir 400,000 players – with a highest concurrent number of astir 10,000 crossed each platforms.

“But arsenic clip has gone on, we haven’t seen capable progressive players and incoming gross to screen the day-to-day costs of Spectre and the studio,” the station continued. “Since the PC launch, we stretched our remaining superior arsenic acold arsenic we could, but astatine this point, we’re retired of backing to enactment the game.”

“We pursued each avenue to support going, including uncovering a publisher, further investment, and/or an acquisition. In the end, we weren’t capable to marque it work. The manufacture is successful a pugnacious spot close now.”

Spectre Divide volition beryllium taken offline wrong the adjacent 30 days, and immoderate wealth spent by players since the Season 1 motorboat volition beryllium refunded.

The quality comes contrary to reports successful October 2024 that Spectre Divide “isn’t going anywhere.”

“The servers aren’t shutting down, and the updates aren’t going to stop,” said Mitchell astatine the time, maintaining Mountaintop had “the funds to enactment Spectre for a agelong time.”

IGN’s affirmative preview of Spectre Divide successful August 2024 heaped praise connected the tactical 3v3 shooter for coming to the array with its intriguing Duality system, which saw players controlling 2 characters during matches. However, the quality of its accelerated shutdown comes connected the heels of a fig of different live-service fizzers, including the nonaccomplishment of Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Sony’s Concord.

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