'Steam Charts Don't Measure Fun' – Splitgate Dev Chimes in After Players Express Fear Over PC Launch Numbers

1047 Games has immoderate thoughts regarding however Splitgate: Arena Reloaded is faring connected Steam, and it’s got a connection for fans: “Steam Charts don’t measurement fun.”

The Halo and Portal-inspired FPS re-launched December 17 for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S aft the workplace chose to U-turn with an wide rework for Splitgate 2 backmost successful July 2025. It was a determination made amid layoffs astatine 1047 that saw some the sequel and its fashionable predecessor pulled offline arsenic the workplace promised to instrumentality with “big, sweeping changes.”

Those changes seemingly failed to pull players, with conscionable astir 2,300 players logging successful to play the free-to-play crippled connected Steam astatine motorboat and a small much than 800 playing astatine the clip of this piece’s work (via SteamDB). The Splitgate assemblage rapidly drummed up statement astir what different disappointing motorboat could mean for the aboriginal of the shooter, but 1047 has a antithetic take.

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“Steam Charts don’t measurement fun,” a connection from the squad says. “They amusement 1 number, connected 1 platform, astatine 1 fixed moment. They don’t amusement the afloat representation oregon what it feels similar to really play, and they decidedly don’t seizure the assemblage that’s actively helping signifier what Arena Reloaded is becoming (including upcoming contented similar Arena Royale).”

It’s hard to abstracted Splitgate: Arena Reloaded’s motorboat subordinate numbers from the astir 26,000 users who showed up for Splitgate 2, but 1047’s targeted effect does purpose to punctual players that the re-launch besides came to consoles and the Epic Games Store. Metrics for those platforms aren’t arsenic openly disposable arsenic they are for Steam, truthful it’s unclear if involvement is likewise quiescent elsewhere.

Regardless, the workplace wants some seasoned and imaginable players to cognize it’s enactment enactment into getting Splitgate: Arena Reloaded acceptable for launch, and it doesn’t program connected slowing down anytime soon.

“To our astonishing community: convey you,” 1047 continues. “Your feedback and passionateness person helped marque Arena Reloaded amended each day.

“And to everyone who hasn’t played yet: Arena Reloaded is free, the gameplay’s the champion it’s ever been, and we’d emotion for you to leap successful and signifier your ain opinion. A batch of passionate radical worked precise hard connected it.”

As 1047 takes to societal media to combat the antagonistic sentiment surrounding its re-launch effort, its Arena Royale constituent is expected to motorboat successful the adjacent future. Splitgate: Arena Reloaded came with a rebuilt progression system, caller and reworked maps, and more. We gave Splitgate 2 a 7/10 reappraisal upon its motorboat past year.

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