Bungie hasn’t had a good time within the press these days; amid layoffs, reviews of a diminishing studio tradition and unannounced delays for identified initiatives, to an outsider’s perspective, issues aren’t wanting good.
To make issues worse, a better have a look at Future 2’s charts on SteamDB from Forbes reveals that participant depend has hit all-time franchise lows within the final month.
During the last 30 days the typical variety of gamers was solely 34,302, with a peak participant depend of 59,076, which is an general 18.6% loss in gamers in comparison with the earlier month, which itself noticed a 28.53% loss in gamers.
This additionally comes simply as nominations for this 12 months’s Sport Awards occasion listed Future 2 as a nominee for the “Greatest Group Help” class, to which the lately laid off neighborhood workforce from Bungie shortly identified the irony of the nomination.
Now it appears there’s much less help from the sport’s neighborhood than ever, and it’s as much as Bungie to restore what’s been damaged, if it could actually.
All bets are using on the approaching Remaining Form enlargement, which could possibly be delayed if latest reviews are to be believed, as Bungie is difficult at work to attempt to make it “unforgettable Future expertise.”
Hopefully it’ll have the ability to ship, in any other case this could possibly be the start of the downfall of what has been probably the most constant reside service video games ever.
Supply – [Forbes via VGC]