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Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
PS5 Shooter Shutting Down Month After Launch, Bringing 2025's Total to 5
A recently released shooter is shutting down within the next 30 days, making it the fifth game to be sunset in 2025. Not only is Spectre Divide going offline, its studio Mountaintop is also closing down as it has run out of funding to keep the lights on. Spectre Divide, which is also available on PC and Xbox, launched on the PS5 on February 25. The free-to-play title is billed as a 'genre-evolving 3v3 tactical shooter driven by Duality.' Spectre Divide's Season 1 failed to garner enough players beyond the first week to warrant keeping servers live, especially since Mountaintop couldn't find a financial lifeline for itself. As a result, the game will go offline within the next month and the studio will close. Spectre Divide's microtransactions are being disabled with immediate effect and refunds are being issued. 'Game development is full of twists, turns, and surprises, and the industry has changed dramatically since we started the project in 2020,' Mountaintop wrote in a statement. 'Even though we missed the mark this time, we wouldn't trade the journey for anything.' The following games are being sunset in 2025 thus far: xDefiant Dauntless MultiVersus Resident Evil Re:Verse Spectre Divide The post PS5 Shooter Shutting Down Month After Launch, Bringing 2025's Total to 5 appeared first on PlayStation LifeStyle.
Al Bawaba
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Al Bawaba
Spectre Divide is shutting down alongside its developer
ALBAWABA - Shroud-fronted 3v3 tactical shooter "Spectre Divide" recently made headlines after news circulated that the game is shutting down alongside its developer Mountaintop Studios due to failing to secure a meaningful player base. Spectre Divide is shutting down, only six months after its release despite heavy promotions from popular streamer and content creator, Shroud who is best known for playing competitive games such as Valorant, Counter-Strike, Marvel Rivals, and more. Mountaintop's CEO said, "We pursued every avenue to keep going, including finding a publisher, additional investment, and/or an acquisition. In the end, we weren't able to make it work. The industry is in a tough spot right now." According to Steam Charts, only 65 players are playing the game right now with 337 for 24-hour peak. Spectre Divides's all-time peak was capped at 30,971 players (Steam-only numbers). Mountaintop also shared in a post, "We were optimistic about the first week, We've had ~400,000 players play, with a peak concurrent player count of ~10,000 across all platforms. But as time has gone on, we haven't seen enough active players and incoming revenue to cover the day-to-day costs of Spectre and the studio." The statement adds that Spectre Divide will close down after 30 days with paying players getting a refund for the money they spent since the game's first season. Another issue to take into account is that Spectre Divide was trying to compete in a heavily saturated genre with games like Riot Games' Valorant, and Valve's Counter-Strike 2 taken into account. People fear that the newly launched game, FragPunk might also suffer a similar fate. While many assumed that Shroud owned Spectre Divide, the streamer revealed in October 2024 that "The reality is that Mountaintop has been bringing Spectre to life since 2020, and the game belongs to Mountaintop," as reported by IGN.
