Xaviant has announced that it is cancelling The Culling 2. The game will be removed from Steam and the team will refund all those that have purchased it. Not only that, but the team has decided to invest on the first Culling and instead of chasing PUBG and Fortnite, it will now focus on the game’s strongest elements.
As a result of that, Xaviant will make The Culling free to play and will focus on its day1 version. The team will also release the day1 build of the game this week on the test servers.
Basically, after this horrendous launch, Xaviant decided to focus on what people liked about The Culling. And even though it took them a while to realize, it’s the best – and right – thing to do right now.
Here is hoping that the team will recover now that it has realized its mistake, especially if it improves every aspect of The Culling, improve its visuals/tech, and add new free content to it!
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Brutal.
Culling 2 cancelled. Culling 3: Day 1 in development.
Human trafficking is less risk averse and more profitable than game development. Not that I would know personally…
It’s pretty true!
SpaceKnotzy knows all too well.
Culling 2 cancelled. Culling 3: Day 1 in development.
Yeah! I can’t believe it! They want to get rid of the mainstream BR influences and focus on what was the best in the first game. I only hope devs will manage to attract enough people to populate the servers. It may be hard after earning this much notoriety.
I watched that Youtube video that they director put up about it, and while they did jump the gun in destroying the first game and making a second game that nobody wanted, you can hear the pain in the guys voice that it’s come down to this decision and at least they learned from their mistake and waste of money and are reverting the game back to the state people liked it in and making it F2P.
No matter how we all may feel about the second game being an absolute disaster in terms of what happened, this move does deserve some respect because it’s got to be a hard decision to make. A somebody who works in the music field, I couldn’t imagine spending money on the production costs of a whole soundtrack/album, releasing it and having it tanking and then offering it up for free with no recouped costs.
Bravo to these guys for even doing this.
As somebody who has to tell everyone what field I work in in every post…
Poor guy, he’s actually choking up. But is “Day 1” the launch release of Culling 1? It was ruined before it left Early Access, and he even acknowledges that in the video by saying no one was happy with it at launch and then moves on to say everyone loves it. I’m confused. I want the Early, Early Access gameplay back where melee was actually good and mindgames against others was a big thing.
So they are culling The Culling!