Turtle Rock Studios has just announced that it is ending its support for Evolve. Today is the last day that Turtle Rock Studios will be working on Evolve and after that, the game will be left to its fate (unless 2K Games assigns another studio to it).
As Turtle Rock Studios’ co-founder wrote on the official forum:
“We had huge aspirations for Evolve, and while we got to spend five and a half awesome years on planet Shear with a ragtag group of Planet Tamers and fearsome Monsters, it still doesn’t feel like enough – we were hungry for more but unfortunately today is the last day that Turtle Rock Studios can work on Evolve.”
Turtle Rock Studios will hold one final Evolve-themed Livestream on Thursday, October 27th, at 12 PM Pacific Time. The team will be talking about its experience on the project and will be answering fans questions.
Turtle Rock Studios’ co-founder claimed that the studio is not closing down, and that they have “lots of stuff in the works.”
To be honest, this announcement caught us off guard. Almost three months ago, 2K Games and Turtle Rock Studios announced that Evolve was going F2P.
For this F2P version of Evolve, Turtle Rock Studios worked on improving load times and overall performance, released new monsters, improved stability and fixed a number of bugs.
The game’s playerbase saw a big boost as soon as it entered its F2P state. After a month from its F2P release, Evolve’s playerbase had increased by 7307%.
According to a FAQ, the Evolve Stage 2 servers will remain online for the foreseeable future running the latest version (v2.16) of the game.
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Of course they won’t, they got their money’s worth out of that garbage.
LOL it went free and not even 2k players per day.
So now Evolve is being Left 4 Dead.
at least people are still playing l4d2 lollol.
4200 vs 850. Almost exactly 5x as many players
Nice game of words there. 😀
Well done!
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I’d say I didn’t see that one coming, but….. yeah.
The moment they went F2P it was really only a matter of time, depending on how fast the playerbase numbers dropped, & how many of the new guys actually spent money on the in-game items.
Pr*ck move morally, but business-wise, it’s a nice way to rake in the micro-transactions for a few more months before the thing goes & dies completely, all while coughing up nothing but the server costs, & those’ll only stay online so long as the game keeps turning them a decent profit, so if you’re interested in trying this out, your window of opportunity is rapidly closing.
Kinda sad for the people who spend 60 dollars on the game,only to find it out it went f2p after a year.
Thanks mate. Our therapy group is standing strong. Though we didn’t have to wait one year until it went Pay2Win to be willing to commit Seppuku. A couple hours in were enough…
good. since ALPHA me and others have been telling them whats wrong and we have only received bans and making it F2P (which never addressed like 100+ main issues on the forums…) to bad the studio isnt closing down, they are A-HOLES to everyone.
WE WILL KEEP SUPPORTING THE GAME WITH UPDATES they said!!!
*(Well, so long as you keep paying us…….)
No one will miss this cash grab!
No way this could have been avoided it was obvious from the getgo. When it was P2P it had like 100 players and it became F2P since they had no other choice , it spiked to +15k players instantly servers got alive again but people realized… what is going on in this clown fiesta game ? And in less than a month it got down to 1k , right now sits around 800 ~ and its going to keep declining as the time goes on.
So devs have no other trump cards to use since the F2P was already used , no more people to try their sh?tty game.
Also it could be guessed if you think about it , the latest Hunters were rehashes of the others , generally half of the hunters are rehashes of the other existing ones just change their skin , one of their skills and cal it for the day. It’s actually the only game i have seen this boredom then it comes from a developer.
It’s amazing how they haven’t flopped yet.
I mean… I had a really great time downloading the game and waiting for Steam to install it. There will always be that…
I wonder if The Division will ever go to a f2p model, as it certainly shows a perfect candidate for it.
Good riddance. Hopefully the devs won’t try to pull the same greedy sh*t with their next game.
Devs and publishers aren’t used to crazy DLC policies backfiring. The indutry still hasn’t learnt s**t from that episode…
Another asymmetrical game bites the dust. Who would have thought.
garbage game
“To be honest, this announcement caught us off guard. Almost three months ago, 2K Games and Turtle Rock Studios announced that Evolve was going F2P.”
Going F2P usually means last ditch effort to save a dying or already dead game, so no surprise at all.
“The game’s playerbase saw a big boost as soon as it entered its F2P state. After a month from its F2P release, Evolve’s playerbase had increased by 7307%.”
That’s people trying the game out. They probably all quit after a week or less. Also 7307% isn’t as impressive as it sounds. It means “existing playerbase * 74”. Evolve’s playerbase at that point may have been in the low hundreds which times 74 is still a small playerbase of thousands. 200 paying players before the switch would mean fewer than 14000 players in the F2P version. If only 1-10% of those people actually spend some money on the game this year you’d have 140-1400 small purchases (like single digits for some cosmetic item or whatever) this year. You’re not going to make more than pocket change for a company. It’s not sustainable.
Haha, that was completely unintentional 😛