Sean Halliday of PixelGate.co.uk writes:
''Much like every year within the video game industry, 2015 had a lot of bad to go with it’s good. With a number of publishers adopting much more abusive business practices, 2015 became more a year of frustration and concern more than anything else. From games releasing in barely working states, to games with barely any content, it’s a worrying sign for time ahead. This is worst of 2015.''
Back in 2016, Turtle Rock announced that support for its 4v1 monster-hunting shooter Evolve would end but fans wouldn't let it die.
From NME: "Evolve: Stage 2 had its multiplayer servers shut down back in 2018, but today players are once again able to matchmake and join peer-to-peer multiplayer games.
Several months ago, peer-to-peer functionality was lost for Evolve Legacy, which was the only way fans of the series could play with friends. Upon a multitude of players reaching out to publisher 2K, the issue was eventually fixed earlier in July. It seems 2K have gone a step further now, and reinstated peer-to-peer and matchmaking functionality for Evolve: Stage 2 after four years."
Yes so far because it's just the servers alone coming on and the console version never had the free-to-play update.
I imagine if they find people playing the PC version and enough players are enjoying it then they'd probably reconsider opening console as well but I wouldn't count on it.
The game was epic as a monster. Hunters were really boring to play as to me.
Evolve is an asymmetrical multiplayer experience born at the tail-end of the wrong era, in the multiplayer world.
Great idea but poorly executed and destined to fail from the begging. Only thing I’m grateful towards this game is that it’s the one that convinced me to never buy a game blind again.
Shadowrun for the Xbox 360/PC would of been a better example of a great online game that launched At the wrong time.
This could have become a massive game if it wasn't treated like a $5 prostitute
Good article. I didn't play it though so I wouldn't know if it's fun, but the sheer amount of pre-order bonuses and dlcs just sucked the desire from me. And I'm a big fan of l4d and l4d2. I hope that they learn from this and make their next game better, I certainly don't want them gone from the games industry.
I'd add in Destiny and to a lesser but no less worrying, Black Ops 3 - Pay to win microtransactions patched in post release is a terrible trend. They don't do it during review and purchase cycles, they wait until sales have been made and then drop it in. I'm sure if it were challenged it wouldn't be found legal.
Exclusive Interview about Evolve's "Successful" Launch
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Really just wish Left4Dead 3 came out instead of this game...*sigh*