Turtle Rock studios ends development on evolve today.

[Jtbrig7390]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/10/...ort-for-evolve

Turtle Rock Studios announced today is the final day it will support Evolve, its competitive, multi-player shooter.

"It’s always hard to leave one of our games behind," Turtle Rock said in a post on its official forums, mentioning the same sense of melancholy permeated the studio as when it ended support of Left4Dead, "but now it's Evolves turn."

In July, Evolve on PC switched to Evolve Stage 2, making the game free-to-play. As a result, the Evolve player count rose to 1 million within a week of the switch.

Turtle Rock said there was a lot it had hoped to do with the game, including introducing Evolve Stage 2 to consoles, but "it looks like that’s just not meant to be."

Turtle Rock also pointed out the end of support for Evolve isn't its decision, but rather part and parcel of being a triple-A developer who isn't "self-funded" and doesn't own its IP.

"We don’t get to make the call," it said.

After thanking THQ, who "initially believed in" the studio when it was small, and thanking 2K for "picking up the mantle out of THQ’s bankruptcy," Turtle Rock Studios took the chance to thank its fans.

"Thank you all for your feedback, your support and your dedication."

Loved the concept and the f2p change did some good. But Evolve is the perfect example of how to not handle this type of game or really any game.

R.I.P Evolve.

[Edge-]

No they didn't, they're just no longer working on it. No word on if anyone will be taking over, but the servers will remain live for the time being.

[MonsieuRoberts]

Ending support isn't the same as shutting down a game, although one does eventually follow the other.

[barackopala]

2k games fucking it up with turtle rock studios yay, a game that was trashy that got "revived" got back to the bin!

[Jtbrig7390]

No they didn't, they're just no longer working on it. No word on if anyone will be taking over, but the servers will remain live for the time being.

They no longer support the game, mite as well be the same thing. No balance fix's,Content updates or anything.

The servers will be closed soon that is a given since the game barely pulls 1k players at peak time on steam.

No telling how dead it is on consoles.

[dope_danny]

They no longer support the game, mite as well be the same thing. No balance fix's,Content updates or anything.

The servers will be closed soon that is a given since the game barely pulls 1k players at peak time on steam.

No telling how dead it is on consoles.

turtle rock never owned the rights, their contract expired. Either 2K -who owns it entirely- has an inhouse team work on it, outsources it to some studio who makes freemium games in Korea or something or they shut it down. Its not technically dead yet. No more than it has been for the last year.

[Edge-]

They no longer support the game, mite as well be the same thing. No balance fix's,Content updates or anything.

Not at all. Look at Guild Wars, the game has been in maintenance mode for what...4 years I think? I don't believe ArenaNet has a single person working full time on the game period, it's all automated for the most part.

That's not to say that it's likely that the game is not long for this world, but the game is most assuredly not shut down nor has there been an announcement of its closure. Remember, 2K owns this game, not Turtle Rock.

The servers will be closed soon that is a given since the game barely pulls 1k players at peak time on steam.

No telling how dead it is on consoles.

Well, it's not F2P on consoles yet so probably completely dead like it was on PC before the transition.

[Ealyssa]

Didn't even knew the game switched F2P. Bad communication, would have tried it actually.

Guess nothing of value will be lost.

[Jtbrig7390]

Well, it's not F2P on consoles yet so probably completely dead like it was on PC before the transition.

Don't see the consoles getting the f2p treatment ether

including introducing Evolve Stage 2 to consoles, but "it looks like that’s just not meant to be.

The game barely has anyone playing if at all. Even if they are not saying its getting shutdown this announcement will be enough to make the rest leave.

My early'er post still stands. This is a perfect example on how to not handle a game even more so one of this style.

Says a lot when DBD can rock 20k players but Evolve can barely get 1k.

[Edge-]

Says a lot when DBD can rock 20k players but Evolve can barely get 1k.

What's DBD? >.>

[Jtbrig7390]

What's DBD? >.>

Dead by Daylight.

(Playing it right now, They just did a big update today)

[Jtbrig7390]

The game is fun as hell, but its god damn broken =(

Its much better then it was but ya there is still some parts broken.

Michael Myers is fun tho

[Jtbrig7390]

Iunno, not getting even near that DLC.
7€ for 1 killer + 1 surv. for a game with such optmization and balancing issues =/ meh...

They also added a map. They have tweaked a lot of stuff with this patch and for me at lease the optmization is fine. This patch also set it up where rank 20's shouldn't be facing rank 1's and so on.

So far I been impressed with this patch. The shrine idea is cool as well.

[Rucati]

Good, maybe people will realize that if you sell a boring multiplayer only game for $60 and then have the audacity to sell cosmetic items for more money on top of that people aren't going to be playing your game.

Ignoring the fact that the game was super boring, the fact that they charged such a crazy price for it definitely didn't help them, they should have just done free to play with cosmetics in the first place and maybe they would have had a better success chance.

[Poppincaps]

Didn't even knew the game switched F2P. Bad communication, would have tried it actually.

Guess nothing of value will be lost.

I mean everyone was talking about it at the time and the number of players jumped massively. Definitely not bad communication, it just flew under your radar.