{"id":57312,"date":"2024-10-09T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/shroud-fronted-spectre-divide-isnt-dead-ceo-insists\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T14:00:42","slug":"shroud-fronted-spectre-divide-isnt-dead-ceo-insists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/shroud-fronted-spectre-divide-isnt-dead-ceo-insists\/","title":{"rendered":"Shroud-Fronted Spectre Divide Isn\u2019t Dead, CEO Insists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The CEO of the developer behind Spectre Divide<\/a>, a new free-to-play competitive multiplayer shooter fronted by streamer Shroud, has insisted the game isn\u2019t dead despite low player concurrent numbers.<\/p>\n

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Spectre Divide launched early September on PC via Steam, where it saw an encouraging 30,971 peak concurrent players. But that concurrent figure has fallen steadily since on Valve\u2019s platform where it has a \u2018mixed\u2019 user review rating. Yesterday, October 8, Spectre Divide had a peak of 2,769 concurrent players.<\/p>\n

Now, a month on from launch, Mountaintop Studios CEO, Nate Mitchell acknowledged the discourse around Spectre Divide low player numbers, but vowed to stick with the game.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that Spectre\u2019s concurrent player count is lower than we\u2019d all like.<\/section>\n

\u201cSome folks out there have declared Spectre \u2018dead,\u2019 mostly as a result of low concurrency,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cIt\u2019s true that Spectre\u2019s concurrent player count is lower than we\u2019d all like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell admitted that a PvP game like Spectre Divide needs lots of players for healthy matchmaking, and that without them, players will experience longer queues and less fair matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith that said, I can assure you that Spectre isn\u2019t going anywhere,\u201d he added. \u201cThe servers aren\u2019t shutting down, and the updates aren\u2019t going to stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf player count drops from here, we have strategies for bringing players together, like combining the matchmaking queues. And we’ll continue working toward bringing new players in. We love this game \u2013 we\u2019ve poured our heart and soul into it these past four years \u2013 and we\u2019re just getting started.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mitchell explained that Mountaintop is an independent studio with a small team, but \u201cwe have the funds to support Spectre for a long time. And I promise: We\u2019re going to make Spectre awesome together.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the future, Mitchell said the developers need some time \u201cto go heads-down, improve the game, and tackle some of your bigger asks,\u201d with Season 1 set to kick off in December or January. Priorities include client performance, ping and server regions, anti-cheat, and game stability.<\/p>\n

Last month, shortly after Spectre Divide launched, Mountaintop cut 13 staff, with Mitchell saying at the time that the layoffs “make sure we’re set up to support Spectre and its community for the long term.”<\/p>\n

Expanding on the reasoning now, Mitchell said: \u201cWe made the difficult decision to reduce our monthly spend to make sure we were set up to support Spectre for the long term. In the run up to launch, the studio grew from more than 85 devs to support a bigger live service roadmap. We\u2019re now back to around 75 full-time devs, but we have plenty of firepower to bring our plans to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As for Shroud\u2019s ongoing involvement, Mitchell said Mountaintop is still working with the streamer on future design iterations, \u201cand he\u2019s been helping us think through ways to make Spectre as compelling as possible for both community members and streamers.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, Mitchell stressed, Spectre Divide does not belong to Shroud, as some had assumed. \u201cThe reality is that Mountaintop has been bringing Spectre to life since 2020, and the game belongs to Mountaintop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Spectre Divide launched amid a tumultuous time for the video game market and in particular live service games. 2024 has seen a number of high-profile live service missteps, including the failure of Rocksteady\u2019s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League<\/a> and Sony\u2019s Concord<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Robert Reiners\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Go to Source (IGN.com)<\/a><\/p>\n

All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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