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By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 07/07/2016

 

Evolve is going free-to-play (which explains why it's been removed from Steam) - and its developers have opened up about the game's troubled launch.

Love it or hate it, Evolve had one of the best logos in the business.

 

Evolve, a four-versus-one shooter, launched in February 2015 to great expectation, but its appeal was dampened by a convoluted downloadable content plan that involved three editions of the game and a season pass that sliced the game up into little bits and pegged monsters and hunters for release later down the line.

 

At the time, Turtle Rock co-founder Phil Robb pointed to publisher 2K, which, he said, was selling Evolve. Turtle Rock, he pointed out, was the developer.

 

"Ultimately, TRS makes the games, we don't sell them," he said at the time, "and as the developers we've done our best to make a game that people want to play. We then have to trust our publisher to make the best decision on how to sell that game."

 

Unfortunately for Evolve, its active player base dwindled shortly after the game came out - despite it going on to shift 2.5m units. That, we thought, was that. But now Turtle Rock has announced Evolve is going free-to-play on PC - and its gameplay has been re-jigged.

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3 minutes ago, LostCat said:

Does anyone even play Battleborn?  I know I wasn't a big Borderlands fan but I've barely even heard of it :huh:

Less than 1000 PC players at peak now. 767 players yesterday, 641 the day before.

 

http://steamspy.com/app/394230

 

Apparently the console numbers are better...

Battleborn had the unfortunate plan to launch alongside Overwatch and the overwatch hype train. and on top of that, it kept getting compared to overwatch even if it's mostly a completely different type of games and the devs/publishers didn't help it by even using overwatch comparisons in what little PR there was... 

And that it is F2P was not a reason for it to leave Steam - there are plenty of F2P games that are on Steam; in fact, there are games that went F2P SINCE arriving on Steam.  DC Universe Online went F2P since arriving on Steam; Planetside 2 (same publisher) was F2P from the beginning.  Global Agenda transitioned to F2P after it arrived on Steam - like the others, it is still on Steam today.  I call shens.

 

And I was dead right; Evolve is STILL on Steam - in fact, I'm downloading it from there right now.  (Ooooops.)

 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/273350/

 

(Evolve Stage 2 on Steam)

 

11 hours ago, PGHammer said:

And that it is F2P was not a reason for it to leave Steam - there are plenty of F2P games that are on Steam; in fact, there are games that went F2P SINCE arriving on Steam.  DC Universe Online went F2P since arriving on Steam; Planetside 2 (same publisher) was F2P from the beginning.  Global Agenda transitioned to F2P after it arrived on Steam - like the others, it is still on Steam today.  I call shens.

 

And I was dead right; Evolve is STILL on Steam - in fact, I'm downloading it from there right now.  (Ooooops.)

 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/273350/

 

(Evolve Stage 2 on Steam)

 

Nobody said it left Steam altogether? The EG article mentions that the paid version was removed to be replaced by the F2P version.

On 7/12/2016 at 7:07 AM, Andrew said:

Nobody said it left Steam altogether? The EG article mentions that the paid version was removed to be replaced by the F2P version.

Eurogamer's original post said that the game left Steam - then mentioned that it "evolved" to Stage 2 (still on Steam) - which is where I downloaded stage 2 from.

 

The original source post stated that the game going F2P is why it left Steam; that was the reason for my counterpost- as quite a few titles transitioned to F2P and never left (DC Universe Online, Global Agenda, and Champions Online are still on Steam today - none were F2P when they started on Steam).

22 hours ago, PGHammer said:

Eurogamer's original post said that the game left Steam - then mentioned that it "evolved" to Stage 2 (still on Steam) - which is where I downloaded stage 2 from.

 

The original source post stated that the game going F2P is why it left Steam; that was the reason for my counterpost- as quite a few titles transitioned to F2P and never left (DC Universe Online, Global Agenda, and Champions Online are still on Steam today - none were F2P when they started on Steam).

The first line has a URL embedded in the text which didn't carry over from C&P. It links to the news when Evolve was removed from Sale:

 

Evolve has been removed from sale on Steam

 

Not removed from or leaving Steam.

 

If you don't click through I can see the consfusion; it'd be better to say "Evolve is going free-to-play (which explains why it's been removed from sale on Steam) - and its developers have opened up about the game's troubled launch."

 

In more news:

 

Evolve Reaches 1 Million Players Since Going Free to Play

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