Valve ends development of digital card game 'Artifact' which was disastrous sales and makes it completely free
Announced that it will end the development of the digital card game '
Artifact-Future of 'Artifact'-Steam News
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/583950/view/3047218819080842820
Valve scraps revamped Artifact, dumps free, unfinished “2.0” version on Steam | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/03/valve-scraps-revamped-artifact-dumps-free-unfinished-2-0-version-on-steam/
Valve has ended development on Artifact --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22314103/valve-ending-development-artifact-tcg-dota-2
Artifact is a card game based on the world view of the popular battle strategy game 'Dota 2 ', which holds competitions totaling billions of yen each year. Developed by Valve, which has produced many titles in the history of games such as the ' Half-Life ' series, ' Portal ' series, and ' Counter-Strike ' series, and known as the creator of 'Magic the Gathering'. Richard Garfield, who is also involved in the development, received a lot of attention when it was released in November 2018.
Artifact, which appeared with noise in this way, showed a good start with 60,000 simultaneous connected players immediately after its release, but its reputation was not good, and it is reported that 'the number of users has decreased by 97% in 2 months of distribution'. Clean up. It was reported that the number of simultaneous players could reach less than 1700.
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In response to these plights, Valve has launched a large-scale renovation called 'Artifact 2.0 Beta'. Valve was trying to get the user back by freeing the card purchase system, which was a big complaint right after the release, and diluting the luck factor of placement as much as possible.
However, on March 5, 2021, 'We have achieved most of our goals for game content, and while we are quite happy with this, we are able to get enough active users to justify the future development of the game. I couldn't do it, 'he said, announcing the discontinuation of Artifact 2.0 beta. In the future, the unfinished Artifact 2.0 beta will be renamed to 'Artifact Foundry' and the pre-Artifact 2.0 beta version will be renamed to 'Artifact Classic', and will be distributed completely free of charge.
'Artifact Foundry' and 'Artifact Classic' can be downloaded and played from the Artifact page on Steam.
Steam: Artifact
https://store.steampowered.com/app/583950/Artifact/
Valve wrote an article reporting the end of Artifact development: 'Thanks to all Artifact players, especially to everyone who helped finish Artifact Foundry. The team is grateful. We believe this is the best approach to the community. We are proud to have worked on the development of the two games and look forward to reaching more gamers. ' is.
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