Simply days after Redfall’s one-year anniversary, Microsoft has introduced it’s shutting down the studio behind it, Arkane Austin, and ending all additional growth on the vampire shooter. That features its promised Hero DLC which some followers already paid for within the $100 Chew Again version of the Xbox console unique.
“Redfall’s earlier replace will probably be its final as we finish all growth on the sport,” Matt Booty, head of Microsoft studios, wrote in an electronic mail to workers, in accordance with an electronic mail shared by IGN. “The sport and its servers will stay on-line for gamers to take pleasure in and we’ll present make-good affords to gamers who bought the Hero DLC.”
Redfall’s much-hyped Recreation Cross launch included a $100 Chew Again version of the sport that will give gamers entry to 2 further heroes sooner or later. The multiplayer loot shooter was a multitude when it got here out, nevertheless, with gameplay that felt shallow and programs that had been often busted. Arkane launched a sequence of updates to handle lackluster fight and poor enemy AI, and instructed followers final November that it will have extra to share concerning the Hero DLC in 2024.
Final summer time, then Bethesda VP Pete Hines promised that Redfall would get higher within the following years. “We’re going to get it to be a very good recreation as a result of we all know, as a first-party studio, Recreation Cross lives eternally,” he instructed Gamesindustry.biz on the time. “There will probably be individuals ten years from now who’re going to hitch Recreation Cross, and Redfall will probably be there.” Final week, Kotaku reported that the sport’s remaining followers felt disillusioned over the continued silence across the recreation’s future on the eve of its first anniversary.
It’s not clear what “make-good” Microsoft is planning on providing gamers who bought the Chew Again version or the $30 improve for the Recreation Cross model. The “worth of the improve” talked about by Arkane in their very own assertion can be ambiguous. Kotaku reached out to the corporate for touch upon whether or not refunds will probably be one of many choices.
