Not All Multiplayer Shooters Are Abandoned After 12 Months

Not All Multiplayer Shooters Are Abandoned After 12 Months

Some are abandoned and then picked up again years later, when everyone had forgotten all about them.

There are a lot of things wrong with multiplayer shooters these days, but not all of them are guilty of costing $80 then dying a year later. I mean, look at Tribes Ascend, a game released in 2012.

Three years old, and without an update since 2013, it got one today, and it’s a big one. The game has essentially been reset, with changes across to the board to classes, weapons and vehicles.

Fans seem pleased, and long-time players have had all their in-game currency (it’s a free-to-play gamed) and XP refunded so that they can spend it all over again.

Of course, that long silence wasn’t for nothing; Tribes had been left to die while developers Hi-Rez focused their efforts on Smite, so another way of looking at this is that it’s an…unabandoning?

Wish more games got a breath of fresh air like this, regardless of how minor or trivial it ends up being.


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