Riot Video games has introduced it is going to finish growth of its preventing sport 2XKO on the finish of this yr as a consequence of poor uptake.
In an announcement revealed on its web site, the studio mentioned that following 2XKO’s full launch in January, it hadn’t attracted sufficient gamers for ongoing growth to be sustainable.
Servers will stay on past 2026, and 2XKO might be playable on all platforms, it claimed. Riot has additionally dedicated to including new content material all through the rest of this yr, together with two new characters.
“Over the previous few months, we’ve been monitoring 2XKO’s trajectory intently, and what we’ve seen is portray a transparent, constant image: whereas a number of you jumped in to strive the sport and there’s an unbelievable neighborhood that performs day-after-day, we haven’t seen sufficient gamers stick to the sport to get to a path towards sustainability,” it mentioned.
“By means of the remainder of 2026, we’ll be introducing content material, characteristic enhancements, and two new champions (Lux and Samira), with the intent to ship our ultimate bug repair patch in December of this yr. After that, servers will stay on to help on-line play. Offline play is unaffected. We’ll give superior discover if any of that modifications.”
From right this moment, Riot will unlock all characters within the sport, bundling “most” beauty objects, and refunding all cash spent on 2XKO on or earlier than August 20.
“Any content material owned is yours to maintain,” Riot mentioned. “Avatar and participant profile objects might be unlockable for Credit. This may occur in patch 1.3.1 (September). Extra data on this beneath.
“Our aim now could be to do proper by the gamers who’ve invested in us thus far and wish to proceed taking part in 2XKO, in addition to the Rioters who’ve poured all the things into delivering on this dream. The remainder of this submit goes into element on how we received right here, what’s altering, and what’s nonetheless to return.”
