Future 2’s participant depend has fallen to a historic low on Steam.
Based on Steam Charts (through Forbes), over the past 30 days the sport’s common participant depend was 34,328 and its peak participant depend was 59,076.
Each figures are all-time lows for the reason that PC model of Future 2 transferred to Steam in October 2019.
Whereas it may not be sudden for a recreation’s participant depend to be declining in its seventh yr in the marketplace—Future 2 was initially launched in September 2017—Bungie’s shooter truly hit its highest ever concurrent participant depend (316,651) when its Lightfall growth launched in February.
It was confirmed final month that Bungie was the newest Sony Interactive Leisure studio to be hit with layoffs.
Bloomberg later claimed roughly 8% of the studio’s workforce was affected by the job cuts and that the upcoming Future growth, The Last Form, in addition to shooter Marathon, had been internally delayed.
In October, Bungie’s workers have been reportedly warned that income was working at round 45% beneath projections for the yr, which chief government officer Pete Parsons attributed to poor participant retention for Future 2.
It’s claimed that workers have been informed the sport’s subsequent growth, The Last Form, was being delayed from February 2024 to June, to provide the studio extra time to enhance it.
Bungie hasn’t formally introduced a delay for The Last Form, which remains to be formally scheduled for launch on February 27, 2024.
The studio just lately introduced plans to exchange the sport’s present seasonal construction with an episodic one following The Last Form’s launch.
