After a catastrophic launch on July 10 and an overwhelming amount of negative reviews, the servers for The Culling 2 are going offline again. However, developer Xaviant Games is not giving up. The team already has plans for how to proceed.
The Culling 2 was already dead at launch: It was definitely not a good week for developer Xaviant Games. The many negative responses, refunds, and player numbers in the single digits practically killed their newly released battle royale game “The Culling 2” on release day. And it only got worse from there.
Late Realization
Game going offline: The team announces that The Culling 2 will be taken offline and removed from online stores. The team has come to the realization that The Culling 2 was not the game that the community had hoped for from the studio.
They also apologize for the fact that the relationship between Xaviant and its community has been at such a poor level until now.
Money back? According to a Twitter video, negotiations are currently ongoing with Valve, Sony, and Microsoft to refund purchasers of The Culling 2.
You can view the full message here in English:
We owe you an explanation and an update as to what the future holds for our studio, and @TheCullingGame https://t.co/mEOYzDd669
— Xaviant (@Xaviant) July 18, 2018
The Culling Reboot
The Culling 1 is coming back: In the Twitter video, Game Director Josh van Veld also announced that the studio wants to return to its roots and pick up work on the first Culling game again. Just at the end of 2017, the team announced they would cease support for “The Culling 1” and develop a successor.
The Culling 1 will be reset to the state of the “Day-One Patch,” which would bring back many perks and the popular “Rock-Paper-Scissors” principle of melee combat into the game.
The new, old “The Culling 1” will be Free-to-Play
Xaviant intends to use this foundation to continue developing the game in collaboration with the community and bring it to a state that satisfies both the developer and the players.
In order to reach a larger audience, The Culling will also be Free-to-Play.
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