In the wake of its wildly successful early access console launch, Splitgate will now remain in open beta "for the foreseeable future."
As we wrote a couple of weeks back at the dawn of the Splitgate explosion, this Halo-meets-Portal multiplayer FPS has become too popular for its own good. Though wait times have dropped dramatically, there was a point where players were enduring through 90-minute queues to play.
"We never dreamed of having to scale this big this quickly, and as a result we have had to overcome challenges to keep up with player demand," said 1047 co-founder and CEO Ian Proulx. "We met several major milestones in a short time, creating a stable platform where fans can expect to find a server to play on relatively quickly, and I'm proud of what our team has accomplished - but there's a lot more to come!"
1047 says Splitgate went from hosting 4,000 concurrent players to more than 175,000 in a matter of weeks. A jump like that requires fortifying the backend framework and rolling out smaller updates and bug fixes on a regular schedule, so it's understandable that the studio needs a little longer to prep the game's full release.
