Red 5 Studios says it needs to ārethinkā Firefall PvP modes because its pursuit of the e-sports space just isnāt working out.
Itās not often that you hear a game studio admit that one of its products just isnāt working out, but thatās exactly whatās happening over at Red 5, the studio behind the free-to-play MMO shooter Firefall. Red 5 CEO Mark Kern said the studio has āpursued the controversial e-Sports routeā with the game but acknowledged that āitās not working very well,ā noting that JetBall, its ālast big attemptā to establish a PvP e-sports mode, attracts less than three percent of PvP players.
āAlso, PvP has suffered as our focus has had to focus on the popular PvE part of our game. People want more content, fewer bugs, and more polish on these world systems,ā he wrote on the Firefall website. āFor these reasons, we have made the tough decision to suspend PvP and take the system offline so that we can rethink it and relaunch it. PvP is an important part of our game, and we want to get it right.ā
āSo weāre going to regroup, rethink, and deliver the best PvP system we can that can be enjoyed by everyone,ā he continued. āWe donāt have a timetable for this, but at some near future point we will shut off the PvP aspect of the game, which we feel does not represent Firefall at its best, and relaunch that part of the game when its ready.ā
Source: Firefall
Published: Sep 16, 2013 9:34 PM UTC