No longer available in the steam store?

[Huntsman S. Thompson]

Is this game completely gone now? I cant access a steam store page for it now...

[Unbenannte]

Well yeah, you are not able to buy it anymore, so it has no store page ;(

[Unbenannte]

BUT! xdd you can still buy it here: http://www.desura.com/games/shattered-horizon

They give you a steam key =P, your wellcome.

[Huntsman S. Thompson]

I own it, but had no idea that it was no longer for sale either.
When did they pull it from the store?

[Unbenannte]

long time ago, not sure when.

[Huntsman S. Thompson]

No threads on it, thats pretty unique, you almost never see a game taken off store shelves like this. Unfortunately they listened to a group of about 20 beta testers who steered this game into COD in space and it failed massively. Of course, it also took them 1-2 years to make it optimized and playable for people above 30fps and that didn't help its situation. Way ahead of its time by reintroducing zero gravity space fps...

[Unbenannte]

yeah, but it is amazing, some people still play tho =P

[Thaeos]

I still yearn for my memories of how it was when it just had the one weapon. This game was so good.

[Huntsman S. Thompson]

Yeah, it could have been a competitive game with the 1 gun format, but FUTUREMARK decided to take on 20 (uninformed) testers and listen to their responses more than common sense. The biggest problem was at the time of SH's release, COD was becoming a massive powerhouse with COD4 and COD5&6, so of course the beta testers, who were all COD players, decided that SH would be better with COD guns in space.

As a player, my biggest complaint at release (and still after one year) was the coding and optimization.
Although denied forever, finally Futuremark figured out that when you looked at certain places in the maps your FPS would go from playable to 1-3fps. It took them nearly 2 years to figure it out, which was sad for a company that claims to CONSISTENTLY test and benchmark gaming parts and PCs.

At the very least, Shattered Horizon should be looked at as a gaming case study.
Futuremark relased the game far from finished, and instead of fixing and polishing the actual structure and code, they decided to start over and send it into alpha with new weapons due to 20 (uninformed) voices picked randomly from overzealous players of the game.

[Huntsman S. Thompson]

If you want to retrace the history of Shattered Horizon, just click Announcements and keep scrolling down. You can see when the game was released and every patch announcement released since, including beta recruitment (it was originally 500 players, not 20, although if I recall, only about 20 were active in the beta).

You can see when they botched the game, 2010, and released the FIREPOWER pack, from there you can see free weekend after free weekend until there is nothing left.

[Hydro [SIRRIS]]

Originally posted by Thaeos:

I still yearn for my memories of how it was when it just had the one weapon. This game was so good.

I really loved the one-weapon system. Ensured perfect balance and it was a nice gun to master.
Game was the best FPS I ever played.

[The Spacedog]

how about making it free to play?

[RageMojo]

Originally posted by sharelukseadog:

how about making it free to play?:summerskull:

They pulled it because they dont want to support it. Makling it free would be the exact opposite of what they need.