why did it fail?

[Leravi The Hyena:33]

to be serious I want to know

its a damn ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shame to see a great fun game with so much promise die so soon...and is there any chance we will see this game come back at some point or another?

[Solo-Ion]

I can't say for sure, but it was probably due to a number of reasons. I think that the biggest were the minimal PvE options plus the high hardware requirements.

[mekstrongduarebueksdi]

mostly causes high hardware req

[kingfish_ak]

There are too many competitors too, look at paragon! It failed because of fortnite. It is a shame that games like this go to die while C.of D. can make copies at naseum and have servers full of gamers, but, this is a fail. Even if this game is a failure it was a succes at being awesome. R.I.P. Gigantic, Paragon, Battleborn, you all deserved better, and Actavision took it away with Overwatch.

[Leravi The Hyena:33]

Originally posted by kingfish_ak:

There are too many competitors too, look at paragon! It failed because of fortnite. It is a shame that games like this go to die while C.of D. can make copies at naseum and have servers full of gamers, but, this is a fail. Even if this game is a failure it was a succes at being awesome. R.I.P. Gigantic, Paragon, Battleborn, you all deserved better, and Actavision took it away with Overwatch.

do you think it will ever return in some other way or form?

[kingfish_ak]

Originally posted by conor.r.foley:

Originally posted by kingfish_ak:

There are too many competitors too, look at paragon! It failed because of fortnite. It is a shame that games like this go to die while C.of D. can make copies at naseum and have servers full of gamers, but, this is a fail. Even if this game is a failure it was a succes at being awesome. R.I.P. Gigantic, Paragon, Battleborn, you all deserved better, and Actavision took it away with Overwatch.

do you think it will ever return in some other way or form?

Nope, I think that it was a niche game. And that is OK, unfortunately Niche games can't compete with the crowd pleasing titles like Overwatch.

I hope the developers do not loose heart over this. This game is a triumph of creativity, art and ingenuity. While it has it's similarities with other games it managed to stay original and inspiring.

Games that require constand tweaking and server maintanance need money to stay in opperation, games like Path of exile, survive on selling cosmetics and more important to their survival item spaces. When a game like Gigantic comes out it is important for the game to have revenue, and unfortunately Gigantic did not have a survivable sustainable market. A market in a free game is esential for their to be revenue, and that can be a pay to win, or pay to enhance and it must be well thought out before the game is ever released or the game will not be able to survive because it cannot pay it's developers, and eventualy servers must be shut down.

There is a lot of history to show that games that require post release development fail significantly more often than succeed. Some games use monthly subscriptions, like MMO's, but, lacking content and consumers can't justify paying for the subs and the game tanks because the plan to make money didn't work *(helgate london) (age of Conan) These games both were revived later on in different ways and are somewhat succesful.

[Leravi The Hyena:33]

Originally posted by kingfish_ak:

Originally posted by conor.r.foley:

do you think it will ever return in some other way or form?

Nope, I think that it was a niche game. And that is OK, unfortunately Niche games can't compete with the crowd pleasing titles like Overwatch.

I hope the developers do not loose heart over this. This game is a triumph of creativity, art and ingenuity. While it has it's similarities with other games it managed to stay original and inspiring.

Games that require constand tweaking and server maintanance need money to stay in opperation, games like Path of exile, survive on selling cosmetics and more important to their survival item spaces. When a game like Gigantic comes out it is important for the game to have revenue, and unfortunately Gigantic did not have a survivable sustainable market. A market in a free game is esential for their to be revenue, and that can be a pay to win, or pay to enhance and it must be well thought out before the game is ever released or the game will not be able to survive because it cannot pay it's developers, and eventualy servers must be shut down.

There is a lot of history to show that games that require post release development fail significantly more often than succeed. Some games use monthly subscriptions, like MMO's, but, lacking content and consumers can't justify paying for the subs and the game tanks because the plan to make money didn't work *(helgate london) (age of Conan) These games both were revived later on in different ways and are somewhat succesful.

okay

[Maple Syrup]

Originally posted by conor.r.foley:

to be serious I want to know

its a damn ♥♥♥♥ing shame to see a great fun game with so much promise die so soon...and is there any chance we will see this game come back at some point or another?

2 graphics cards 2 fps

[Oilerised Grandma]

Copying MOBA trend

[Key]

It for sure didn't help that the game got released way to late on steam. The whole windows store thing was such a dumb idea, that the result is kinda deserved.

[kingfish_ak]

Originally posted by Key:

It for sure didn't help that the game got released way to late on steam. The whole windows store thing was such a dumb idea, that the result is kinda deserved.

they keep trying to reinvent it..

[Niff Sniff]

just played the game me now and all it is TUTORIALS get the game modes open and then its just bot mach its pants and its dead

[Aurum]

If you take a look at Visionary Games, they're a community company that sprung up to re-capture some of what made Paragon special, and they're building a lot of hype - especially on their Reddit page. Hopefully the community can come together for Gigantic. I'm sure there's plenty of talent here, and UE4 is free to use.

[brunto]

games dying so quick I think has alot of do with the mentality people got nowdays aswell, they judge the game so fast and dont enjoy it, even if its free.

Back in the console era of NES,SNES and PS when you bought a game, you still played through it even tho it was ♥♥♥♥ because you spent 60 dollars on the game.

[𝐏𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞]

the game died because it was not making enough money and mojorty of the community was toxic to each other and these people were yelling at other people who wanted gig to lower the requirements and this went on and any toxic player would get pissed off just because of some dumb joke ( i mean really i made some dumb joke and someone took it for real) and also PW just swept gigantic under the carpet even though PW did not make any adertisment for the game and theres many more of why gigantic got shut down i mean this game will fill up a top 10 (or 20 maby) that shut down because it had so many reasons why it shut down

[Ajel]

Coz game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ suked? Had no depth, was casual and boring? Also the UI is horrible and sometimes it's hard to understand what even happens on the screen.
There's no such thing as overloaded market with MOBAs, actually ppl suffer not having a decent one, but it hasn't been out yet. It's a fact.