The free-to-play 3v3 shooter, Spectre Divide, is set to shut down just six months after its debut in September 2024. This announcement comes shortly after the game's release on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and it also marks the closure of its developer, Mountaintop Studios. Moutaintop CEO Nate Mitchell confirmed the disappointing news in a statement shared across social media platforms.
“Unfortunately, the Season 1 launch hasn’t achieved the level of success we needed to sustain the game and keep Mountaintop afloat,” Mitchell explained in the post. The team had high hopes following an initial strong performance, with the game drawing around 400,000 players and a peak concurrent count of approximately 10,000 across all platforms within the first week. However, as time progressed, the game struggled to maintain a sufficient player base and revenue to cover operational costs.
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Despite the initial optimism, Mitchell revealed, “But as time has gone on, we haven’t seen enough active players and incoming revenue to cover the day-to-day costs of Spectre and the studio. Since the PC launch, we stretched our remaining capital as far as we could, but at this point, we’re out of funding to support the game.”
In a bid to keep the game alive, Mountaintop explored various options, including seeking a publisher, additional investment, and potential acquisition. “We pursued every avenue to keep going, including finding a publisher, additional investment, and/or an acquisition. In the end, we weren’t able to make it work. The industry is in a tough spot right now,” Mitchell added.
Spectre Divide will be taken offline within the next 30 days, and any money spent by players since the Season 1 launch will be refunded. This closure contradicts earlier statements from October 2024, where Mitchell assured that “the servers aren’t shutting down, and the updates aren’t going to stop,” claiming that Mountaintop had “the funds to support Spectre for a long time.”
IGN’s positive preview of Spectre Divide in August 2024 praised the tactical 3v3 shooter for its innovative Duality system, which allowed players to control two characters during matches. However, the rapid shutdown of Spectre Divide joins a series of recent live-service game failures, including Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Sony’s Concord.
