Despite its more nervous gameplay than the pioneers of the genre, Hyper Scape did not convince during its two years of life. Ubisoft’s free-to-play servers will be shut down in April.
Hyper Scape, you know? No? You are not alone. the Battle Royale from Ubisoft, which borrowed quite a bit from Apex Legends too, has hardly ever been talked about since its launch and after several seasons, however regularly updated, has not experienced a breakthrough in terms of the number of players.
So, in the face of failure, the publisher has simply announced that it will stop its free-to-play on April 28. It must also be said that with the group’s current strategy of profoundly modifying all its licenses and offering three or four games a year, competition is fierce even internally. Hyper Scape could have overshadowed a another future futuristic free-to-play, XDefiant.
We wanted to create a shooter experience that offered intense and fast-paced close combat with verticality, and we thank the community for following us in this adventure. We will use everything we learned about this game in our future projects..
As a reminder, last year, Ubisoft announced that it would put a large envelope of its creation on free games (a fifth of production). Currently, the projects announced (XDefiant or The Division: Heartland for example) have not necessarily been well received by the community. Will they have better luck in the future?
Source: www.ubisoft.com
