7/30/2023 0 Comments Improbable scavengers![]() ![]() While it is a saturated game genre to try and make a mark in, my heart goes out to the devs who poured their time into the project and were moved to new teams.ĭid any Aliens here play Scavengers? Let's give this game a proper farewell, and I hope that the core devs of the project will get to put their hard work into something that'll last. This will not be the first nor last time that a game gets shelved after having its core dev team divided up among other projects. Improbable has announced that it's shutting down its free-to-play multiplayer game Scavengers on December 16, simply because not enough people are playing the game. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, Improbable employs more than 900 staff in Europe, China and North America. ![]() For reference on the communication between Improbable and the player base, the last Scavengers update was posted nearly 6 months prior, with radio silence in between. It seems certain that any developers left working on the project will likely be moved to work on bigger IPs or Metaverse development. The first game from Improbable Game Studios, Midwinter Entertainment’s Scavengers is available in Early Access on Steam and the Epic Games Store. The first game from Improbable Game Studios, Midwinter Entertainment’s Scavengers is available in Early Access on Steam and the Epic Games Store. The game never released a full version, having shut down while still in Early Access. Scavengers, the first title from our in-house studios is a new type of shooter in which players battle for survival in an ice storm-ravaged world. The game was originally developed by Midwinter Entertainment which was bought by Improbable in September 2019. Improbable also makes innovative multiplayer titles using its own technology, with studios in Canada, the US and Britain. The development studio behind Scavengers, Midwinter Entertainment, was sold in May 2022 to Behaviour Interactive (Dead by Daylight), disrupting game development (and leading to cancellations of the game launching on console) as the team pivoted to work on Metaverse development. Improbable released a statement on the Scavengers website announcing the closure, citing declining player counts as a primary reason for shutting down. The game launched in Early Access on PC in May 2021 and was initially announced back in 2018 with multiple beta rounds. Battle-tested alongside Scavengers, Improbable Multiplayer Services (IMS) is an ever-evolving ecosystem of tools and services dedicated to optimising how games. In 2017, Improbable receives 502m Series B funding, led by SoftBank, with follow-on investments from Horizons Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Right on the heels of Crowfall entering an indefinite hiatus, Scavengers publisher Improbable has announced that the game will shut down service as of December 16th. In 2015, Improbable receives a 20m Series A investment from Andreessen Horowitz other Series A investors include Horizons Ventures and Temasek. ![]()
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