Splitgate isn’t even out yet, and already it’s surpassing everyone’s expectations. The game – which is sold as Portal via Halo – is the free-to-play first-person shooter that seemingly came from nowhere to take the gaming world by storm. In the month of July alone, the game attracted over an incredible two million downloads. Splitgate, it seems, is going to be big.
The game was initially set for a release date in July, but it became so popular that its servers were hammered on the days leading up to its exit from Early Access, and the developers had to push the release date back. This surge in popularity came from developer 1047 Games gearing up to enable cross-play on July 13, after a huge surge in popualrity, the studio quickly figured out Splitgate’s servers are only capable of handling 65,536 players at any one time.
Since the game’s initial launch into Early Access in May 2019, then, that’s a big jump all at once. Carry on reading to learn everything you need to know about Splitgate.
Splitgate release date
Developer 1047 Games has delayed the official 1.0 launch of Splitgate delayed due to the number of players overwhelming the server capacity. Over August, the game attracted upwards of 10 million downloads across its various platforms, and 1047 now wants to improve server capacity ahead of formally releasing the game.
The studio was previously planning to launch the game in August, but has now delayed that full 1.0 release, although you can play the Beta right now. The game, for the foreseeable, will remain in open beta so the developer can work on “scalability of the game’s backend.” Developer 1047 CEO Ian Proulx has noted that his team is “focused on keeping the game stable for fans, and iterating on the game’s current capacity in order to minimize player wait times.”
