A complete lack of interest from almost everyone and after a month of open release, Crucible moved back into a closed beta and is being taken out of release. On May 20, Crucible was released. According to a post from the Crucible team before it’s closed to new players, players will have until noon ET on Wednesday to download the game from Steam.
Interested players will be able to sign up through their official site in the near future says the post. The development team will attempt to improve Crucible in the many ways it has already outlined while the game is closed. The developers at Relentless Studios are also putting together a small council of players. And they are hoping it hopes can help shape the future of the game to make it more appealing for everyone. The development team also plans to have regularly scheduled playtimes each week. So the developers can directly interact with the closed-beta players. The game has just under 150 players online. The game hit its peak of 10,000 players just a few days after its release. It has been on a steady decline ever since, making it very visible and a catastrophic failure for Amazon Game Studios. Steam’s public player statistics make it easy to see why Relentless Studios may have made the decision to move the game to closed beta. It’s extremely rare that a game gets closed completely while it’s reworked. With little to no updates even as developers try to retool them into a better 2.0 version, while games often go dark. There is still hope for success for Crucible, even if the scale of this move is unprecedented.
Tomorrow July 1, at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm BST, the initial beta opt-in period will end. Before then if you download Crucible, you’ll be able to start it up and play like normal. If you get the game after that point, you’ll need to sign up through the game’s website as you would a standard, pre-release closed beta.
