{"id":297803,"date":"2025-03-13T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=350939"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:11:27","slug":"this-study-wanted-to-create-a-game-that-would-compete-with-counter-strike-six-months-later-it-closes-its-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-study-wanted-to-create-a-game-that-would-compete-with-counter-strike-six-months-later-it-closes-its-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"This study wanted to create a game that would compete with Counter Strike, six months later it closes its doors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The free game Spectre Divide will close its doors in 30 days, and the developers of Mountaintop Studios will be dissolved at the end of this week<\/strong>. This news comes just six months after its launch, which was met with great anticipation, especially following the debut of its first season and the PlayStation version. However, the game failed to capture the necessary interest to sustain itself in an increasingly competitive market.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A game with a great start, but that has not been able to maintain its numbers<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a letter signed by CEO Nathan Mitchell and the development team, it is noted that the poor performance since the launch of the first season is one of the main reasons for the closure. <strong>Although Spectre Divide attracted approximately 400,000 players in its first week, the number of players has drastically fallen to a peak of only 1,083 in February<\/strong>, reflecting the title&#8217;s struggle to maintain a solid user base.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mountaintop Studios had exhausted its financial resources trying to monetize the game, but it failed to secure new funding or a publisher to support the development. \u201cWe pursued every possible avenue to move forward,\u201d the letter states. <strong>\u201cUnfortunately, Season 1 did not reach the level of success we needed to sustain the game and keep Mountaintop afloat.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spectre Divide | Gameplay Reveal Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/01JX0mOjjKk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2641470\/Spectre_Divide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">The closure of Spectre Divide<\/a> highlights the challenges of the live service space, which is currently dominated by giants like Call of Duty, Fortnite, and Valorant. <strong>Despite its promising concept as a tactical FPS where each player controlled a double body, Mountaintop&#8217;s innovative vision failed to capture a broad audience<\/strong>, which serves as a reminder of the difficulty of penetrating such a saturated market.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In-game purchases will be disabled imminently, and all payments made since the launch of season 1 will be refunded<\/strong>, with more details about this process to be announced soon.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Steam\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/3047d89c-96d0-11e6-8546-00163ed833e7\/2505233623\/steam-download.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Steam<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/steam.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/steam.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The free game Spectre Divide will close its doors in 30 days, and the developers of Mountaintop Studios will be dissolved at the end of this week. This news comes just six months after its launch, which was met with great anticipation, especially following the debut of its first season and the PlayStation version. However, the game failed to capture the necessary interest to sustain itself in an increasingly competitive market. A game with a strong start, but that has not been able to maintain its numbers In a letter signed by CEO Nathan Mitchell and the development team, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9318,"featured_media":297804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[1500,1668,9321,9322,9323,9324,4450],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-297803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-call-of-duty","tag-fortnite","tag-fps-tactico","tag-mountaintop-studios","tag-nathan-mitchell","tag-spectre-divide","tag-valorant","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308937,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297803\/revisions\/308937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297803"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=297803"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=297803"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=297803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}