Riot Games ends active development on fighting game 2XKO

I FUCKING KNEW THIS WAS GONNA HAPPEN, NEVER TRUST RIOT GAMES www.riotgames.com/en/news/2xko...

When Riot Games says "Nah, you keep the money" you just know things are dire

It is wild that over the past decade we had Riot and top FGC personalities gassing up 2XKO like never before. Fighting game pros were actually saying with their whole chest "This will change Fighting games forever" 2XKO shows up, nine months later "Damn, making a successful fighting game got hands"

Well you probably heard the news, so lets talk about it. Riot Games is ending all Development on 2XKO, and that sucks. youtu.be/L0IB8GNVkFs

2xko: stopping active development Marvel Tokon: cracked version runs better than DRM ridden pc edition Avatar: hired Mike Z and liked good will with the tuned in players Invincible VS: laid off 75% of their staff despite hitting 1 million player milestone #fgc #fightinggames

Biggest thing on my mind writing this was how Creative Director Mike Henry gushed to me about the game's future at EVO. About how making weird models made future weird models easier. We watched an amazing EVO Top 8. The passion was there. The problem is Riot Games wasn't there for the passion.

Riot Games has announced it will end development of its fighting game 2XKO at the end of this year due to poor uptake. vgc.news/news/riot-fi...

With only love in my heart, I'm shocked to discover one whole year later + the recent news of 2XKO ceasing development, Kirby Air Riders still has more playable characters than 2XKO

Learning that 2xKO is shutting down active development has genuinely made me so upset. Its not surprising, which fucking sucks honestly, but also knowing they were making an incredibly good-feeling game only to just drop it feels so bad. I'm not even sure *why* they're dropping it

2xko dying? Oh no Who would’ve foreseen that a tag fighter marketed to angry manchildren riot game fans with zero patience and self introspection would fail removing motion inputs makes fighting game concepts like crossups, oki etc easier to understand right?!

I'm of two minds with the 2xko situation. On one hand it fucking sucks to see people lose their jobs and watch a 10 year project unceremoniously, yet not unexpectedly shut down because of unrealistic expectations. But to the "Riot will save the FGC crowd" Where's your god now?

Call me armchair if you want but with how long 2XKO spent in development and the volume of high quality assets that were produced, if upper leadership at Riot couldn't turn it into a profitable product they're just incompetent. They had time to turn it around and all they did was fire people

Riot killing 2XKO like this is genuinely so confusing to me. The game had legs, people like Pat made it their main game. Sajam had all these slams it’s crazy that they couldn’t have at least given it 2 years to build momentum after launch.

it was "fuck Riot games" not long ago then 2XKO had y'all in a headlock now it's "oh no" again like clockwork plz stop falling for it, ppl for your own sake the companies are done, the industry as we knew it is over it's time to shift support indie/fangame/romhack/mods and never look back

arcane did amazing work convincing people riot games is a good studio that supports their IPs