Sharkmob has finished development on the free-to-play battle royale game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt. However, the game will remain active and available as long as the developers have a player base and an active community. The developers on the game’s own site have released the following statements regarding the matter:
Since launch, we have been on a journey to excite and delight our players; however, despite having an amazing and highly engaged community, we have failed to achieve the critical mass needed to sustain development
That said, Bloodhunt’s servers will remain active and the game will remain available. Our goal is to keep the servers going as long as we have an active player base and community. For those who love the game and want to keep playing, we have come up with some fixes to ensure that the game continues to be interesting.
In the meantime, we report below The full message from the development team:
Hello Bloodhunt Community!
Bloodhunt is a game that we developed as a flagship title in the popular battle royale genre, where we focused on creating an immersive and unique experience for gamers who enjoy games that are easy to pick up but hard to master.
Since launch, we have been on a journey to excite and delight our players; however, despite having an amazing and highly engaged community, we have failed to achieve the critical mass needed to sustain development. This led to our decision to discontinue development of Bloodhunt.
That said, Bloodhunt’s servers will remain active and the game will remain available. Our goal is to keep the servers going as long as we have an active player base and community. For those who love the game and want to keep playing, we have come up with some fixes to ensure that the game continues to be interesting. An in-game player voting system will be implemented to regularly unlock new stuff and keep Bloodhunt fresh. We will share more detailed details on how this system works as we get closer to the release of our next update, which will be the last expected patch for Bloodhunt. Beyond this update, patches will only affect maintenance.
We are also planning to disable the purchase of real currency on September 26th. Before that happens, we’ll implement a way to earn Game Tokens more easily, so players can continue playing and unlocking cosmetics after this date.
While we are as sad as you are that development of Bloodhunt has come to an end, please know that it was a difficult decision to make and that we will carry that experience with us in the development of future games.
We hope you have many more fun experiences in Bloodhunt and we look forward to seeing you on the streets of Prague!
