Artifact is dead. We can say Valve’s card game has completely failed.
Valve itself admits this. However, Valve has not given up on Artifact yet, this game looks like it will change a lot of things.
“From here on, we will focus on fixing major issues instead of updating the game. We think this testing and development process will take a lot of time, the team is ready to take on this challenge and update you as soon as possible,” Valve wrote.
After learning Artifact won’t improve anytime soon, player count continues to drop, and the game can’t reach 400 now. Tournament organizers are leaving Artifact, as are esports teams. But nothing has been as disastrous as the Artifact viewership on Twitch.
Artifact has never been a popular game on Twitch, due to it being difficult to track and overly complex. During its launch month, Artifact averaged 8,300 viewers on Twitch. By January 2019, it had lost 86% of that number and by February 97.6%. By March, only a few people were still streaming Artifact.
Artifact statistics for the first week of April were extremely dismal. Only three channels stream on average and never exceed 10. However, this meager number continues to decrease. On April 8, no one streamed Artifact.
— Henrik Ahnberg (@AdmiralBulldog) April 8, 2019
The situation of 0 streams will probably continue in the future. The streamers of this game now have just over a dozen viewers on a good day and they certainly know that Artifact will not have any new updates in the near future, possibly next year or so.
Whether Valve can turn the tide or not is currently a big question mark – but one thing is for sure, if they want their Dota 2 card game to have a future, its idea will certainly be very different from Artifact currently. a lot of.
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