This title could not possibly be any more misleading.

[...] developer 1047 Games has said it’s taking the game off sale in order to work on it further, listen to fan complaints, and attempt to move forward.

Just putting "unlaunching" in the title mosleads people into thinking it is going offline forever like Concord. I can imagine that is probably the article authors intention with a title like that, but that is simply not true.

Hey, publishers? Stop demanding multiplayer-only shooters. They're either the biggest thing in months or stone dead. It's a stupid gamble you will reliably lose.

And the one cocksure nose-candy addict who does back the biggest thing in months still won't make Fortnite kinds of money.

CEO came on stage wearing a "Make FPS great again" hat.

Double downs on it.

Now this.

I actually really liked splitgate 1 and was stoked for splitgate 2 but the anticheat wasn't Linux compatible so I never played it.

This comes just after the whole "Make fps great again" issue happened. Not a good time to be on that team

Wow, I've seen plenty of games launch unfinished but 'unlaunching' is a new one for me.

They failed with the first game after it spiked in popularity. They were only ever releasing a number 2 in an attempt to cash in on another spike, but it didnt work out did it.

Relaunching never seems to work out. Just look at Multiversus and Bloodhunt.

This is actually a very sincere statement from the company. Kind of refreshing.