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2K to close Evolve, servers and currency going down in coming months

2K to close Evolve, servers and currency going down in coming months

2K confirm asymmetric monster shooter Evolve will lose dedicated servers and free to play functionality in the next few months.

In a post on 2K’s website, the publisher confirmed that the title would be scaling down over the coming months. Virtual currency will be pulled from the store on July 2nd, and on September 3rd all dedicated servers will go offline. Evolve Stage 2, the free-to-play component, will also go offline on this date, but players who purchased the game will still be able to play the game through peer-to-peer matchmaking.

2K also promises that all content purchased will remain available to players, as will the bulk of game modes. But features such as ranked play, player profiles and leaderboard data will disappear from the game.

Developer Turtle Rock announced it was no longer working on Evolve back in 2016, saying: “There’s a lot that we really wish we could have done, especially taking Stage 2 to consoles, but it looks like that’s just not meant to be. Those of you who’ve followed Turtle Rock Studios, this is not goodbye. We have lots of stuff in the works that we hope you’ll enjoy.”

Turtle Rock had previously worked with Valve to build Counter Strike maps, before the team created Left 4 Dead. Evolve was an attempt for Turtle Rock to build off Left 4 Dead as its own studio, but many fans griped at the amount of DLC swamping the game at launch. The game relaunched as a free to play under “Stage 2” in 2016, shortly before development ceased.


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