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Valve stops work on Dota card game Artifact News Mar 5th, 2021

Valve stops work on Dota card game Artifact

Title wasn't attracting enough active players to make development worthwhile

Valve didn't have necessary relationship with community for Artifact's business model News Feb 12th, 2021

Valve didn't have necessary relationship with community for Artifact's business model

"We wanted to avoid manipulating people"

Players can sign up for Valve's new Artifact beta test News May 26th, 2020

Players can sign up for Valve's new Artifact beta test

"Our first two areas of focus are Usability and Bugs"

Artifact has seen its highest concurrent player figure in a year News Apr 6th, 2020

Artifact has seen its highest concurrent player figure in a year

Follows Valve announcing a closed beta for the reworked version of the game

Valve is rolling out beta for its revamped Artifact News Mar 31st, 2020

Valve is rolling out beta for its revamped Artifact

Follows game's initial weak performance

Valve's Artifact is now "under construction" News Mar 23rd, 2020

Valve's Artifact is now "under construction"

We'll find out more following Half-Life: Alyx's launch

Riot says it is trying to make card games more accessible with Legends of Runeterra News Oct 24th, 2019

Riot says it is trying to make card games more accessible with Legends of Runeterra

"We love [card] strategy games and we think more people will love them too if they're more accessible"

Valve's Auto Chess title Dota Underlords hits 121k Steam concurrent users 24 hours after launch News Jun 21st, 2019

Valve's Auto Chess title Dota Underlords hits 121k Steam concurrent users 24 hours after launch

Double the number of players Artifact attracted, but that was a premium title so it's far from a fair comparison

Ex-Artifact devs reject pay-to-win accusations News Jun 5th, 2019

Ex-Artifact devs reject pay-to-win accusations

Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias say the card game could have a bright future if the right audience is found

Artifact updates on hold as Valve goes back to the drawing board News Apr 1st, 2019

Artifact updates on hold as Valve goes back to the drawing board

“Artifact represents the largest discrepancy between our expectations and the actual outcome"

Artifact designer describes launch as "rocky" News Mar 11th, 2019

Artifact designer describes launch as "rocky"

Garfield and Elias from 3 Donkeys have contracted terminated with Valve

Unofficial Dota spin-off Auto Chess is far more popular than card game Artifact News Feb 20th, 2019

Unofficial Dota spin-off Auto Chess is far more popular than card game Artifact

Fan project has attracted over four million people since start of January

Valve's Artifact sees 81 per cent dip in concurrent players from launch News Dec 12th, 2018

Valve's Artifact sees 81 per cent dip in concurrent players from launch

11,596 users at time of writing - but don't rule out this new card game yet

Artifact hits 55k concurrent player peak for first day in the wild News Nov 29th, 2018

Artifact hits 55k concurrent player peak for first day in the wild

Users have put almost 300,000 hours into the game already

Valve attempts to course correct Artifact’s controversial payment system News Nov 20th, 2018

Valve attempts to course correct Artifact’s controversial payment system

The card game’s complex monetisation blasted as predatory by beta players

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