Redfall was one of the big exclusives that Microsoft was pushing this year. It was a game to hopefully tie players over until their next major release, Starfield. However, critics and fans alike tore it to pieces when the game launched. There wasn’t enough substance to persuade players to continue logging in. Also, more than a few bugs made the game unappealing for those considering the game purchase or download from Xbox Game Pass. However, Arkane was not giving up on this title, and most recently, we saw a new update land on the game.
This new update was something that the developers were hopeful in bringing players back into the title. It offered a wide range of fixes and tweaks to turn the game around potentially. One of the fixes that players were hopeful to see added in was a 60 FPS performance mode on Xbox consoles. Just before the update, we had seen a report that Redfall was really struggling to stay on the player’s radar. In fact, there were points when there were fewer than four active players on Steam, which made it impossible even to fill an entire party for an online multiplayer session.
With the latest patch update, it was a wonder if there would be enough players out there to swarm back into Redfall once again this past weekend. However, that doesn’t appear to be the case. It was recently reported by Tech4Gamers that there was just a small bump in players, which totaled around nineteen. That doesn’t give you too much confidence that support and interest will be sticking around for another update for Redfall. But we’ll just have to wait and see if this game sticks around much longer. After all, Bethesda’s Pete Hines said that Redfall would eventually be good.
Meanwhile, we’ve heard plenty of reports on the team making Redfall. For instance, there was a report in the past that Arkane was hopeful that Microsoft would cancel the project after being acquired. At any rate, we know that this one failed project won’t be enough to put Arkane down. It’s already been confirmed that the development studio won’t be closing down. So we’ll just have to wait and see what the next game will be from this team. Odds are, we’re likely going to see a focus back on single-player video games in the future from this team.
