PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds Sales: A combination of momentum, popularity, winter sale discounts and popular streamers ensured that PuBG was still seeing over a million concurrent users at its peak during December 2018/January 2019 as the main rival of Ring of Elysium this act alone ensured that Ring of Elysium would never surpass its December 2018 concurrent user record and that was only the beginning of Ring of Elysium’s troubles. While the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops IV Blackout did not do immense damage to Ring of Elysium, it certainly slowed its growth launching less than once a month after Ring of Elysium, it ensured that the potential audience for a free battle royale was substantively diminished. Ring of Elysium served one purpose from its inception: to provide a free alternative to PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds by serving as a replacement for H1Z1 King of the Kill/ Z1 Battle Royale.įor a while, Ring of Elysium succeeded at both of these objectives, serving as the only free realistic Battle Royale and the second largest free battle royale in general (behind Fortnite) the future looked bright for Ring of Elysium, but unfortunately for Aurora Studio fate can be a cruel mistress and 2019 was a devastating year for Ring of Elysium, and 2020 was little better.Ĭall of Duty: Black Ops IV Blackout: While Activision’s first attempt at a Call of Duty Battle Royale did not set the world on fire, its existence as a “free” addon to the yearly Call of Duty ensured it was accessible to millions of gamers who may not have otherwise sprung for a paid battle royale. Image credit Ring of Elysium - Published by TCH Scarlet Limited and developed by Aurora Studio. On October 14th 2021, Aurora Studio announced that future development was on hold and that Ring of Elysium would enter a period of long-term operational support, otherwise known as “maintenance mode”, which is best defined as the time between the ceasing development and sunsetting servers. The wintery aesthetic of Dione was one of the only things that made Ring of Elysium unique, and its decline began in earnest when that uniqueness was lost. The most critical of these errors was replacing the popular and unique wintery-themed map “Dione” with far less well-received PuBG-inspired maps Vera and Europa despite vocal efforts by the player base to revert this change, the original snowy map “Dione” has only returned for limited-time events such as Community Map Vote, which allows the player base to choose which map will be featured for the next 3-4 weeks, For too long, Aurora Studio updated the game in a manner reminiscent of the fall of H1Z1 in an attempt to win back their former player base, they resorted to increasingly drastic measures unfortunately, each of these changes drove away more of the community, with each subsequent resulting in lower overall activity and diminished matchmaking viability.
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