Nexon is ending help for its third-person looter shooter The First Descendant on PS4 and Xbox One.
The free-to-play sci-fi-flavoured launch got here out final yr throughout Xbox, PlayStation and PC. It received off to a good sufficient begin, and within the first week welcomed 10 million gamers into the fray. Issues have petered off since then, with SteamDB knowledge displaying a median of 8,227 gamers on Valve’s platform in February. Its peak participant common was 123,352 in July final yr, however this dropped to a median of 54,662 by August.
Nexon goes to maintain supporting The First Descendant, nevertheless it has now introduced will probably be ending help for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One gamers from nineteenth June, which is simply shy of its first anniversary. The sport will even be delisted from the platforms (thanks, TheGamer).
In line with Nexon, it has determined to cease supporting the final era of consoles in a bid to maintain “rising participant satisfaction”. The developer mentioned it had “elevated the dimensions” of The First Descendant, and this meant the group was dealing with difficulties “sustaining the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One builds”.
Those that are enjoying The First Descendant on both a PS4 or Xbox One will nonetheless be capable to switch their progress to different platforms by way of The First Descendant’s cross-save performance.
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On its launch final yr, Nexon discovered itself having to reply to claims the iconography of The First Descendant was strikingly just like icons present in one other sci-fi launch, after gamers recognized a shocking variety of similarities between the icons and weapons used within the free-to-play sci-fi shooter and Future 2.
The designs in questions have been subsequently faraway from the sport “with deep affection and respect” for different “looter shooters”.
