{"id":4356,"date":"2021-02-06T07:25:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T07:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obilesky.com\/2021\/02\/06\/valves-artifact-is-being-rebooted-dubbed-artifact-2\/"},"modified":"2021-02-06T07:25:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T07:25:41","slug":"valves-artifact-is-being-rebooted-dubbed-artifact-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/?p=4356","title":{"rendered":"Valve&#8217;s Artifact is being rebooted, dubbed &#8216;Artifact 2&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic.obilesky.com\/game\/2315\/bdzydv5nevc.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p> System Requirements <\/p>\n<p>Low vs Ultra Screenshots<\/p>\n<p>GPU Performance Chart<\/p>\n<p>CPU List That Meet System Requirements<\/p>\n<p>GPU List That Meet System Requirements<\/p>\n<p>Comments <\/p>\n<p>Artifact <\/p>\n<p>PC Demand<\/p>\n<p>#100+ <\/p>\n<p>Rate this game<\/p>\n<p>User Rating<br \/>\n1<\/strong> user review score. Average score out of 10, based on 2 review scores&#8221; style=&#8221;background: #dd2222&#8243;&gt;<br \/>\n1 <\/p>\n<p>Ok<\/p>\n<p>Not Ok<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"ors-thumb-up-35338\" class=\"thumb-btn-35338 thumbUpClean    js--tooltip-item\" data-thumb-val=\"1\" title=\"I think Artifact is well optimised\" data-gid=\"35338\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<p><button id=\"ors-thumb-down-35338\" class=\"thumb-btn-35338 thumbDownClean    js--tooltip-item\" data-thumb-val=\"-1\" title=\"I think Artifact is not well optimised\" data-gid=\"35338\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<p>Optimisation<br \/>\n7.8<\/strong> optimisation score. Average rating, based on 9 user ratings&#8221; style=&#8221;background: #4db53c&#8221;&gt;<br \/>\n7.8 <\/p>\n<p>Remember Artifact? No? Well it was Valve\u2019s take on the card-gaming genre like Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering. If you didn\u2019t know about it, or didn\u2019t even remember it existed until now, then that just goes to show what a complete and utter disaster it was when it launched. Going from 60,000 players at launch, to 10K a week later and then finally down to 345 at the time of <em>this<\/em> article from last year, it\u2019s safe to say that Artifact didn\u2019t do very well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Artifact was an interesting failure in its first go-round,<\/em>&#8221; Gabe Newell, founder and CEO of Valve, tells the press. \u201c<em>We were surprised. We thought that it was a really strong product.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Valve has notoriously never really had a flop quite like Artifact, but the studio is determined to work on a larger reboot. So much so that it is internally being dubbed as \u201cArtifact 2\u201d. But Newell states that this reboot has to be large enough in order to \u201c<em>justify its existence to customers and to markets<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>We ran an experiment, we got a negative result, and now we need to see if we\u2019ve learned anything from that, so let\u2019s try again,<\/em>\u201d he continues. \u201c<em>Based on the reaction to it, what was wrong with the product? How did we get there? Let\u2019s fix those things and take another run at it.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><ins class=\"adsbygoogle scrolling-ad-item\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0052787453283862\" data-ad-slot=\"2741061911\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Recently Newell stated that Artifact was a great inspiration for them, and more helpful as a studio for what to improve. When you have a successful game it\u2019s hard to know what didn\u2019t work and improve on it, but a flop like Artifact provides tonnes of lessons as to what to improve on. Will we see Valve\u2019s comeback comparable to No Mans Sky? Time will tell, but it seems like they are at least working hard on it, so it will be interesting to see what changes\/improvements they make.<\/p>\n<p>An event listed on Artifact\u2019s Steam page as &#8220;Under Construction&#8221; currently only says the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"blog-expandable-img\" src=\"http:\/\/pic.obilesky.com\/game\/2315\/pfryfxi5qyq.jpg\" title=\"Valve Artifact Game Under Construction Event\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>First off, we wanted to say thanks for all of your tweets, emails and posts. The continued interest in Artifact has been encouraging, and we sincerely appreciate all of the feedback!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>You might notice some changes soon \u2013 we are starting tests on our systems and infrastructure. This shouldn\u2019t impact live Artifact but we wanted to give you a heads up.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Expect more news after the launch of Half-Life: Alyx!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So looks like we\u2019ll be hearing more news in the coming week after Half-Life: Alyx at least! But what do you think of the news so far? Are you interested in what Valve is changing\/improving? Did you play Artifact? What did you think? Will you be playing the new version? 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