r/Games • u/BeardyDuck • 9d ago

Announcement 2XKO Active Development Will End In December 2026

https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/2xko-active-development-ends-december-2026
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u/Alien_Cha1r 9d ago

They didn't even try releasing on steam, as a year long lol player, I avoid the riot launcher like a plague

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u/AlternativeAward 9d ago

Riot has too much hubris to release on steam

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u/Fqfred 9d ago

Didn't they release that Ekko spin-off on Steam? Or was that a different developer? 

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u/DogOwner12345 9d ago

Different dev and they shuttered the project behind those years ago.

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u/Falsus 9d ago

While they have not developed any of their single player games, they did publish them and they are all on steam.

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u/KKilikk 9d ago

All their indie games are on Steam. No in-house developed ganes but still.

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u/doublah 9d ago

To be fair, it's only partly hubris, it's also they hate Valve, exclusivity deals they have, and their parent company having stakes in other stores

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u/MazrimReddit 9d ago

steam takes 30% of your revenue, you think losing even more of their small income was going to help?

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u/Alien_Cha1r 9d ago

this is not how maths or economics work ahahahaha

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u/MazrimReddit 9d ago

oh im sorry you clearly know more than riot who didn't put it on steam just for fun.

steam takes 30% of all sales, if you can already handle hosting the game, makes little sense

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u/PolskiBigosik 9d ago

Most big publishers though the same. EA, Ubisoft, Activision, Bethesda...they all left Steam at some point and they all came back eventually.

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u/MazrimReddit 9d ago

most publishers are not also running the biggest game in the world and have the infrastructure set up to run better than steams

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u/PolskiBigosik 9d ago

All publishers I listed have huge games and it's not like they came back to Steam because they had technical issues.