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Stormgate still has potential, says CEO, but recovery is "extremely difficult"
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After a difficult early access launch, Stormgate CEO Tim Morten breaks down exactly what went wrong, and what he would do differently.
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Stormgate made a lot of promises when it launched into early access around this time last year, and it didn't deliver on many of them. A group of ex-Blizzard devs teaming up for a self-published, StarCraft-style RTS sounded too good to be true. Unfortunately, it was. The initial game was "undercooked" (Frost Giant Studios' CEO Tim Morten's own words), and received terrible feedback. Things didn't improve much with the full launch last month. Morten has since taken to LinkedIn to explain what went wrong, what he'd do differently, and why Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man's Sky are "unicorns" among games.
Read the full story on PCGamesN: Stormgate still has potential, says CEO, but recovery is "extremely difficult"
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Stormgate made a lot of promises when it launched into early access around this time last year, and it didn't deliver on many of them. A group of ex-Blizzard devs teaming up for a self-published, StarCraft-style RTS sounded too good to be true. Unfortunately, it was. The initial game was "undercooked" (Frost Giant Studios' CEO Tim Morten's own words), and received terrible feedback. Things didn't improve much with the full launch last month. Morten has since taken to LinkedIn to explain what went wrong, what he'd do differently, and why Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man's Sky are "unicorns" among games. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Stormgate still has potential, says CEO, but recovery is "extremely difficult"
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23 September 2025, 7:00 pm
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Ben Sledge
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title: Stormgate still has potential, says CEO, but recovery is "extremely difficult"
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After a difficult early access launch, Stormgate CEO Tim Morten breaks down exactly what went wrong, and what he would do differently.
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Stormgate made a lot of promises when it launched into early access around this time last year, and it didn't deliver on many of them. A group of ex-Blizzard devs teaming up for a self-published, StarCraft-style RTS sounded too good to be true. Unfortunately, it was. The initial game was "undercooked" (Frost Giant Studios' CEO Tim Morten's own words), and received terrible feedback. Things didn't improve much with the full launch last month. Morten has since taken to LinkedIn to explain what went wrong, what he'd do differently, and why Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man's Sky are "unicorns" among games.
Read the full story on PCGamesN: Stormgate still has potential, says CEO, but recovery is "extremely difficult"
content_text: Stormgate made a lot of promises when it launched into early access around this time last year, and it didn't deliver on many of them. A group of ex-Blizzard devs teaming up for a self-published, StarCraft-style RTS sounded too good to be true. Unfortunately, it was. The initial game was "undercooked" (Frost Giant Studios' CEO Tim Morten's own words), and received terrible feedback. Things didn't improve much with the full launch last month. Morten has since taken to LinkedIn to explain what went wrong, what he'd do differently, and why Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man's Sky are "unicorns" among games. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Stormgate still has potential, says CEO, but recovery is "extremely difficult"
pub_date: 23 September 2025, 7:00 pm
guid: https://www.pcgamesn.com/stormgate/potential-recovery
creator: Ben Sledge
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