Splitgate 2's Opening Weekend: When $80 Bundles Get Downgraded to $40 After Community Feeds Back
CERES — It happened in the span of 47 hours, faster than most game patches can roll out: 1047 Games watched its Splitgate 2 pricing strategy get deleted from existence by a community that collectively screamed “antithetical to our wallet’s structural integrity” loud enough for the studio’s CEO to hear it through a wall of microtransaction rage.
According to an internal memo that was never leaked (because the studio said it would delete it “for your safety”), the $80 cosmetic bundle that launched on June 6, 2025, was originally priced at $145 before the backlash hit with the force of a ranked matchmaking queue during finals week. When players began comparing their $500 monthly food budget to this single bundle, the studio responded by executing what they’re calling a “community-first dynamic discount algorithm.”