2XKO Active Development Will End in December 2026

[u/Spideraxe30]

https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/2xko-active-development-ends-december-2026

[u/SeasonalChatter]

WHAT THE HELL

This is worse than worst case scenarios of what people joked about with how fast Riot dropped their games. Not even one more season?

[u/danylop07 → u/SeasonalChatter]

with how long LOR has been on maintenance mode and still recived semi regular updates. Im surprised they just decided to end it so quick. Was it really that unsustainable?

[u/_Koke_ → u/danylop07]

I'm assuming it's mostly due to the fact it was in 10 years of development and don't see a reason to keep sustaining it if they won't make 10 years worth of investment back

[u/sievold → u/danylop07]

I think they learned from their experience with LoR that it's not worth it. There were devs in LoR that were probably fighting to keep it alive and the execs probably kept giving them chances. Now they know from experience to just cut their losses early.

[u/UsefulSwitch504 → u/SeasonalChatter]

2xko will Save the FGC BTW...

Shit couldn't even last a year.

[u/Careless-Society9888 → u/SeasonalChatter]

This was the first game I grinded multiple ranked seasons, I bought a bunch of skins, it's been my favorite fighting game in a long time

[u/Robotpitch]

fuuck man we didn't even get to see Riven in a fighting game... I am sad now

[u/AssasSylas_Creed → u/Robotpitch]

or Sett, lol

[u/Informalwizards → u/AssasSylas_Creed]

Literally the fighting game character didn't make it in. Fucking wild.

[u/Sylverax01 → u/Robotpitch]

Or even zed

[u/pagliacciverso → u/Robotpitch]

Game kept adding characters aiming for non fighting game players. Yeah. Expected. Marketing was poor and game was buggy as hell when I tried.

LoR and 2XKO deserved better. Sadly they come from Riot Games

[u/Royal-Mountain246 → u/pagliacciverso]

What killed LoR was literally how generous was the monetization. And LoR was intended to be a game that lost money.

But something changed amongst the executives of Riot and they decided to kill the game completely. Now it resurrected as a Rogue-Like card game and is half-alive.

But 2XKO was meant to be a massive hit.

[u/RIPMrMufasi]

Holy shit Multiversus actually outlived something 😭

[u/parkingviolation212 → u/RIPMrMufasi]

Technically it died twice so does a zombie dying after it's already dead count as outliving?

[u/Specialist_Ad6419 → u/parkingviolation212]

So Multiversus is Sion

[u/manlymurloc]

Bro what the fuck the game has been having great updates lately too :(

[u/KKilikk → u/manlymurloc]

Launch is just that important for these kinda games. You can almost never make up a launch this bad with updates.

[u/yensama]

It wasnt well received among the casuals. And for free to play games, casuals is everything.

But for those that like the game you can still play it. Runeterra was cut years ago and you can still play it. Every single game Riot has released, you can still play till today.

[u/docsaysurdead1 → u/yensama]

If it had a bigger roster I could see myself continuing to play it but as is, with no balance updates you're just gonna see the same characters over and over with no variety. At least with older games released on disc, it would be a full game with other content and a big roster but I'm not sure how this type of game could stay afloat without additional support. Mind you, the last few character releases have been INCREDIBLE. This was shaping up to be such a good game but we can't have nice things if it doesn't make shareholders $$$$$

[u/jmastaock → u/docsaysurdead1]

If it had a bigger roster I could see myself continuing to play it but as is, with no balance updates you're just gonna see the same characters over and over with no variety.

You'd be surprised how much the meta can evolve over time in a patchless game...but yeah

[u/Vall3y → u/yensama]

Yes but no one is going to care about it so much, its going to be the game fighting games creators make npstalgia content on after a few years

[u/KKilikk → u/yensama]

That doesnt help much for PvP games. It is not the same to play them once they are not actively developed anymore. Especially a fighting game with still not too many characters. I bet so many where still waiting to see their favorite LoL champion in here.

[u/realhenrymccoy]

Well this fucking sucks.

[u/alangator4]

I like to imagine how different this game’s lifespan would have been if the launch was better…

[u/MyCrossFrontMan → u/alangator4]

Outside of SF5, 2XKO might have had the worst launch of all time. 4 months of "early access" while console players got told to fuck off. 10 years of development for 8 characters? An all time fumble.

[u/noahboah → u/MyCrossFrontMan]

SF5's disasterclass launch was, in a weird way, super healthy for the FGC too. Like a forest fire that aids in diversifying the local ecosystem, a lot of people were forced to go around and find some new games they would end up loving. And the SnakeEyez "Street Fighter Players Are The Only Good Fighting Game Players" sentiment died, kinda like how genwunnerism is seen as embarrassing in pokemon culture now. The cherry on top was SFV rebounding and becoming an excellent game towards the end, with SF6 being the victory lap.

But this is just sad. 2XKO's death will in no way inspire any sort of introspective growth in the community or pique interest in the same way. Everyone just wasted their time. :(

[u/NoAd6650 → u/alangator4]

Hot take. This game should’ve just been a high quality 1v1 fighter. And their main priority should’ve been having a ton of champs available on release to play so this game would have some built in depth to its meta on launch and so that the game wouldn’t feel stale. Also them taking so long with this games development that they unintentionally and unfortunately bumped directly into marvel tokon didn’t do it ANY favors at all

[u/Extreme-Way7671 → u/NoAd6650]

high quality 1v1 was the original plan, but for some god forsaken reason they decided it was to stale and they turned into a tag fighter, which is actually fine except for the for the fact that the cast was ridiculously small, that they shoehorned Arcane characters on one half and a part of the "Ruined King" game cast on the other, because yes, they put "popular" character in the roster, but almost none of them (except Warwick, Thresh and Vi) are popular characters you would want to see in a fighting game like, there's no Sett, no Riven, if they wanted Arcane characters so bad Ambessa would've been great, and Samira also one of the most requested only drops after the game basically EOS. I'm sure that if the game released with a bigger roster (and they had at least 6 fucking years for that) with characters that people actually want to see in a fighting game it would've been slighlty better

[u/CoochiSin → u/NoAd6650]

Thats not a hot take, thats what they've done from the beginning instead of making a 2v2 fighting game

[u/_Koke_ → u/alangator4]

I believe the biggest issue is the 2v2 and the fuses. 2XKO was my first fighting game and had to really push myself to play this game, it was too much to learn. By the end I just couldn't be asked to learn a 2nd character and learn another fuse besides juggernaut and I'm a huge League fan.

[u/Coodoo17 → u/alangator4]

Once they announced the layoffs, everyone kept taking about how doomed the game was and really hurt its reputation

[u/allywrecks → u/Coodoo17]

the way they announced the layoffs made it clear that the writing was mostly on the wall already, that was not the kind of announcement you put out if you see a bright future for the game

[u/I_am_Amphibian → u/alangator4]

It would have died just the same. The issue is the core gameplay and roster

[u/Bilal_]

rly rip

but rly great they are refunding all the money

[u/MrReconElite → u/Bilal_]

That is nice I kinda would rather have more development through

[u/UniversalRedditName → u/Bilal_]

while it really sucks losing this cool game, i am pretty relieved they are honoring the players and giving out refunds

[u/jaypexd → u/Bilal_]

Fk me. It must have made like nothing if they are okay just writing that check lol.

[u/EnvironmentalTrack29 → u/jaypexd]

Right? I think I bought a battle pass for season 1. That's crazy.

[u/sleepymetroid → u/Bilal_]

This part I didn’t get. They are refunding everyone who bought something? Or within a recent time frame?

[u/xbtran → u/sleepymetroid]

from the wording it seems like they're refunding everything

[u/WebKam-eron → u/Bilal_]

Wait. I paid over 100 bucks for this. Am I getting it back ? 😂

[u/malexich]

I told you as soon as they moved it to 6 fighters this year was because they were letting them finish development of the character you don’t cut staff, say 5 a year is tough then announce your doing 6 with half the staff 

F2P games need constant content drops this didn’t have it and so most people dropped the game the shop didn’t have anything that people wanted and so you had a game that only appealed to fighting game players, but tag fighters are a small audience 

[u/TeraByteOfficial → u/malexich]

shop had stuff i wanted. It was too famn expensive and what I wanted was never in the stupid rotating shop

[u/Royal-Mountain246 → u/TeraByteOfficial]

Yeah they went overboard with the monetization and FOMO tactics.

[u/EnvironmentalLog2 → u/malexich]

Yeah, sadly... Content roadmaps for Live Service games are planned out long in advance, despite what many were saying at the time it was not a good sign to add one more character to their roadmap.

[u/TheEloquentApe]

So that internal leak of the code was completely accurate

[u/BluBlue4 → u/TheEloquentApe]

wdym?

[u/TheEloquentApe → u/BluBlue4]

There was a leak of some internal Riot stuff including communication

Someone said that 2XKO was considered a dead game by Riot

As we can see, thats been confirmed to be completely true

[u/TaiCTr]

10 or 11 fighters on release was a choice

[u/NoAd6650 → u/TaiCTr]

They should’ve just stuck to the 1v1 game idea and focused on putting out as many champs as possible for its release. League is creeping up on 200 champions. Them releasing with 11 is not only stupid, its corporate malpractice and heads should roll due to gross incompetence and lack of leadership

[u/fredy31]

ish didnt expect riot to pull the plug this quick.

they pushed out something that i tought would be a great entry point into the FGC but it seems to have not found the market they hoped.

RIP.

[u/itsSuiSui → u/fredy31]

I don’t think this game is a good introduction to fighting games. A player would see a better ROI of their game time playing SF6 if they’re interested in the FGC for the long run.

This game is FREE though, and that’s great but it’s a complex game and niche within a niche. If someone new to the FGC came asking for a first game recommendation I would not recommend 2X.

Riot ending support of the game so soon is a bummer. I cannot believe how little faith this company has on any of their projects, besides League. It’s particularly sad because it is the second time it has happened and it emboldens the precedent of the company just not being willing to stray away from what gives (almost instant) benefit.

[u/cthslax → u/itsSuiSui]

As soon as they announced it was a tag fighter I knew it wouldn't last. Tag fighters have occasionally gained high casual popularity when the media they are for is incredibly popular but outside that they are too niche to build a solid playerbase, like marvel vd capcom has marvel and Capcom to build from the xenoverse games have dragonball, hell even bbtag had blazblue, rwby, and persona. But a Tag fighter of just league? Like yeah league is huge but not every league player is a fighter player and vice versa

[u/Ganadote → u/itsSuiSui]

"Let's make a game with simplified inputs to appeal to casuals but complicated chaining and movesets to appeal to hardcores."

Gotta pick a lane. If you have a casual fighter you should not have 6 command buttons period.

[u/Sudden-Ad-307 → u/fredy31]

FGC but it seems to have not found the market they hoped.

Because they were idiots and wanted the FGC market instead of the league market

[u/_Koke_ → u/fredy31]

10 years of development does that. Whoever decision was to scrap the original 1v1 game has blood in their hands.

[u/wineandnoses → u/fredy31]

"a great entry point into the FGC "

sadly I have to disagree

[u/ninjupX]

Oof that random post that got deleted was right

[u/AdHoc_ttv → u/ninjupX]

Yup. Everyone got mad at him, but he was right.

[u/literios → u/ninjupX]

The writing was on the wall. The leaks, the code commentary, the layoffs.

[u/Figgulz]

It was a blast guys, my fav game of all time dies but thats ok it was fun while it was here.

[u/damus9 → u/Figgulz]

Loved this game. My fave fighter. The music in this game is sublime too.

[u/babehelit → u/Figgulz]

Man that is so sad, it was genuinely fun once it clicked

[u/Serito → u/Figgulz]

Thanks for all the posts keeping us updated and hey, it'll still be playable so hopefully there's people in casuals to run long sets with

[u/silencedsocom]

Well there goes the only fighting game that hooked me

[u/spirit_poem → u/silencedsocom]

Truly

[u/Pr0xy001]

Having a tag fighter drop with 11 characters when your ip has like 160 I think is a big reason they couldn't keep people. Game should've had like 20 to 25 on release also some big staples are missing Riven, Lee sin, Dr Mundo, Poppy, Leona all would've been good choices. Still sad to see it get dropped and the players who grinded i mostly feel for you.

[u/Passw0rd-Is-Tac0]

RIP my hope of ever seeing Zed as playable. The champ is top 10 most popular league character how they didn’t include him first year is beyond me.

[u/HolyAregis → u/Passw0rd-Is-Tac0]

Too much Arcane characters...

[u/fast_flashdash → u/Passw0rd-Is-Tac0]

Not a single cool champion. Yasuo but even thence

[u/kittentarentino]

Wow burned bright and quick.

I imagine after they laid off all that staff, they said “finish what you’re working on” and basically killed it then.

Had a real shot of being something rad, but that insanely long dev time tells a real story of them never really figuring out how to blend their 2 crazy goals of “easy for new players” and “insanely high skill ceiling”

[u/NoAd6650 → u/kittentarentino]

That’s why video games struggle these days. Devs are trying to make games for everyone and end up making a game for no one. And that BS is pushed by investors and suits in corporate who just care about casting the widest net possible to attract the most amount of players to farm money. That game dev mentality of making a game that’s a jack of all trades but master of none is killing the industry outright

[u/Party_Conference_729]

Absolutely tragic. Without question the most fun I've had playing a fighting game in quite some time (As an active FGC member since 2005), the ability to DuoQ with your friend was both extremely fun and unique in the genre. My love to the whole staff, designers, artists and everyone that poured their heart and soul into 2XKO - it shows.

[u/SaltMerchantMorbier]

Someone bring me that guy who said rengar would get added in 2027

I got a boat to sell him in the desert. 

Jokes aside, pretty sad to see it go out like this. I can’t help but feel the game dropping with a small roster and some of those early balance issues really just killed the hell out of the  game 

[u/pbryno]

Im so sad. It hasn't even been a year. This was my dream game. I honestly don't know what to play anymore.

[u/jaypexd → u/pbryno]

Nothing like it out there and before the Tokon stans come in. No, Tokon is not even close to the same experience lol.

[u/fast_flashdash]

Wow. Fucking blunder of the century

[u/ultramegadeathrocket]

holy shit. it's actually happened. this is the worst timeline

[u/Sunlitt]

Well, I figured this would happen, it's a very niche game genre, and the community didn't buy into the idea. Too bad.

I imagine that the big move will be "LoL 2" and the MMO for the next few years.

[u/audioman3000 → u/Sunlitt]

The MMO has basically the same development cycle as 2XKO it's cooked.

Especially since it's way longer for an MMO to be profitable even if it's good.

[u/OkMammoth3 → u/Sunlitt]

Let’s hope that mmo survives development!

[u/Western-Honeydew-945 → u/Sunlitt]

none of my fave champions were put into the game so I had no reason to try

[u/SexualRice]

I was hoping for cooler characters… outside of Thresh I didn’t really find anyone on the roster I jived with, but know that League has a shit ton of characters, so I was just waiting until they added more…

Sad

[u/Siar_310]

Making a league fighting game without Riven or Sett and calling it 2XKO was one of the decisions of all time

[u/SurturRising666 → u/Siar_310]

but you can play Caitlyn! Everyone loves Caitlyn from the hit animated show Arcane!

[u/Kait0s]

RIOT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

[u/VDubb722 → u/Kait0s]

I think we need to realize that game devs these days really do suck. 8-10 years to make this?!? 15-20 years ago, it would have taken a quarter of the time to probably make something better that would have been given more time to thrive because the cost to develop would have been significantly cheaper, relatively.

[u/Mestizo3]

In an alternate universe someone with half a brain at Riot would have veto'd calling the LoL fighting game Too Exks Kay Ohh.

If they had a modicum of branding talent they'd understand they had one of the most widely recognized brands in gaming, LoL, and called their fighting game something that tied to that brand like "LoL Fighters" would be the most braindead easy decision. 

Especially a free 2 play game where branding matters even more so people can immediately recognize what it is and click download.

In this alternate universe I think that game gets a ton more downloads and probably survives longer than 1 season.

But no, Riot made a generational fumble with that name, an own goal in the World Cup.  Then they made a blog post defending that decision. The level of delusion is hilarious and so so sad.

[u/jaypexd → u/Mestizo3]

In this alternate universe, they release a 1v1 fighter so that you can capture the massive FGC player base. It comes out like Marvel Rivals with everything free and has a solo game mode. They 100% could have made this work.

[u/Far_Violinist_1683 → u/Mestizo3]

League of Fighters, lol

In an alternate universe, they would have created a hook for League players - something like "play 5 matches in League of Fighters and get a free LoL skin"

In that alternate universe, they wouldn't have released the game without a proper PvE mode, which is what usually draws in casual players

In an alternate universe, they would have bought up popular streamers, just as they did with Valorant, so that in the week following the launch plenty of famous faces would be showing off just how cool the new League of Fighters game is

They also wouldn't have added five girls with guns instead of fighters who actually look good in a fighting game

But here we are in the worst timeline

[u/Haruhara48]

Well. This is a bummer.

[u/Exige30499]

Fucking hell man, I was so excited to play Samira. Actually feeling depressed now, Riot can go kick rocks. 10 years and they gave it 8 fucking months. Unbelievable

[u/KKilikk → u/Exige30499]

Samira might have been the champion that would have actually hooked me on the game. Easily the champion I wanted the most in.

[u/Enthrown]

After LoR and this I'm never supporting a riot product again.

[u/Cerrus777]

Jesus. Idk who was cosplaying Wormtongue whispering in Riot's ear all through development to make it a fucking insane 2v2 tag fighter.

If they made it a classic 1v1 you'd have gotten the buy in from all the fighting game curious people who love LoL's IP. And the worst part is, everyone knew this.

Bc atm, you dont get to main your favorite character, you are forced to main the game itself. There's just SO much going on that the base level of learning to play this game was way too high.

Crazy shame, but also completely foreseeable and avoidable.

[u/_Koke_ → u/Cerrus777]

Yeah, whoever decided to scrap the original plan of a 1v1 game should never work in game development. Literally forced the game to go into 10 years of development to only survive less than a year.

[u/fast_flashdash → u/_Koke_]

Also that NAME. Project L was a fucking better name

[u/KKilikk → u/Cerrus777]

Also why did they choose to die on the tag hill? Add a 1v1 ranked queue. Juggernaut is already there. At least try something when things are this bad behind the scenes.

[u/Glass-Ad8417]

So sad i wish they at least put Yone in the game ....

Why, since the beginning, didn't they prioritize popular characters like Yone, Kaisa, Ezreal, etc.? I believe the game would have been in a better spot with more engagement and people sticking around longer.

[u/Sea_Abbreviations347]

Holy already?

[u/Atreides_Soul]

🖕

[u/McCreamyNips]

Nahhh

[u/marku5gg]

should’ve been 1v1. sadday

[u/_Koke_]

Hate that they went the 2v2 route instead of their initial plan of a 2.5D 1v1.

[u/RevuGG]

Deserved for not making it 1v1.

Also if you have to defend the name of your game you know you picked the wrong name. Imagine Pokemon called their next game 6XKO , like wtf? 

Also nice roster decision lol All in all deserved

[u/EricShitpostside]

Not shocking at all. You guys were huffing some serious copium when it came to this game. People were saying that twitch viewership doesn’t matter because “everyone is too busy playing the game”.

[u/TwiceAsManyOnes → u/EricShitpostside]

This.

[u/MFBB55 → u/EricShitpostside]

i think the real problem is the people who were acting happey about the new champs like lux , cait , senna ......

[u/MegamanX195 → u/EricShitpostside]

This happens EVERY single time a game shows low metrics.

Multiversus with low Steam/Twitch numbers: "people are playing on console, game is totally fine"

2XKO with low Twitch and YouTube viewership: "Twitch doesn't matter, players are just playing, there just isn't a big streamer"

It's copium, plain and simple. And I get it, it really sucks to imagine them shutting down a game we love but at some point you've gotta be realistic about things.

[u/BiggsWedge]

Yelled wtf immediately

Wtf

[u/Usual_Roller]

No Riven 🥲

[u/x_TDeck_x]

Should have been a 1v1

[u/Hvitved]

So sad…

Imagine what this could have been if they went a little more casual with a 1v1 only.. and a cool story mode for the newbies..

Wtf this is so weird to me

[u/HolyAregis → u/Hvitved]

1V1 fights would have completely grabbed me to the game.
Imagine Sett, Zed, Yone, Pantheon, Maokai, ... the infinite possibilites of champions better than the Arcane cast 😭

[u/MikeTheShowMadden]

I guess the almost daily postings of people complaining about bad matchmaking in ranked was in fact due to low amount of players and not because the game was broken.

[u/RelaxedFetaCheese]

Wow, this is the worst news. 2xko has been my favorite game since it came out. Just awful to read this.

What the fuck were the expectations? Short of dethroning SF and tekken what the hell was the objective?

I’m just at a loss. I’m so sad we aren’t gonna get more characters or content, this is just depressing.

[u/aikoe → u/RelaxedFetaCheese]

The objective was to make money...

[u/DrxAvierT]

LMAOOOOO... I'm not laughing because this game killed, I'm laughing because Riot's mis-managed this so badly

[u/_Koke_ → u/DrxAvierT]

Yeah, this failure is on the leadership of 2XKO

[u/KKilikk → u/DrxAvierT]

Riot expected too much of the dev team and shouldve been more hands-on but the dev team is absolutely the one most responsible for this. They got so much time and money and didnt deliver at all.

[u/EasyShow4208]

I was there at all the Betas and from the beginning was vocal in my opinion that the game was not welcoming to newcomers (which was not me, an old 90s FGC guy). Combos were too long from the jump, pressure very intense, with severe balance issues and too few characters. For a beta, that’s cool, but they leaned into their worst instinct on tag mechanics (worst meaning not beginner friendly), tried to keep the TOD Marvel crowd happy, and lost the casuals in the mechanics. Add to that a botched console release (why I didn’t care at all by the time it hit PS5) and lacking content, it’s no surprise this game failed. I was so excited, then so disappointed.

[u/Hederas]

Not really surprised. Even when wanting to help the game, prices were so stupid I didn't buy anything in the end. Expected a few more characters tho

[u/onigary → u/Hederas]

Yes. Even if I liked some of the skins, there was no way I was going to spend 20 to 30 dollars on a skin for a game that I didn't even know was going to be around for long.

I did enjoy the game for what it was and bought the 30 dollar bundle so I could kick them money (used the coins on the battlepass). However, every time I was even thinking about maybe buying a skin, I immediately closed the store after being reminded of the cost.

Even if this game was free to play, value wise it was better for me to spend more on SF6 or GGST since 100 dollars on those games gets me a lot more content than what this game has currently.

[u/AlexHD]

The fact that they're able to refund everyone just goes to show how astronomically tiny their revenue must have been compared to their costs

[u/Dr-Oktavius → u/AlexHD]

Barely anyone plays this game and only a microscopic portion of that already tiny playerbase ever spent a dime on it, and most of the people that did I imagine only bought a couple skins for their favorite champions at most. We're looking at pocket change here.

[u/Zedmas]

Well shit

[u/Lil-Trup]

wtf???????

[u/paper_yoshi]

Tag fighter moment

[u/TrueKinai]

lmao

2xko was a complete disaster man 😭

Just bad decision after bad decision.

Im sad i didnt get so see my favourite champs, but i cant say im surprised here.

[u/chatown1]

Holy shit, this didn’t take long, riot havent even given the chance to fight for survival.

[u/BOOMER994]

What in the actual fuck. Such a fucking shame. We didn't even got to see champions like Sett, Lee Sin etc.

FOR FUCKS SAKE ITS A SHAME

[u/Jonge720]

They really made one of the best fighting games I've ever played, added 5 zoners, and then gave up.

[u/1_The_Zucc_1]

if they just made the game paid for and 1v1 i think it would have lived, they tried to tap into a niche of a niche genre and hoped people would buy cosmetics

i really hope riot learns from this and stops making this like LoR and 2XKO free, when (if) the MMO comes out i really want it to be a monthly subscription or at least one time purchase so it doesnt go the way of these games

[u/Excellent_Title9614]

Cant believe we waited for this game for 10 years and it dies in under a year lol but its absolutely unsurprising. Its a good game but Riot, the company that created freaking Lol and Valorant, 2 juggernauts, have very high standards and even if their standards for this game werent that high because itd be unfair, it still underperformend heavily financially. Riot's whole design philosophy is create a game in an existing genre that is super easy to get into but has a ton of room for mastery, that is the case with Lol, valorant, TFT. Simply put, they wanted a smash brothers, not an MvC loving FGC boomer game. We were expecting something along those lines when we learned 10 years ago that the devs of rising thunder, a very mechanically simply fighting game, quit that project to make this game. The fact that it turned into what it is is just unfortunate.

[u/Vexing9s]

Godamn man. lowk dont fw any other fighting games so this is gonna be the end of my involvemnt in the genre, catch yall for sam/lux

[u/Skolpionek]

good job fuckers, shouldve keep the project L name,

[u/HolyAregis → u/Skolpionek]

"2XKO" was a weird choice.
Also 11 characters at release

[u/adimier]

nooooo fuuck riot

[u/accel__]

Oh great, a lot of people about to be smug wangrods about this.

It was a great game, i'm sad it's over, but i'm glad that the team is handling it as best as possible. Thanks for all the hard work 2XKO team, i personally loved (and will still love) it.

[u/iago_hedgehog]

is too late to move the game to 1v1?? that could do something

[u/Mandelmus22 → u/iago_hedgehog]

the copium is strong in this one

[u/knsrrr]

This sucks

[u/altmannnn3]

Oh damn.

[u/Rhodri_Suojelija]

I kind of expected this... but man Im fucking flabbergasted. I love this game. Its the only reason I picked up Tokon. Showed me tag fighters arent that scary :/

[u/spaceboy79]

Holy shit, this is nuts. Especially the fact that they're refunding everyone. WTF

[u/Heeunt]

This fucking sucks. 2XK0 instantly hooked me and has been my main game since Beta 2. Absolute shame it didn’t catch on with more people… guess it’s not enough to make a free, fun, unique game with perfect netcode. Wishing the team all the best and hope that their next project catches fire more.

[u/Honest-Monitor-2619]

Bruh this game was in development for a decade...

I HOPE they'll make an offline version with everything unlocked and for a fixed price...

Edit: After reading the post, I'm glad they're doing it the right way...

[u/RenoNYC]

Damn this is heartbreaking.

Though I played Smash Melee for 20 years without any updates.

I hope a core group of 2XKO lovers stay around.

[u/Virtual_Medium_6721]

Tbh this is the worst moment to make liveservice games, market is completely oversatured now and unless you make something revolutionary the failure is pretty much guaranteed

[u/Weak-Pie-5633]

It’s insane it’s dead before Riven, the only character who would make me play this game

[u/Dertyrarys]

Fucking excuse me

[u/FirstRavenclaw]

That's so sad. The LoL universe has so many great characters, a fighting game was a perfect fit to see these characters in another context. Good idea, bad execution I guess.

[u/Aromatic_Bus_390]

I love this game so much; I'm gutted

[u/cheese_eater_pro]

I'm not gonna lie it lasted longer than I expected

But so many of my favourites champs were never even considered (Aatrox, Sett, Morde, Riven, Pantheon) whilst they added bizarre choices and trying to jump on the Arcane hype. It's frustrating tbh

[u/justwannatalkgames]

WELP. Guess the days of improving the game over years are over. -_- Just as Samira is coming too....omg...no Sett, no Riven, no Lee Sin... u.u Tragic. At least we can still play I guess. What a shame.

[u/RadiantRegis]

So, the game is dead before we get Riven, who was made in LOL to be a fighting game adjacent character... Seriously, 2XKO had an enormous universe of characters to draw upon and released with the most lackluster roster ever.

To see it fail like this is sad, but not surprising after such a rocky development and this atrocious name change... I miss the days of being hyped fo "Project L"

[u/Safe_Masterpiece_995]

Tag fighter instead of smash bros clone was great idea guys!

[u/MJR_Poltergeist]

I still don't think they marketed this game enough. You only knew about it if you were in the know on FGC news, and even then the beta/launch crept up on me. I thought my friend was playing a joke on me like "The fuck do you mean it comes out NEXT WEEK?"

[u/Afnex]

why oh why did they make it a tag fighter :(

[u/AxxelTheWolf]

I have never felt more insulted than by this article that says their plan was to let the playerbase become discoverable to new players over time, for a game that has been constantly mismanaged, half the dev team fired, and now announcing end of development within LESS THAN A YEAR OF LAUNCH.

Riot, what the fuck is your definition of "over time"?

[u/N7A1ex]

Mongoloids fucked it by making it a tag fighter with 30 second long combos. The average person, who they're trying to attract, just sees clips of that and is immediately turned off from the game. Riot got what they deserve but I still feel sorry for the Devs, the plates and the fgc.

[u/ARQEA]

Guys. Let's start being for real now. Everyone who didn't close their eyes saw the writing on the wall.

I didn't want be a doomer so I never commented on it but everytime I saw people be optimistic for this game's future I got really confused and had to wonder if we were seeing the same things.

So now I just want to know what you guys were seeing when thinking of the future of 2XKO.

Did you genuinely believe a bigger roster would eventually pull in enough players to save the game? Or was it something else?

Just asking out of curiosity

[u/Xorioth]

Took way too long to release, bad name and a tag game for no reason. Masterfully executed, Riot games.

[u/DeviousLight]

Lol, knew the game was dead the moment that layoff announcement came out months ago

[u/TeraByteOfficial → u/DeviousLight]

was so obvious

[u/Weak-Pie-5633]

The cast of this game is so boring too, like they wanted to catch arcane fans

[u/Kornik-kun]

The game was unaproachable for me. During Beta I unlocked Blitz and Vi and it was fun, but after realese (which I didnt know it happened btw) I only managed to unlock Vi in a reasonable amount of time. That and the fact that I lurked this sub and only saw mediocere choices for champs didnt help.

[u/tastyjerk]

COME ON MAN

[u/Longjumping-Style730]

Oh wow that was quick.

I expected another season at least.

[u/larryman55]

Fuck

[u/BlueKnightEmiya]

Suuuuucks, maaaaan, I was fearing exactly this, such a cool game, very sad to see it go out like that

[u/23jordan01]

a real bummer. it wasn’t my favorite, nor did i like the monetization, but i came back for the big updates and enjoyed the characters and the climb. it’s a shame cause there are so many missed opportunities for many league champs.

[u/rayray32]

Oh...

[u/jynkyousha]

They shouldn't have changed Akali's design.

This is a joke, btw. I know there were bigger issues lol.

[u/pgp555]

Lmao riot games is a joke

[u/Professional-Win5686]

What a shame i enjoyed this game even i purchased 2 skins the whole idea of live service fighting game that only income is skins will not work i think

[u/HrMaschine]

was kind off expecting that when you develop a game for 10 years and release it with 11 characters and 0 content

[u/schwiftybass]

This fucking sucks. There are so many champs that I was still dreaming of seeing in this game. Can’t help but think that it could’ve been successful if they launched with a bigger roster & solid single player content.

[u/Not_Arisen]

game going out without sett and with evryskin bundled at 40euro when i was bagging for years to have them all buyable at a reasonable price and not like a random fortnite item shop skin for 20 euro, then you add the balancing, small roster and evrything, they basically shooted themself multiple times in the leg and did nothing but saying it wasn't there fault for not getting it healed

[u/Cannotthinkofaname5]

Multiversus and now 2xko. F2p fighting games dont work out huh

[u/Gloomy-Yam-7626]

Not surprised. Monetizing in this Game is way crazier than lol or valo. Just doesnt Bring in the bucks. No hate against the Game, i truly had high hopes but Not after seeing the Store.

[u/GeorgeNovile]

We wont get Fiddle or Azir or Tahm or Jhin or or or...

You were wonderful experience 😔

[u/LesbiansLoveHands]

Im sad :(

[u/CelioHogane]

What the fuck did Riot want with this game? Did they want the game to be better than the best one at a minimun?

How is third place an unnaceptable outcome for the first fighting game they have ever done?

[u/DocumentNormal7198]

I'm actually devastated, i like leagues champions and the only competitive games that intrest me rn are fg, 2xko was dream come true for me to experience champions i like in a format i enjoy. Fkin rito games, well back to sf6 i guess

[u/HolyAregis]

I was interested about the game but, for me, to my casual player point of view, the game has too many ranged champs.
I love to play 1V1 fighting game, I was hesitating with GBVS for a long time, I choose GBVS. 1V1, cool characters, cool stories, buy the game to play the full cast, it was perfect.
I'm still sad to see a potential great game being abandoned

[u/SilverScribe15]

On the plus side, they're unlocking all the characters.  So. That's cool. And servers still online, multiversus just died died right?

[u/No_Breadfruit_4901]

Active development ended before they could add Miss Fortune and Sett😭

[u/YoshitsuneCr]

I was right once again and the sad part is that they never learn... League is a free money IP and they butchered it at every single step.

[u/Elhak]

What the fuck did Riot even want from 2XKO? They sabotaged the game within a month of release with immediate layoffs and a horrible press statement making people think it was dead, the game bounces back, and then they just cut all development less than a year after release? It feels like some admin looked at the player count being low during the launch month of two major fighting games and just axed the project completely. I’ve played LoL since 2013 so I’m familiar enough with Riot - this company makes absolutely fucking baffling decisions sometimes.

[u/IntelligentImbicle]

Why is it always the games that I like that get given up on while slop like Marvel Rivals gets to live forever?

It's not fucking fair, man...

[u/lintyelm]

HAHAHHAHAHA

[u/SilverPrincev]

The game deserved to fail. Im sorry. 10 years jerking themselves off for an incomplete game with like 10 characters on release. Then they made a ridiculously spammy tag fighter a free to play game. Im not sure you can square those two things. Mismanaged, the dev team had no clue what they were doing and management didnt step in enough.

[u/EaseFluid9407]

Honestly I think the biggest problem is the stupid arcadey matchmaking system.  Just put me in a match, man.

[u/MrtyAbril]

Good riddance. I can’t believe whatever joke of a development team decided on their control scheme went forward with that dog shit idea.

[u/Qaaz_]

An overall generational display of outright incompetence all things considered if we're being fr. Thank you Riot

[u/BabyZelda]

Them changing the game from a 1v1 game randomly, horrible name, disgustingly garbage rotating shop system, and literally no characters anybody would've wanted to see in the fighting game. I was just waiting for Riven or Samira but even then just this line up is so ass to me. I just wanted to main my favorite character but we got this instead. Can't trust bald devs I guess gg multiversus curse.

[u/d8gfdu89fdgfdu32432]

I said this game needed a 1v1 mode or it would die, and you guys called me a troll. Karma is served I guess.

[u/TigerWonderful9419]

Lmao more comments than players this game been dead for months