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Valve has decided to terminate the development of Artifact 2.0, a rebooted version of its troubled and critically panned Dota 2 card game. The company announced the disappointing news on Steam today, admitting that the decision had everything to do with the Artifact franchise’s poor reception and inability to attract new players despite a genuine effort to reinvent the game. Artifact and Artifact 2.0, which have been renamed to Artifact Classic and Artifact Foundry, respectively, are now free to play as a result.
“It’s now been about a year and a half since the current Artifact team began work on a reboot in earnest,” Valve wrote. “While we’re reasonably satisfied we accomplished most of our game-side goals, we haven’t...
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