Comment by @stani • Hey

Artifact had all the right ingredients and still flopped 🤔

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The game was monetised to hell and back and launched unfinished with only the core gameplay intact. You had to buy every card, as none could be won by winning a match. There was no progression system/campaign and after players lost interest they rebooted it as Artifact 2.0, a free to play game with no monetisation, but it was still the same unfinsihed game and it still had no progression system or rewards and people quickly lost interest again. TL;DR: valve released an unfinished game with an insane monetisation system.