KOMPETE pulls Coin Pusher after Season 1 as Arcade mode heads for next update

kompete pulls coin pusher after season 1 as arcade mode heads for next update In Brief:

In Brief:

  • KOMPETE KOMPETE $0.001177 ▼ -8.6% (official site) reported that Coin Pusher Season 1 drew 3,068 players, who logged 17,975 sessions and 5,814 hours.
  • Coin Pusher is being switched off for now. According to the studio, the mode is “growing into the Arcade,” which lands in the game’s next update.
  • On KOMPETE’s official site, the Arcade is described as Coin Pusher, Skee-Ball and Pinball in one room with friends.

Coin Pusher Season 1 is over, and KOMPETE has removed the mode from the game. The team said a wider Arcade mode will take its place in the next update.

Season 1 stats went up on X. “3,068 of you played 17,975 sessions and spent 5,814 hours pushing coins. That’s about 242 days,” the KOMPETE account wrote.

Thank you for playing Coin Pusher Season 1.
3,068 of you played 17,975 sessions and spent 5,814 hours pushing coins. That's about 242 days.
Now Coin Pusher is growing into the Arcade. We're turning Coin Pusher off for now, and the Arcade comes out in the next update.
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The same post set out what happens next: “Now Coin Pusher is growing into the Arcade. We’re turning Coin Pusher off for now, and the Arcade comes out in the next update.”

What’s in the Arcade

KOMPETE’s website describes Arcade as a mode that puts “Coin Pusher, Skee-Ball and Pinball in one room with your friends.” The post didn’t include a release date for the update.

Coin Pusher has no published Season 2 schedule. The studio also hasn’t said if Season 1 progress or rewards will transfer to the Arcade.

Season 1 by the numbers

The 3,068 figure refers to individual players. Between them, they opened 17,975 sessions.

Playtime totaled 5,814 hours, which KOMPETE worked out as roughly 242 days of nonstop coin pushing.

The studio reported neither the length of the season nor peak concurrent player counts.

About KOMPETE

Modernize Games makes KOMPETE, which is built on Unreal Engine 5. The game is free to play on PC, iOS and Android, and it supports cross-play and cross-progression between devices.

KOMPETE isn’t built around a single genre. All of its modes live in one launcher, and players hop between them from the main menu. An earlier post from the official X account said players have the “Ability to easily switch to different game modes of different genres on the main menu.”

Blitz Royale, Kart Race and Golf are listed as playable on the site. Heatborn, Basketball, Bowling, Pool and Boxing carry a coming-soon label.

On the Epic Games Store, KOMPETE appears as an early access title released on Sept. 1, 2023. According to the studio’s site, it plans to exit early access when KOMPETE 27 launches in 2027.

The token

KOMPETE’s token is an ERC-20 on Ethereum, with a maximum total supply of 1,000,000,000 KOMPETE.

The Season 1 post didn’t mention whether the token or any rewards were tied to Coin Pusher.

The team signed off with thanks: “Thank you for playing Coin Pusher Season 1.”