![]() ![]() What exactly will the additional money pay for? Will it be paying for the baseline product or development beyond that? Now you have come out and said that the additional amount needed is $3 million, above and beyond that original ~$2 million from Kickstarter and your own families. Soulbound Studios’ Jeromy Walsh: That’s all still true. You said you had pulled together another million from yourselves and your family, and you said you would be looking for additional investment elsewhere once you had enough for the baseline product. ![]() Massively OP: During the Kickstarter , you told backers that it would indeed require more than $900,000 to fund the game. That section of the update was simply intended to remind people that MMOs are expensive.” We never imaged people would be surprised by the news the game would require more money to finish. to raise the rest of the money. Ironically, we thought people would be put off by the notes on IP policy and refunds. “We’ve always said that we put up $500k of our own money, were working with friends and family who’d offered another $500k, were raising $900k off of Kickstarter, and would further work with private investors, angels, etc. “We didn’t view this update as any kind of financial announcement,” he told me. Intriguingly, studio founder and CEO Jeromy Walsh told us he was taken aback at the reaction - or more specifically, the “financial” part of the announcement that sparked the fuss. So-called “open beta” soft-launch MMOs with cash shops, no sign of launch in the west, or limited interest for our readers will not be listed, nor will games that are NFT/blockchain scams we also do not list expansions, with occasional exceptions.Yesterday evening, following the news that indie sandbox Chronicles of Elyria hoped to raise an extra $3 million in addition to its Kickstarter funding, we reached out to Soulbound Studios for clarification on that announcement. Early access and crowdfunded MMOs whose tests we deem legitimate will be included. An MMO is marked in closed testing if it’s running a private test phase that cannot freely be accessed by the general public it’s usually under NDA as well. You understand.Īs always, we consider an MMO to be in open testing if it features free, public signups and will server wipe prior to launch. As always, if something skipped test phases without us noticing, we ask you to let us know down in the comments. We… understand? There’s not much to understand there.Īh, well, let’s just skip on down to the list below wherein we keep our full list of games currently in testing. Last but not least, Shadow’s Kiss is planning a targeted closed beta and has some alpha footage for you to admire.Are you excited for a wide-scale wipe in Atlas? The developers want you to be and they’re trying to hype you up for it when it happens. ![]() Nightingale has talked up its lore a bit more to prospective players, and it promises that more information is coming in the near future.The developers are a little sad about that. Embers Adrift wanted players to break the game’s servers.“It’s coming, and everyone will validate our decision to omit part of the game, and it’ll bring food, and water, and bedding, and massive commercial success!” Her utterances are met by silence until another wolf howls. “ Wrath of the Lich King Classic is coming,” whispers Holly Longdale in an effort to raise the team’s spirits. There is only moonlight illuminating the room through a narrow, slatted window. Somewhere in the distance, you hear wolves howling. Picture this: The World of Warcraft team is crouched together in a dark room. ![]()
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