This week in MMO crowdfunding news, City State Entertainment posted a happy update for Camelot Unchained: Not only has the studio fixed the chat server problems it alluded to last week, but it’s been hard at work populating the test server with “just about 2000” unique bots and player testers to stress the game… and the server won. “I was flying above the a crowd of about 2K Bots and not only didn’t the game crash, but it performed well,” CSE’s Mark Jacobs said of the game’s big bot testing. Jacobs also sat down for part two of our interview for The Game Archaeologist column, so don’t miss that either!
Meanwhile, Hero’s Song’s early access got a new patch, Dogma: Eternal Night announced a playable build for December, Shroud of the Avatar pushed out release 36, Crowfall opened itself to unaccredited investors on a new crowdfunding platform,and an Elite: Dangerous player went on a two-day mission to rescue another player — which he did successfully.
Finally, Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts celebrated the fourth anniversary of the game’s record-shattering Kickstarter by telling players that his studio will soon be making itself even more transparent by sharing internal timelines. In other words, you can stop making cheap jokes about playing Star Citizen in 2050.
Read on for more on what’s up with MMO crowdfunding this week and the roundup of all the crowdfunded MMOs we’ve got our eye on!
Camelot Unchained art
Star Citizen’s massive stream and demo
Recent MMO crowdfunding news
The Game Archaeologist: Mark Jacobs on Mythic’s early online games, part 2 - We're back with our second part of an interview retrospective of Mythic Entertainment's early online games with CSE's Mark Jacobs. Last week, we talked about the formation of Mythic, its…
Dogma: Eternal Night playable builds are coming in December - Thanks to some additional crowdfunding, Dogma: Eternal Night will be able to start rolling out playable builds starting at the end of December. These builds won't constitute a proper alpha…
Star Citizen plans to share internal timelines, justifies ship sales as not P2W - Star Citizen's latest newsletter does three things: celebrates the fourth anniversary of the game's Kickstarter, explains why you still don't know when the game is going to launch, and announces…
Dual Universe puts out a first draft of its lore bible - Technically, one could argue that you don't need lore to make an MMORPG work; it just helps players have an idea of who they're shooting and why. Dual Universe is…
Shroud of the Avatar tackles combat and crafting in today’s 36th update - Shroud of the Avatar's Release 36 lands today, a little bit early because of next week's major holiday, Black Friday, which is preceded by something called Thanksgiving. The monthly update…
Go. Hunt. Kill Rooks: City of Titans unveils its latest enemy group - Anyone who has played the game that inspired City of Titans knows that they will play with a very straightforward objective: Go. Hunt. Kill... um... wait, what gangs are we…
Chronicles of Elyria overhauls its influence point system (again) - Chronicles of Elyria's most recent Kickstarter update is a bit of a screenshot dump, not that we're complaining. In addition to images of a pair of highly detailed characters models,…
Crowfall’s training montage demos the playable pre-alpha classes - Crowfall's latest video is a montage -- the best kind of montage, a training montage! It shows training cycles for the eight classes currently available for testing by pre-alpha backers:…
The Exiled attempts to support six languages - Localization is very important to the Germany-based team behind The Exiled, and as such, work has begun on expanding the game to six languages. In addition to English, The Exiled has…
Crowfall studio joins Indiegogo’s equity crowdfunding platform - Crowdfunding activists and haters should point their eyeballs at Indiegogo today, as the crowdfunding platform has just announced that it's launching a new equity crowdfunding service that might remind you…
AdventureQuest 3D plans major November content update - Now that AdventureQuest 3D has survived the days of testing, it can enter into the next perpetual phase of MMO development, also known as the "fixing and adding things until…
Neo’s Land emerges from multi-month silence to talk about mounts - We will admit that we have been concerned about the state of Neo's Land development considering that the title has been suspiciously quiet for most of this year. Happily, the silence…
Shroud of the Avatar on Tolkien influences and town sieges - Lord of the Rings fans, this week's Shroud of the Avatar newsletter is going to look mighty familiar to you: Level Designer Esteben Zaldivar begins the piece with a look…
Crowfall on the big world, factions, and safeguarding player cities - In Crowfall's November Q&A "is all about Big World," Design Lead Thomas Blair declares, kicking off the episode alongside Creative Director J. Todd Coleman. The pair discuss ore deposit drops,…
Crowfall ‘big world’ Q&A
Campaigns and crowdfunded MMOs we’re watching
3001SQ (Société des Mondes Virtuels) – Kickstarter unsuccessful. Work continues.
AdventureQuest 3D (Artix Entertainment) – Raised 368k;Â hit open beta in October.
Antraxx (Team Antraxx) – Kickstarter canceled.
Ascent: The Space Game (Fluffy Kitten Studios) – Successful KS. Fully launched 2016.
Camelot Unchained (City State) – Kickstarter successful; open donations/packages.
Caribbean Conquest (Invenio) – Kickstarter canceled (site offline).
Contested Space (Zon)
Crowfall (ArtCraft) – Kickstarter successful, open donations/packages
Chronicles of Elyria (Soulbound) – Kickstarter successful, open packages.
Citadel of Sorcery (MMO Magic, Inc.) –Â Open donations.
City of Titans (Missing Worlds Media) – Successful KS.
Descent Underground (Descendent Studios) – Successful KS.
Divergence Online (Stained Glass Llama)Â –Â Three campaigns; now in KS early access.
Dogma: Eternal Night (Prelude Games Factory): Kickstarter over, donor preorder packs.
Dragon of Legends (Thrive Games) – Successful Kickstarter.
Dual Universe (Novaquark) – Kickstarter funded.
Eco (Strange Loop Games)
Edengrad (Huckleberry Games) – Kickstarter funded; EA was slated for Sept. 2016.
Elite: Dangerous (Frontier Developments) – Funded and launched.
Empyrion Online (Eleon) – Kickstarter canceled; launched on Steam early access.
Epic Space (EpicSpace.net)
Ever, Jane (3 Turn Productions) – Now in open beta.
Gloria Victis (Black Eye Games) – Open donations, no end date.
Greed Monger (Greed Monger) – Abandoned, multiple times now.
Grim Dawn (Crate Entertainment) – Funded and launched.
Guns of Icarus (Muse) – Funded and launched.
Hero’s Song (Pixelmage) – KS canceled; Indiegogo made $94K. Early access alpha.
Infinity: Battlescape (I-Novae Studios)
HEX (HEX Entertainment) – Successful Kickstarter, now playable.
Life is Feudal (Bitbox): Indiegogo ended.
LUX (Chimera) – Kickstarter canceled.
Midair (Archetype Studios) – Kickstarter successful.
Nebula Online (Mizar Games) Kickstarter canceled; launched in November.
Neo’s Land (NeoJac Entertainment) –Â Open donations, no end date.
Novus AEterno (Taitale Studios)
Overpower (Hydrant Games) –Â Kickstarter unfunded; heading to early access.
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen (Visionary Realms) –Â Open donations, no end date.
Pathfinder Online (GoblinWorks) – Doom, mostly.
Planet Nomads (Craneballs) – Successful Kickstarter.
Pixel Starships (SavySoda)
Project Gorgon (Elder Game) – Kickstarted in three tries. Indiegogo ends Dec.
Pumpkin Online (Monique)
The Realm: Reawakened (Stephen Nichols) – Ongoing GoFundMe.
The Repopulation (Above & Beyond Technologies) – In middle of engine do-over.
ROKH (Darewise) – Kickstarter canceled; early access delayed to 2017.
The Stomping Land (Alex Fundora) – Abandoned.
Sacrament (Ferocity Unbound) – Kickstarter failed; Patreon ongoing.
Shadow’s Kiss (Clockwork Throne) – Ongoing Patreon.
Shards Online (Citadel Studios)
Shroud of the Avatar (Portalarium) – Successful KS. Final wipe/soft launch July 2016.
Star Citizen (Cloud Imperium) – Ongoing donations/packages.
TUG (Nerd Kingdom) – In middle of year-long revamp after funding surge.
Vigor Roads (NeuronHaze) – Kickstarter unsuccessful; early access planned for 2017.
Dogma Eternal Night test
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