A few weeks back, the few remaining Might and Delight developers admitted in print that Kickstarted MMO Book of Travels is basically in maintenance mode. While the devs promise that they’ll keep the servers up and will keep updating, there’s little hope for the content updates once promised when the game first hit early access.
“We want you to know that we are patching and updating the current game build ongoing. Future updates will include a focus on community requests and a balancing pass for the inventory. However, we want to let you all know that content updates will be rare and far in-between.”
I thought it was worth discussing this level of candor. A lot of MMO devs will just quietly vanish and hope nobody notices that nothing has happened with the game as the years tick on. I still do our Make My MMO column, and I see dozens of those games on our list, the kind that just stop updating and hope nobody notices too loudly. I guess Steam will now be flagging abandonware, and perhaps that’s why some devs are popping up to make statements now. But while it’s painful, I personally appreciate when the devs just admit what’s going on and set expectations for players. Some games just don’t succeed and it’s fine. Don’t ghost us, you know?
How about you – do you appreciate brutal honesty from MMORPG devs?
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