This week appears to be the kind of week where we flip through the old albums and see why there hasn’t been anything major cropping up. This time around we’re circling back to Legends of Aria Classic, the relaunched version of the original sandbox MMORPG that suffered, among other things, a selloff to a crypto company and the subsequent launch of a crypto version that predictably went belly up, while Classic relaunched in May under Citadel’s original banner and promised an overhaul in June. So whatever happened to this MMO?
Not a whole lot. Official comms on the game’s Steam page have all completely trailed off, leaving us to rifle through the game’s Discord, which is where we find word of a playtest client opening in September and some small patch announcements in September and October.
Otherwise, the last major missive from developer Citadel Studios was the aforementioned revamp post, leaving players to wonder aloud on both platforms what is happening. There are also some unconfirmed allegations from players that developers were fired for cheating in the game.
Still some semi-recent chatter in the Discord suggests some patience as the proposed revamp is likely taking a long time. Yet with Steam users declaring its death and only two players online at the time of this story’s writing, it’s hard to assume the best case scenario.
