New MMORPG celebrated 2021 release after 7 years of development - but now that is threatened

Crowfallwurde early 2015 officially announced. Back then announced known developers Ralph Foster and J. Todd Coleman say they want to create a whole new type of MMORPG. In July 2021 finally the release took place. But a new letter to investors suggests that the servers could be turned off soon.

What is in writing The letter to investors paints a pretty bleak picture of Crow fall?:

The numbers of the game should have remained below expectations. It already came to layoffs and the active development team Crow fall was further reduced. J. Todd Coleman about is already working on a new game, code-named Atlas. The company had initially set itself as goal to make only $1 million minus a quarter. Currently, there are about 770,000 dollars but a month. In Q3 2020, the company made a loss of 2.4 million. In the third quarter of 2021 — and thus one quarter after the release — there are still 2.4 million US dollars minus. Although there were revenues of just under $1 million, but the spending has increased at the same rate.

The outlook for the future also does not look positive. It says in a statement:

If we notice any significant difference in performance until the end of November, we have to decide whether: A: We are continuing to invest in features and content from Crow fall B: We reduce our investments in Crow fall and leave it running in the Maintenance Mode C: switch off, and our second project prioritized (code named Atlas).

It also states that a shutdown of Crow fall reduce costs and burnout would prevent up to July / August 2021st

As the performance of Crow fall is currently? Recently tried the developers with free trial accounts, discounts and provide twitch Drops for more attention. At least from the outside, there was no noticeable performance improvement of Crow fall. The game is still very small presence in the public and the servers were today very empty on 6 December, as usual.

This suggests that Art Craft in the coming days or weeks one of three options must draw. Options B and C should the players Crow fall have been waiting for the release of the partial year, but not much.

What is it anyway for a letter? Crow fall developed by the indie studio Art Craft Entertainment. In turn, have several investors who are informed every quarter about the state of the company.

One of these letters now came to the public, but was now in the forum deleted and Reddit. Extracts from the YouTuber Karate has been shown on its channel:

Crow fall wanted to be innovative and to settle accounts with the genre

Why does the impending end hurt so much? 2015 Crow fall was announced as a game that the MMORPG genre would shake up. It wanted Theme park- and sandbox reconnect, strategy elements installed and thereby create different scenarios that a Season Game of Thrones should play like.

Were planned several worlds in which players win the MMORPG could. Profits should then be placed in a permanent social world: the Eternal Kingdoms. In addition, a broad class system was announced, with 11 classes and a total of 33 sub-classes.

It quickly became clear, however, is that Crow fall more of a niche of old school and PVP fans judge would. But even that could not be convinced.

What are the problems? To Release Crow fall had some problems, including poor optimization and performance, a getting used to interface a rather weak tutorial and a boring crafting system.

In addition, to Crow fall that highly depends on a PVP community. It thrives on PVP battles for castles and planned mass slaughter. But for that it needs a strong community. And it is this missing the start.

This is also because the players who have supported Crow fall with money, jumped off to a large extent already in the Alpha and Beta is. This in turn was also due to performance issues, but also permanent changes in the game systems. In addition, the game was so long in a test stage that many players had enough had it at some point, once again playing the same game from the beginning. For to every release, there was a wipe of progress.

What do you say to Crow fall? Do you have the MMORPG already tried or have just lost their fingers on it? Would you have thought that it would be so soon after release such problems?