A difficult update, but not unexpected after all this time. 10 years is a helluva timeline to release nothing 🥲

...even after a major reboot of the game engine...

Custom engines claim another victim.

Game dev is hard. Game engines are apparently impossible and cost prohibitive these days, unless licensed out en masse. They're killing studios and franchises left and right.

Let this be a lesson : do not re-develop your game engine when it's almost done already.

You can't delay your game until it's perfect as if you were Shigeru Miyamoto. You need to get something playable with a solid base out the dole, and iterate with feedback.

Predictable AF, unfortunately

That's really sad. Can we at least have their stuff now? I mean it would be a waste to not open-source all the code and assets they've developed and make them available under MIT, CC and similar licenses.

Mismanaged out of existence. Should have just released, got some funds flowing, dealt with complaints, and then fixed them as time went on.

Shouldn't have wasted all the time with a reboot of the engine, as that just further endangered them.

Really disappointed. Was gearing up to be a more complete game than Minecraft was. Could've been mod friendly out the gate too.

The silver lining is they didn't steal people's money with empty promises like TUG.

FUUUUUUUUUUCK wasz so lꝏkin forward to that game ‼️‼️‼️‼️💀

I'm not surprised, the opportunity that Hytale devs were given had been squandered thoughtlessly. I believe the game's fate would've been different with a playable EA version. One that generated sales while building hype with major patches. With a game that has good bones, this style of development works rather well.

I'm sorry to see this happen. I honestly thought it was dead a long time ago, but still sad to learn it didn't make it.

Oh no, seriously?! Damn... all these years of waiting for many people... what a damn disappointment.

I guess the scope was too ambitious. Economy is not doing that well so AAA studios don't like to take any risks. Both this and Blizzard's survival game was cancelled. It is sad that so many developer hours are wasted on these projects and we get nothing out of it. It would be amazing if these games would get released as open source for someone else to finish it.

I think that's the longest way I've ever seen of "Our parent studio decided this game isn't financially feasible and told us to stop".

This project is definitely a parent studio decided that they didn't like the game, so they decided to cancel it. Especially after Vintage Story proved that that type of game will sell, not at the metrics that a studio like Riot would want, but it would sell.

Judging by the graphics in it that they've released so far, it definitely looks like they were a good portion into development as well, which is a shame.

Damn.

Hypixel Minecraft was terribly monitized and had illegal gambling on it.

Good they are down, we don't need more EAs or ubislops

XD I knew it will happen after Riot bought the studio, farawell

Damn :(

I'll say it a million times: they tried to copy several games but ignored the development structure that made them successful: release a minimum version and work on it alongside the community.

A lot of people saw this coming since when they announced that they were completely restarting development of their engine.

They let perfect be the enemy of good enough and so not a single build ever saw public release.

So this is how I learn that the team that run that Minecraft server were apparently making a Minecraft knockoff with Riot. Okay then.