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Crowfall Will Go Offline and Head Back into Development, as the Team Rethinks the MMO | MMORPG.com

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edited November 2022 in News & Features Discussion

imageCrowfall Will Go Offline and Head Back into Development, as the Team Rethinks the MMO | MMORPG.com

After several changes, Crowfall will be taken offline this month and re-enter active development for a future relaunch. The team is "rethinking" what that relaunch will look like.

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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273
    edited November 2022
    It is a tough decision to make, but CF is hardly the only MMO that has "launched" in the last few years and really been at the beta or earlier stage of development. Will it recover, hard to say, but this idea you can launch and keep updating the game to a more solid state is fraught with issues. Will "Crowfall Unchained" get the players in, we can but wait and see.
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  • 2TonGamer2TonGamer Member UncommonPosts: 54
    The PvP aspect of it is why I did not stick around. I thought the crafting, the races and some of the class gameplay was decent and would have rather enjoyed it possibly had there been PvE. Good luck to them.
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  • GreatnessGreatness Member UncommonPosts: 2,188
    This may never come back again or released with again very little buzz unfortunately. Their chance especially for new IP and smaller developer to recover is exceedingly low (ie in comparison to FFXIV).
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  • Asm0deusAsm0deus Member EpicPosts: 4,600
    It ended up being that bad hmm.

    I have to agree with that other poster above and bet if they had a pve only server it would have fared much better.
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  • k61977k61977 Member EpicPosts: 1,523

    2TonGamer said:

    The PvP aspect of it is why I did not stick around. I thought the crafting, the races and some of the class gameplay was decent and would have rather enjoyed it possibly had there been PvE. Good luck to them.



    This was me also. I gave it a try, but just didn't enjoy the pvp at all. Would have played more if there was a pve part of the game as I did enjoy the crafting and gathering parts.
    KyleranMendel
  • rtbbvrrtbbvr Member UncommonPosts: 166
    Sad, but this is an interesting call. The game fell into the design trap of creating a PvP focused MMO. Theres such a delicate balance between making it fun for a range of players to support such a grand design, and the risk of ruining that exact design in the process of making it appealing to more players. Theres not a ton of overlap anymore of those kinds of player bases, so you're required to give people something they didn't know they wanted. I don't want to run around and get swarmed over by a larger group. I don't want the PvP walled behind such an unrelated grind.
    Kyleran
  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    Tone-deaf developers and their equally tone-deaf hardcore biggest fans did this in their echo chamber.

    Their horse ended up having 2 humps on its back... who could have guessed that outcome?

    :)
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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    Iselin said:
    Tone-deaf developers and their equally tone-deaf hardcore biggest fans did this in their echo chamber.

    Their horse ended up having 2 humps on its back... who could have guessed that outcome?

    :)
    Don't forget about the trunk.  

    A platypus was designed better than CF.



    At least these are silly cute...



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  • lahnmirlahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,050
    Kyleran said:
    Iselin said:
    Tone-deaf developers and their equally tone-deaf hardcore biggest fans did this in their echo chamber.

    Their horse ended up having 2 humps on its back... who could have guessed that outcome?

    :)
    Don't forget about the trunk.  

    A platypus was designed better than CF.



    At least these are silly cute...



    And totally poisonous.

    /Cheers,
    Lahnmir
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    'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless. 

    It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.

    It is just huge resource waste....'

    Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer

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  • DattelisDattelis Member EpicPosts: 1,674
    That's great for them but if I see another kickstarter or crowdfunding packs about it.....
    Mensur
  • MensurMensur Member EpicPosts: 1,531
    The arrogance of the previous devs is what made me doubt this game from the start...hint shadowbane
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  • TillerTiller Member LegendaryPosts: 11,449

    Mensur said:

    The arrogance of the previous devs is what made me doubt this game from the start...hint shadowbane



    That and probably Raph Koster's input during development with his idea of 'fun'. Games should be a second job and they should punish you tremendously for playing them because it's funner that way.
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  • Blowfeld81Blowfeld81 Member UncommonPosts: 76
    I guess this is how the IP disappears completely ... silently.... even more silently than it hit the market ; D
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  • MahloMahlo Member UncommonPosts: 814
    I’m watching this development from the perspective of an ex-Boundless player. I wonder what Monumental will do with that neglected game. Was Crowfall in a worse state than monumental anticipated? It makes me more confused as to their motivation in buying up these failing games.
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  • TillerTiller Member LegendaryPosts: 11,449
    DarkZorvanReturns said:
    Tiller said:

    Mensur said:

    The arrogance of the previous devs is what made me doubt this game from the start...hint shadowbane



    That and probably Raph Koster's input during development with his idea of 'fun'. Games should be a second job and they should punish you tremendously for playing them because it's funner that way.
    And people wonder why I call Koster just another has-been, never-will-be-again hack. His latest bit was latching on to that whole "metaverse" BS. Haven't heard shit from him since Zuckerberg imploded and made the term "metaverse" a poison pill.

    It was annoying how these developers were trying to sell us on the idea that the metaverse was something new, different and revolutionary when in fact it was just an VR MMO broken up into a bunch of tiny rooms.
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  • OldKingLogOldKingLog Member RarePosts: 600
    Mahlo said:
    I’m watching this development from the perspective of an ex-Boundless player. I wonder what Monumental will do with that neglected game. Was Crowfall in a worse state than monumental anticipated? It makes me more confused as to their motivation in buying up these failing games.

    Tax shelter mayhapse?
  • AngrakhanAngrakhan Member EpicPosts: 1,750
    edited November 2022
    Wow. While I assumed this game would go nowhere simply due to its PvP focus, I didn't expect Crowfall to well... Eat Crow... And basically come out with a mea culpa acknowledging that the game is top to bottom garbage. Considering the arrogance spewed around during the early stages of development I figured they'd just quietly run their little niche game or quietly shut it down and go away. Best of luck to them but my guess is this is going the way of Anthem. They'll spend a few months poking it with a stick and declare "it's dead, Jim".
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  • TheDalaiBombaTheDalaiBomba Member EpicPosts: 1,493
    lahnmir said:
    Kyleran said:
    Iselin said:
    Tone-deaf developers and their equally tone-deaf hardcore biggest fans did this in their echo chamber.

    Their horse ended up having 2 humps on its back... who could have guessed that outcome?

    :)
    Don't forget about the trunk.  

    A platypus was designed better than CF.



    At least these are silly cute...



    And totally poisonous.

    /Cheers,
    Lahnmir
    Holy shit, I never knew that.
  • moosecatlolmoosecatlol Member RarePosts: 1,531
    Soon to be Battle Royal with Cheese #24296
  • Viper482Viper482 Member LegendaryPosts: 4,099
    So much this game does right, if they can manage to fix it this could be the next big comeback.
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  • Gobstopper3DGobstopper3D Member RarePosts: 970

    Blowfeld81 said:

    I guess this is how the IP disappears completely ... silently.... even more silently than it hit the market ; D



    I didn't know it had even gone live. I had totally forgotten about it. Was never that interested in it, but nothing wrong with more variety for people to choose from.

    I'm not an IT Specialist, Game Developer, or Clairvoyant in real life, but like others on here, I play one on the internet.

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