Comment on HyTale just got cancelled, HyPixel studios winding down over the next few months
Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I think that’s the longest way I’ve ever seen. “Our parent studio decided this game isn’t financially feasible and told us to stop” I’ve ever read.
popcar2@programming.dev 3 days ago
If you’ve read the past few development updates, it’s very likely that the team leadership is at fault and not Riot. They basically spent the last ~3 years moving the game to a new engine and the most they had to show was some concept art. I hoped that they were developing in secret to have some big reveal down the line, but it seems like the game really was going nowhere.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I think you might need to reread the rest of my comment, because I think we’re on the same mentality.
I’ve read the article, and I read the last development update, which seemed to be leading in the direction that they had fully intended on making a project.
Their previous update is actually what made me have the mentality that I currently have, not the article you posted.
The previous update was a progress update saying that they were beginning internal testing and they released images of what looked to be a fairly progressed game. And they had seemed super hopeful for the future. That is not an update that screams this project’s on the urge of being shut down.
I stand firm with what I said that this game would have had potential. And while they didn’t make the greatest development decisions, I don’t believe the choice to shutter the project was their choice. That’s a lot of wasted effort for a team like that, and if they lasted this long the choice to close wasn’t theirs.