Steam Quietly Withdraws Under Fire MMO Ashes of Creation From Sale As Fans Wonder Who's Left to Maintain the Servers

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• Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unless the monetization announcements are false, it would seem that they sold their souls to private equity, who have now turned around to milk the game for profits.

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not very effectively. Canceling the product isn’t usually great for profits.

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    • Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We might have to wait until their announcement on the 13th to know more, but if the launching of new merch and discussions of overseas development is anything to go by, they might not be canceling it, but rather replacing the entire development team with a new one, all the while implementing microtransactions everywhere.

      They’ll have lost most of the public’s goodwill in the process for doing so though.

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  • TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fucking sons of a bitches, a pox on private equity firms, I hope they all get leprosy.

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean, yeah.

      However, in this particular case I think the CEO was running this as a pump and dump for nearly a decade, claiming to be fully funded and having no board (because he claimed it was self funded), and giving himself massive raises year over year.

      So a private equity firm bought something hollow. I have some guesses about it. Probably a friend of his, probably got it cheap, and is about to gut whatever is left now that the guy who did own it got out with what he could. Why would PE buy it otherwise? There’s no goodwill or name to cash in on like what’s being done with Native Instruments.

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    • MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I hope they all get untreated ciphilis.

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• uberdonut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That title is horrible to read.

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• BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I always had a bad feeling about this game, it sucks that it actually panned out.

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was hoping it would become what they were trying to sell, but I had every expectation of it becoming everything that is wrong about MMOs. The biggest sign was demanding $100 for people to be alpha testers. You should be paying people that instead.

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Economic realities exist. You cannot plausible fund a product that is this out there without some community support. And if you don’t plan on selling mtx but be mostly free you gotta make a lot of money. Servers are expensive, yo.

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  • SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In 2019, I had a bunch of people try sell me on the game when they did the original node auctions. It was doomed from back then. I never thought the game would release.

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• whatsisface@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t worry! Ashes of Creation is self-funded so it won’t have any of the issues that other MMOs have.

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• duelistsage@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s a shame people get paid to write headlines like that.

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