That title is horrible to read.
Steam Quietly Withdraws Under Fire MMO Ashes of Creation From Sale As Fans Wonder Who's Left to Maintain the Servers
Submitted 3 weeks ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
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uberdonut@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Alloi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ive hated the use of “quiet” in clickbait articles headlines for a while now. i assume anything writing it is AI slop at this point. its just too common to ignore.
“this company just quietly did this thing”
" you wont believe what this CEO has been quietly investing in since COVID"
“this politician just said the quiet part out loud!”
“these are the top ten projects that countries have been quietly building for 20 years, you wont believe #9!”
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I always had a bad feeling about this game, it sucks that it actually panned out.
MBech@feddit.dk 2 weeks 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.
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 weeks 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.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 3 weeks 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.
whatsisface@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Don’t worry! Ashes of Creation is self-funded so it won’t have any of the issues that other MMOs have.
/s
duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s a shame people get paid to write headlines like that.
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fucking sons of a bitches, a pox on private equity firms, I hope they all get leprosy.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
MotoAsh@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I hope they all get untreated ciphilis.
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Not very effectively. Canceling the product isn’t usually great for profits.
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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.