There’s been very little of substance communicated since, apart from a brief Discord message about hiring two new fresh-from-college developers. In fact, it took these dudes 10 days after the Kickstarter funded to actually post anything at all, in spite of their promises (and basic gratitude and crowdfunding decorum), and then it was a fluffy promotional bit for Discord.
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In the days immediately following the end of the Kickstarter, the devs flaked, multiple videos and interviews disappeared from the internet, and the Discord went full cult-mode.
Nevertheless, the Kickstarter funded for over $64,000 from 663 humans who will never see their money again unless Kickstarter puts a stop to it all, which seems unlikely at this point since Kickstarter nets $3200 if it just does nothing. In interviews, the pair of devs even talk up significant YCombinator investment and bragged about counting a Twitch co-founder and Google senior VP as investors, but they were light on details about how their tech could revolutionize the genre. As we noted at the time, the Kickstarter was stuffed chiefly with stock assets and promises to put an “infinite open world MMO” with “millions of players” in a “single world” – i.e., the kind of thing the most brilliant and experienced minds in the industry would surely done already if it were so easy that two kids could do it during a pandemic.
A couple of weeks back, we covered the impending Kickstarter funding of Dreamworld, a game by a couple of MMORPG industry novices promising the moon and throwing up red flags left and right.
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