Soulbound Studios has even admitted that Kickstarter was only “seed funding” used to raise money for a prototype to attract investors. They even went as far as making an official CoE Lawsuit Discord channel to coordinate. To make a long story short, Soulbound Studios found itself wrapped up in a class-action lawsuit with a mob of angry backers at their heels. Walsh then snatched up interviews with MassivelyOP and for some damage control. That's the hardest thing I've ever had to do. As many of you know, it became necessary to shut my game company down this week. Hey Twitter, I didn't want to go dark without warning, so here's my announcement: I'm going to be off Twitter for a while. Worse still, the game stopped being made a week after this event started. People were buying up virtual tracts of land in order to play as nobility in a game that wasn’t even finished yet. Set to run for 45 days starting from March 14th, the community was given the “opportunity to stake a land claim” on one of four available servers. The announcement was made through the game’s forum site wherein he explained that his entire team had been laid off and Elyria’s development was ground to a halt.Ī mere week before this announcement, Elyria held a Dutch Auction event called Settlers of Elyria. On March 25th of 2020, lead developer Caspian, aka Jeromy Walsh, cited COVID-19 as the predominant reason for funds running out. The game’s initial release was scheduled for the Q4 of 2017, until it was repeatedly delayed. You’re even supposed to be able to inherit titles and lord over your own land as nobility. Character customisation extends to marriage and then family members who are bound by the laws of genetics.

Survival stats are also meant to be included on top of everything else. The game claims more than just these aspects. Neat, but without normal NPC quests, how do I level? What if there isn’t anyone around who wants to do my quest? What if there are no quest givers? Elyria promised to prevent scamming in these instances by making players sign “in-game contracts” to form binding agreements. If you want to play as an alchemist, but need reagents, you could enlist the help of your fellow adventurer. The non-repeatable quests are a means for players to “give out tasks” to other players. At the very least, the ageing and dying system for an MMO sounded unique. We simply don’t have the technology for something that complex yet. Thousands of simultaneous players, all able to destroy and change the environment at any given moment? Unlikely. The problem with claims like these is the scope that it promises.

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