What happened?

[Jon.Topps]

From what I can tell, DE took off, and the devs of Wayfinder took all their work and turned it into a totally single player game, like your typically single player ARPG?
So it' just like other games then, that you have to buy the product, then you own it?
Is there still microtransaction garbage?
I'm seeing good reviews overall, which is a bit surprising. Did this actually turn out alright? I was somewhat enjoying the original experience when it came out.

[Hound Archon]

No microtransactions, you buy it, you get everything now. I got it yesterday after I saw the Grendel trailer on Youtube and man, I am enjoying it immensely. This is the game I never knew I needed until I played it.

Tastes differ of course, but it scratches my looter-hoarder instincts the way Warframe never quite managed to.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Digital Extremes closed its publishing arm, and after Airship Syndicate managed to recover the rights to Wayfinder, they hard pivoted the game from a free-to-play pseudo-MMO like Warframe to a single-box-price-with-no-microtransactions singleplayer-with-coop title like Borderlands or Remnant: From the Ashes. You'll still see vestiges of the old MMO design in the current game here and there, but otherwise, most people engaged with the game will tell you this is the best version of the game.

[Jon.Topps]

Oh so there's still coop?

And did Airship Syndicate win anything in legal battles? Like that's super scummy to support a dev, and then at the most pivotal moment just completely back out.
Obviously they should get the rights in DE is going to toss it in the dumpster, and they ruined the whole thing anyways, lol, but did they get anything like reparations?

[Fraggoth]

Originally posted by Jon.Topps:

Oh so there's still coop?

And did Airship Syndicate win anything in legal battles? Like that's super scummy to support a dev, and then at the most pivotal moment just completely back out.
Obviously they should get the rights in DE is going to toss it in the dumpster, and they ruined the whole thing anyways, lol, but did they get anything like reparations?

There is indeed still co-op. Right now it's invite-based, so you'll be making use of your Friend List, but they're working on a quick-match system. It's not implemented yet but they've shown off the prototype, so it's coming along.

As for legal info, if any of those legal battles ended in a settlement we may never hear about the details, since that stuff is often paired with a nondisclosure clause/agreement, or they may have already signed a non-disparage agreement ahead of time. At any rate Airship Syndicate seems to still be afloat - I guess that what matters in the end?

[forumcrybaby]

from dead MMO no one is playing to dead single player game no one is playing.

[Banzai]

Originally posted by biofail:

from dead MMO no one is playing to dead single player game no one is playing.

Nobody cares what cheaters think about video games.

[SQLOwns]

Originally posted by biofail:

from dead MMO no one is playing to dead single player game no one is playing.

impossible to know how many people are playing single player games, stay mad