Any new characters planned?

[Shoah Kahn]

Like, that quest-giver NPC woman -- are they going to expand the playable roster beyond what it is? They added that Nordic character... So, I assume, more are in the pipeline...(?)

[Elveone]

At this point I do not think the game generated enough revenue to warrant further development so do not expect any new characters.

[Shoah Kahn]

^ There are 22,000+ reviews for it... That usually means double or more who bought it. Is it on consoles? If they added more characters, people would certainly be more interested... MMO styled games really need it to keep them fresh.

[Elveone]

The problem is that quite a lot of the people who have bought and reviewed the game bought it when it first launched into early access and not after Airship Syndicate took over as a publisher. Those sales went to Digital Extremes, the previous publisher, and not to AS who self-published after DE closed their publishing branch and discontinued funding on the project. The studio has been bleeding money and employees since then losing about 40% of the people working there in the last 6 months.

[Carnatux]

No word outside only if sales go well which we don't currently have a metric for and steam chart numbers are not very large. Pretty much think we're waiting for Xbox numbers to settle then they may say what's going to happen. Hoping for the raid and new zone they mentioned doing if funding was good

[Geardo]

Try the Discord or here the Feedback section

[Shoah Kahn]

Originally posted by Elveone:

not after Airship Syndicate took over as a publisher. Those sales went to Digital Extremes, the previous publisher, and not to AS who self-published after DE closed their publishing branch and discontinued funding on the project

Was they during the transition from MMO to stand-alone game, or during the latter, re-incarnated version of the game's development...?

[Elveone]

Originally posted by Shoah Kahn:

Originally posted by Elveone:

not after Airship Syndicate took over as a publisher. Those sales went to Digital Extremes, the previous publisher, and not to AS who self-published after DE closed their publishing branch and discontinued funding on the project

Was they during the transition from MMO to stand-alone game, or during the latter, re-incarnated version of the game's development...?

Not sure exactly what you are asking so I'm going with a general timeline of events.

The game launched in Early Access with Digital Extremes as a publisher on 17th of August 2023. DE had built up hype for the game but the servers were not up to snuff so the majority of both sales and negative reviews happened during the few weeks following that date.

On 10th of November 2023 Digital Extremes closed their publishing branch. That was mainly due to change in studio leadership and with it a change of direction. Wayfinder's development funding was cut at that point and Airship Syndicate, the studio behind Wayfinder continued development on their own funds. They were initially searching for a new publisher for the project but they could not find one that fit their criteria. This might have been due to the negative reputation of the botched launch and the late stage of the game's development but might also have been due to the other party requiring more severe monetization. In any case the search continued a few months.

On 8th of April 2024 AS announced that they would be publishing the game themselves and stopped the sales of the founder packs with the intention to relaunch the game as a single player game. All revenue from sales prior to that date went to Digital Extremes and not to Airship Syndicate.

On 15th of May 2024 AS officially announced the transition to a single player game.

On 30th of May 2024 the old founders got to play the new version of the game and a couple of weeks later on 11th of June the game got released back for sale. The revenue after this point would go to Airship Syndicate.

[Shoah Kahn]

Originally posted by Elveone:

the intention to relaunch the game as a single player game [...] On 15th of May 2024 AS officially announced the transition to a single player game.

The game is co-op multiplayer... I assume by "single-player", you mean, stand-alone game that is not server reliant (?).

Notwithstanding, that tale implies that the game has been treated like an unwanted, 'mutt pregnancy... Which makes it a minor miracle that it made it into a fully-fledge product... and, in odd way, gives me hope that they may support it with more content. After all, it would have made some money by now, and is still there to make more if they can maintain interest in it -- something only support and content can achieve.

[いか]

Originally posted by Shoah Kahn:

Originally posted by Elveone:

the intention to relaunch the game as a single player game [...] On 15th of May 2024 AS officially announced the transition to a single player game.

The game is co-op multiplayer... I assume by "single-player", you mean, stand-alone game that is not server reliant (?).

Notwithstanding, that tale implies that the game has been treated like an unwanted, 'mutt pregnancy... Which makes it a minor miracle that it made it into a fully-fledge product... and, in odd way, gives me hope that they may support it with more content. After all, it would have made some money by now, and is still there to make more if they can maintain interest in it -- something only support and content can achieve.

They messed up not making this a hub based game like capcon pulls for every hunter game.
Had they just used that model I think this game and it's world would of been hotter. Especially since games like Dauntless started to drop away due to changes in their gameplay.

It's a bummer. It's not even a bad game. They just chose the most boring way to keep the mp. Then again it doesn't seem like choice.

I'm more curious to know if the current dev team actually gets the cash for sales now or if it's towards a now ghost ship company.,

[PaulGR]

With an average of 250 players, I highly doubt it. Just picked it up as it is on a -50% sale currently.

[Ranch]

It doesnt even run good after all this time. They have no funding

[Shoah Kahn]

Originally posted by Ranch:

It doesnt even run good after all this time. They have no funding

Nor does MH Wilds, and Capcom have unlimited resources... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[wowcoh56]

Originally posted by Ranch:

It doesnt even run good after all this time. They have no funding

I noticed improvements in optimization after last patch so hopefully they continue to refine the game. I would love to be able to play each character from the beginning of the game, I don't like having to unlock characters and they choose which one I want to play. I was hoping to play all the characters through the entire thing.

[Ranch]

Originally posted by wowcoh56:

Originally posted by Ranch:

It doesnt even run good after all this time. They have no funding

I noticed improvements in optimization after last patch so hopefully they continue to refine the game. I would love to be able to play each character from the beginning of the game, I don't like having to unlock characters and they choose which one I want to play. I was hoping to play all the characters through the entire thing.

Well ill keep an eye on it because id absolutely love to play it. If it looks like theyve fixed performance, great.

[Munnky]

I don't want AS to fail but I hope they recover enough so they can move on to their next great game. Battle Chaser 2 maybe??