Does the developer still support the game?

[puddingy.boom]

Is the game no longer under development? It has not been updated by the production team after February 2023

[puddingy.boom]

Ihope the people in the war can return safely

[Skulls]

No, they abandoned all their games.

[Antares]

No one knows about the status of the devs. Considering the almost complete state of the game logic dictates the devs would have finished it (or at least released a few more updates till now) if they where physically able to access the www/their computers to continue develop it & finish it up.

Even from a quick money scam perspective it would be more viable to beat the drums of this; an almost finished title with, at least in its active prime, favourable reviews/reception and a great reference title to point at for any future projects; then to scuttle and try again with some new thing from the ground up. Thats like refusing to pick up your 1 million $ lottery winnings because you want the crack an ATM for a few 1000 bucks.

But thats merely my assessment of it, not me knowing anything about anything.

[Yuya]

I don't think it is that they abandoned their games. It is more likely that they were probably drafted since I believe that the studio is based in either Russia or Ukraine not sure which. If it is the former I just hope they were not used in some of those human wave attacks that have been going on.

[Antares]

Originally posted by Yuya:

I don't think it is that they abandoned their games. It is more likely that they were probably drafted since I believe that the studio is based in either Russia or Ukraine not sure which. If it is the former I just hope they were not used in some of those human wave attacks that have been going on.

Ppl with coding knowledge said the code is in Chinese. So they could also have been imprisoned/send to reeducation camp for some kind of wrongthought or where simply horny but very talented minors that are not allowed to spend the amount of time on gaming devices anymore 'cause of recentish law changes in China regarding underage gaming time. Honestly; as hilarious as that would be I really hope thats the case since thats the best chance we have to see them getting it finished :P

[Kiryn]

Originally posted by Antares:

Even from a quick money scam perspective it would be more viable to beat the drums of this; an almost finished title with, at least in its active prime, favourable reviews/reception and a great reference title to point at for any future projects; then to scuttle and try again with some new thing from the ground up. Thats like refusing to pick up your 1 million $ lottery winnings because you want the crack an ATM for a few 1000 bucks.

It also doesn't really fit as a "quick money scam", given that the game originally came out in 2020 (I bought it in April that year), and they put out patches over the years after that. So they put a good bit of work into the thing, with only new sales giving them more $ (no mtx, etc) over all that time. Pretty inefficient if they were just after "quick money".

In the end, it's a small team that's had a variety of problems (there were issues with publisher, and a bankruptcy? and a lot of re-coding big sections of the game, etc). Sure, the game isn't "finished", but what's there isn't that bad. I got ~170 hours out of it over various versions & patches, so. . . /shrug

[LivingLitch]

Originally posted by Antares:

Originally posted by Yuya:

I don't think it is that they abandoned their games. It is more likely that they were probably drafted since I believe that the studio is based in either Russia or Ukraine not sure which. If it is the former I just hope they were not used in some of those human wave attacks that have been going on.

Ppl with coding knowledge said the code is in Chinese. So they could also have been imprisoned/send to reeducation camp for some kind of wrongthought or where simply horny but very talented minors that are not allowed to spend the amount of time on gaming devices anymore 'cause of recentish law changes in China regarding underage gaming time. Honestly; as hilarious as that would be I really hope thats the case since thats the best chance we have to see them getting it finished :P

Im thinking it could be a mixed Russian/Chinese team. The game is offered with an interface in English, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese. English covers The U.S., canada, UK, and Australlia and its a big second language for many europeans. China and Japan are worth a ton of sales. Russia is known for Piracy. The only reason to make a game in Russia on Steam is because the team already knows it because they are there. If you look at other games, they differentiate being in Russian and being in Ukrainian.

My guess - Small game dev studio. The updates were coming out constantly because this was their only job. Is it possible they worked on it after normal work? Yes. Doubtful though. That would leave almost no energy for family, friends, and having a life. If all they were doing was making a game, the red army might see them as wasting their time and thus send them off to war, hence no news of any kind in a year.

I hope Im wrong about that though.

[Denguin]

Thanks Biden

[GaspidarIII]

This is one of the few times where the game needs to be in the people's hands.

[Demigod Dan]

Originally posted by Antares:

Originally posted by Yuya:

I don't think it is that they abandoned their games. It is more likely that they were probably drafted since I believe that the studio is based in either Russia or Ukraine not sure which. If it is the former I just hope they were not used in some of those human wave attacks that have been going on.

Ppl with coding knowledge said the code is in Chinese. So they could also have been imprisoned/send to reeducation camp for some kind of wrongthought or where simply horny but very talented minors that are not allowed to spend the amount of time on gaming devices anymore 'cause of recentish law changes in China regarding underage gaming time. Honestly; as hilarious as that would be I really hope thats the case since thats the best chance we have to see them getting it finished :P

This game participating in the steam summer sale = proof that none of these forced abandonment theories are true, because developers actively determine for each sale if they want to take part and what the sale discount % amount should be set to for the duration of it. Steam itself does not do this, so if the devs were no longer around, then you'd see no discount during any sale periods.

They are likely trying to get more money to fund any further development or they keep repeating this until simply moving out of EA one day in the case of not wanting to work on their projects anymore (lack of ideas, motivation etc.). It could well be related to the whole bai lan (let it rot) trend goin around (in China especially), simply not wanting to put in any more effort and do the bare minimum to get sales with what they have available right now.

[Arkblade]

It's a little known fact that Steam sales actually have to be set up by the developers themselves (even seasonal sales!).
Therefore, as long as it is on sale now, someone must care about this game.

The problem would be that we don't know what is going on in this game.
If there is some problem and the current status is 1.0, that is fine with me.
An announcement to that effect should be made.

[Robert Zerker]

Check this thread for info on the devs :
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1213740/discussions/0/4206993388790223797/

Originally posted by Arkblade:

It's a little known fact that Steam sales actually have to be set up by the developers themselves (even seasonal sales!).
Therefore, as long as it is on sale now, someone must care about this game.

This doesn't mean they care about the game the same way some people do...

It only means they care about making money with it in its current state :

"No matter the quality of the product as long as it sells." is, I guess, the philosophy behind it.

[Interruptman]

Originally posted by Robert Zerker:

Check this thread for info on the devs :
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1213740/discussions/0/4206993388790223797/

Originally posted by Arkblade:

It's a little known fact that Steam sales actually have to be set up by the developers themselves (even seasonal sales!).
Therefore, as long as it is on sale now, someone must care about this game.

This doesn't mean they care about the game the same way some people do...

This also doesn't mean they don't care about the game.
We don't know, what's wrong with them at the moment.

[Candesco]

Originally posted by Interruptman:

Originally posted by Robert Zerker:

Check this thread for info on the devs :
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1213740/discussions/0/4206993388790223797/



This doesn't mean they care about the game the same way some people do...

This also doesn't mean they don't care about the game.
We don't know, what's wrong with them at the moment.

No, that not, but there is also no news. Not even a small update, so at the first place it looks like they just run away. Though the site is still up and running, only outdated. Same with socials. And the sub reddit of this game got closed.
Now all kind of wild theories comes up. That they are ukrainians who are based in china and that kind of crap. And the "proof" of some are some meager linkedin pages and youtube movie, as well as referring to even imdb (internet movie database)
But whatever the case is, thing is that the game got abandoned.

[Citizen Smith]

It is possible they may come back to the game. case in point, a small game called Maelstrom came out about 2017/18, got updates until 2020 then went radio silent. Fast forward to about a month or 2 ago when the devs started talking again which got the very small yet hardcore playerbase interested again.

this could just be another Maelstrom instance.