Servers Closing for Sword Coast Legends

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Hello Adventurers,

As of 10 a.m. ET, July 25, our multiplayer servers for the game will be taken offline and all stored player data will be deleted. If you own the game in your Steam library, you will still have access to any offline content including the single player campaign.

Thank you for playing and supporting Sword Coast Legends.

[Harry]

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Draculajr eredeti hozzászólása:

Purchase Sword Coast Legends now at 67% off and receive the Rage of Demons DLC for free. Our publishing contracting is ending, but although Sword Coast Legends will no longer be available to purchase after December, its multiplayer servers will remain live indefinitely.

Cheers! That must be the shortest "indefinitely" of all time...!!!

Unfortunately, n-Space went bankrupt and its developers certainly moved on with their lives. I don't know who was responsible for promising the "indefinite time" but really that person or company should be made accountable for at least false advertising (or provide appropriate remedies for the situation). Is there any legal action that can be done?

I was going through old games in my steam library, and realised I had this game. Thought I might give it a try, as I am a crpg fan. I remember this game got a lot of stick at launch and wanted to see what it was like. Then I came to the forum and saw that it wasn't being supported anymore. This quote made me laugh though, so not all bad!

[SHODANFreeman]

It's a shame that mindless rabid uninformed hate can end such a promising game. Almost every negative review was just screaming about the D&D ruleset and not even trying to give the game a chance to be its own game.

[Hikari.ws]

If the company went bankrupt, I doubt any legal action could be done.

What they should have done was publish the server software, preferably open source, so that anybody could host it ourselves.

It's very sad to see games being shut down and become unavailable. Guess what's the only place we can get this game now.

[Muttley]

Hikari.ws eredeti hozzászólása:

If the company went bankrupt, I doubt any legal action could be done.

What they should have done was publish the server software, preferably open source, so that anybody could host it ourselves.

It's very sad to see games being shut down and become unavailable. Guess what's the only place we can get this game now.

I remember requesting/suggesting during development that they implement direct connect to IP. Specifically in case this exact thing happened

[Hikari.ws]

That's even more sad then :/ haven't they answered u?

If we'd need to connect to their server, then it's not a simple matter of directly connecting to IP. I guess u mean somebody run the game and open connection for others to join. There must be a separate software they used to run the server, and games connected as clients.

It's better to have this software separated from the game, so we can host it on VPS. If the server is bound to the game, we're unable to do that because we'd need to run Steam client and the game with its graph on the server.

Ark devs did it pretty well, we can host server anywhere without needing game license and can develop mods to it. It's just not open source, but it's being supported. There are even companies providing hosting service so that we get everything set and can just customize our server.

[Mashuo#85]

2021 and people still talk about this game, looks like such a bad decision of shutting project down, total management failure

[Patola [Linux]]

Mashuo#85 eredeti hozzászólása:

2021 and people still talk about this game, looks like such a bad decision of shutting project down, total management failure

It was not like that. They just got so short of money that they could not pay the expensive Wizards of the Coast license to the D&D franchise. So they could not continue selling the game without that. An excellent game which was shut down due to greed of the trademark+copyrights holder.

[Hikari.ws]

That's very sad. But shoganai na, D&D is famous and sells, it's expect they're gonna charge expensive. They should want it even to make D&D be present only on high budget games and therefore hope for higher quality.

I think the issue was that they got a timed license. They should have acquired a lifetime license for this game. It's not sustainable to sell the game under lifetime license and rely on timed one to keep it on store.

It's expected that a few years after release the sales will drop, as the income. Of course they won't be able to renew the D&D license when the game isn't selling much anymore, and then they'll lose the right to keep selling it.

Many softhouses that had made D&D based games in the past had created their own system for new games. They lose sales, but they assure they don't rely on other companies.

[MehZhure]

The real problem is that they promised one thing to the early supporters...and then released something different. This caused a severe backlash and massive negative pressure from the general public. They should have just stayed focused on delivering what they promised originally...and then delved into adding new features and platforms to the offering.

Yeah, it's still a great game. But...the only people who care are those who found out about it well after it was released...thus making us immune to the overwhelming hatred and bias against it.

[Muttley]

MehZhure eredeti hozzászólása:

The real problem is that they promised one thing to the early supporters...and then released something different. This caused a severe backlash and massive negative pressure from the general public. They should have just stayed focused on delivering what they promised originally...and then delved into adding new features and platforms to the offering.

Yeah, it's still a great game. But...the only people who care are those who found out about it well after it was released...thus making us immune to the overwhelming hatred and bias against it.

I was there for it all. At times it did seem like NSpace were out of their depth and didn't really know what to anticipate in terms of what the community wanted. I remember trying to suggest(well before the closed down) that they should make the game capable of diretct connections, instead of a server for multiplayer, for is and when NSpace ever closed down, we could still play. Hell, before the EE of NWN and BG(1/2) folks were still playing, modding and hosting games well after Gamespy shut down. They had no foresight for a lot of things.

But I also thought the community was very toxic too.
They game wasn't perfect by any means but there were some of us that were happy with what we were given and saw the potential. There were DM ran campaigns in the running which were fun.

[PandoraWolfCrow]

IS there still anyone who plays on ?
Or Anyone Who Play on Solasta ?

[Patola [Linux]]

Skylae RavenWolf eredeti hozzászólása:

IS there still anyone who plays on ?
Or Anyone Who Play on Solasta ?

I do. I also have Solasta but I hadn't got time to get into it yet.

[Muttley]

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Skylae RavenWolf eredeti hozzászólása:

IS there still anyone who plays on ?
Or Anyone Who Play on Solasta ?

I do. I also have Solasta but I hadn't got time to get into it yet.

Skylae RavenWolf eredeti hozzászólása:

IS there still anyone who plays on ?
Or Anyone Who Play on Solasta ?

I have solasta but really struggling to get into it.
If a few other players have it and want to play together (UK times?) I would be keen.

[Harry]

I thought these had already been closed. And then re=opened, and now are they closing them again?

I am giving up on this game now forever. I just thank God that I never spent time making any mods, or designing extra levels for the 'DM' option.

I can sympathise with anyone here who did spend their hard earned time, and cash on this project which was doomed almost from launch!

[strangecat]

I never needed their server to play the game. You know after playing a ton of other RPGs this is still really good RPG. I never ran into any bugs even that I remember. never needed support either.