Is this dead? temporaly stopped? do you go to publish any update one day again?

[Nomada_Firefox]

Clearly some people have supported this game buying the early access but unfortunately, no one of the promises were accomplished. We have not seen regular news and we have not seen a new update at more of 6 months, even a simple and easy message from the creators.

What now?

[Khan]

I have wondered that myself. The total lack of communication lead me to believe that whatever happened most likely happened suddenly and Hyperdrive games has since been either unwilling or unable to commnicate - In other words, that Hyperdrive Games is/was a ghost of a dead company, most likely either due to some sort of catastrophe (e.g. if it was one or two guys running they show and they got in a car crash or something) or... well, let's face it, most of the other possibilities consistent with the available facts involve bad faith.

I did a bit of digging and found that Hyperdrive games is/was run by one Chris Bernecker. A Google search for this name turned up (among many results for other people with the same or similar names) a Facebook profile for "Chris Bernecker (Raziel Kanos), CEO/Lead Designer at Hyperdrive Games"; the name Raziel Kanos also shows up on the Hyperdrive forums as an administrator and employee of Hyperdrie Games. I did not find any contact information (e-mail, phone, etc.) or any way of getting in touch with Hyperdrive Games other than their forum (forum.hyperdrive-games.com). That forum is, to first appearance dead, and has been since June/July. There is however one recent thread in the German language "Diskussionen" section, asking (according to Google Translate) essentially the same question asked here on 17 December, with a reply from "hub2006", apparently a Hyperdrive Games employee, translated by Google as:

It lives! We work on time for the pizza on the plate and the heat from the heating : Thumbsup: But the work continues

I have seen *rare* cases where a developer isn't hard from for 6-12 months and then suddenly wakes up again (*cough* Legends of Dawn *cough*) but it doesn't happen often. Likewise this whole "Emergency Support Command" business (see https://www.facebook.com/notes/hyperdrive-games/hilfe-f%C3%BCr-fl%C3%BCchtlinge-einmal-anders-kickstarterkampagne-f%C3%BCr-emergeny-support-com/913484792050509?_fb_noscript=1, and http://esc.hyperdrive-games.de/) seems just a little suspicious given the Vol'Talkes situation.

If nothing else, this company does a TERRIBLE job of communicating with their customers - how hard is it to have someone update the web page or post on a forum once every 2-3 weeks?

[luckz]

They posted all sorts of comments from small-time politicians praising their charitable Kickstarter, where "100% of the profits" are donated, while it's actually 50% in their press release.
Very, very fishy.

[Mallear]

Their sites are as good as dead and their facebook page lacks updates, too.... Forum seems closed... looks like their focus is on another game about the refugee crisis, noted in one of the links Khan gave. Although i have to say that everything about it looks like a concept at most... I was very interested in Vol'Talkes but it seems that most Helms abandoned ship here :(

they gave an interview with a german gaming youtube channel about the refugee-game:
http://game-alert.de/2015/wie-man-die-fluechtlingsdebatte-auf-games-uebertragen-kann/

and finally: their facebook page lists a phone number... https://www.facebook.com/HyperDriveGames/?fref=nf
maybe someone could call and politely ask about Vol'Talkes?

EDIT: official contact mail of one of the devs: http://www.mynewsdesk.com/de/contact_people/chris-bernecker-lead-gamedesigner-project-lead-57238

[Nomada_Firefox]

Dead.

[luckz]

http://steamcommunity.com/id/RazielKanos exists
https://twitter.com/razielkanos is active
http://www.raziel-kanos.com/ is too (lol)

[Mallear]

luckz,
no one doubted that raziel stopped existing or was deleted from the whole internet :D
but on the sites you listed,messages about game development ceased after the time the updates here vanished.....

so yeah i guess they have given up the project. Let's simply hope i'm wrong or that the devs decide to announce anything... i seriously hope this is not another "scam" (no one is legally forced to complete an early acess game i think, but i do think that you have an obligation to your buyers)

I will however hug someone if this project rises like the phoenix from the ashes :)

[luckz]

Originally posted by Dr. Hal Emmerich:

no one is legally forced to complete an early acess game i think, but i do think that you have an obligation to your buyers

This game was / is sold with the promise of "Steam Achievements"; certainly those are legally relevant to at least get the money back.

[Nomada_Firefox]

Originally posted by luckz:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/RazielKanos exists
https://twitter.com/razielkanos is active
http://www.raziel-kanos.com/ is too (lol)

You exist if you answer to the people. From the first moment that you do not answer and ignore everything......you do not exist, at least not as the developer from a game.

For the record, I do not claim a money back. Just a finish from the work and even I have offered several times my free help with this proyect.

[ElimRawne]

Guys, Raziel Kanos is member or formally Member of a Big Moddinggroup For SW:EaW and he is known for working veryyyyyyy slow, iam waiting to for the game but, dont be angry i think it will come sooner or later...

[Nomada_Firefox]

One thing is be slow and other is be out the EAW modding community and everything. Please continue dreaming. I do not wait this game, I do not need it. I have found in Polaris Sector a game where creators are making the game as I liked and clearly they support mods a lot more.

[starkiller]

i talked to Raziel Kanos. The game is not stopped! but he said, he isnt working at the moment on the game. there were more costs then he thought and the money is all used. he tries to collect more money, to finish the product...

i dont know the truth, but maybe you can send him an invite and ask him.

[Nomada_Firefox]

From my point of view, he could end the game many time ago. The point from the money is not a good point. I offered my help and I had worked free of charge. I know how other people had made the same.

At the end, for me the game is not stopped, it is dead.

[BlackSpawn]

Originally posted by Starkiller:

i talked to Raziel Kanos. The game is not stopped! but he said, he isnt working at the moment on the game. there were more costs then he thought and the money is all used. he tries to collect more money, to finish the product...

i dont know the truth, but maybe you can send him an invite and ask him.

Do you have evidence of this conversation?
Or any articles or threads in which this is mentioned by the actual developer?
Thanks.

[BlackSpawn]

Originally posted by luckz:

They posted all sorts of comments from small-time politicians praising their charitable Kickstarter, where "100% of the profits" are donated, while it's actually 50% in their press release.
Very, very fishy.

Did that Kickstarter ever launch?
Can you quote the link/article where they stated that 100% of profits would be donated?
Thanks.

[Nomada_Firefox]

I would not think too much about Vol'takes. When anybody start a proyect like this and he has not published a single answer around the world, it is clearly dead.

Even the SMG forum is dead........end story.