okay so do we KNOW if it will release next year?

[PhoenixAscended]

these devs are really inconsistent but I did notice more community activity and information being dropped so I'm curious what we know so far

[Suzaku]

Unless one of us is a time traveler, there is no knowing. There are only expectations and assumptions.

[PhoenixAscended]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

Unless one of us is a time traveler, there is no knowing. There are only expectations and assumptions.

is there any reason stemming from information the developers have given us this year to expect it to have a higher chance of releasing in 2025?

[Suzaku]

All we know is that the next biome is the Deep North, and will be considered the 1.0 release of the game. Based on how long the biomes take to be made, and that Ashlands was released 7 months ago, it seems reasonable, though not guaranteed, to expect the final biome to land somewhere in 2025.

[Joe Coffee]

^^ the developers said "when it's done, it's done", paraphrasing. Their words, not mine.\
Merry Christmas :)

[Bored Peon]

I hope it becomes the next Star Citizen. (sounds wtf, but hear me out)

This comes from playing other Early Access games. The game sits in EA for a couple years and you rack up hundreds or thousands of hours play time. Yet the moment it becomes 1.0 you stop playing because there is no new content and the game stops getting new content.

I mean seriously, playing now and has plenty of content, why does it matter if it aint 1.0 ?
Not much different than binge watching a series then once the series finale is seen then what?

[PhoenixAscended]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

I hope it becomes the next Star Citizen. (sounds wtf, but hear me out)

This comes from playing other Early Access games. The game sits in EA for a couple years and you rack up hundreds or thousands of hours play time. Yet the moment it becomes 1.0 you stop playing because there is no new content and the game stops getting new content.

I mean seriously, playing now and has plenty of content, why does it matter if it aint 1.0 ?
Not much different than binge watching a series then once the series finale is seen then what?

because my group wants to play a game with a proper ending for us personally

[Lorska]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

I mean seriously, playing now and has plenty of content, why does it matter if it aint 1.0 ?
Not much different than binge watching a series then once the series finale is seen then what?

You can move on.
This isn't some game that will introduce a hundred new mechanics down the line and thrive as an endless life service game.
Sure you can just replay the same stuff over and over again but slightly different over a decade... But you see absolutely no reason to play a finished game? Really?

Are you actually saying that watching a series one episode a week with seasonal breaks in the middle is superior to watching it all once it's finished? I'd argue there's a few couple million streaming service users that would politely disagree lol

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Lorska:

But you see absolutely no reason to play a finished game? Really?l

That is not what I said, I said most games I own after leaving EA they do not get played as much. Usually because there is no new content to draw you back to it.

Originally posted by Lorska:

Are you actually saying that watching a series one episode a week with seasonal breaks in the middle is superior to watching it all once it's finished?

I said series finale. Yet in order to write your false argumentative narrative against my opinion you moved the goal posts.

Go write your argumentative false narratives with someone else. Blocked.

[Lorska]

I'd like to clear up a few points.
1.0 does NOT mean no new content. That maybe was the case 20 years ago, but not anymore.

You're also working off correlation not causation. As a matter of fact you can't just ignore that you played a game a ton before and just blame it all on a 1.0 release.
I've had myself games that I stopped playing shortly after it reached 1.0 but not because it was suddenly finished but because I already worked towards finishing it.
If I didn't play those before release I would still have invested the time to get to that point.

I'm sorry that you took my points as your opinion being wrong, I only meant to illustrate that generally the consensus is the reverse and people like things to be actually finished instead of being drip-fed tiny specks of content over a decade.

In valheim in particular it's been actually kinda messy and some bugs and gameplay oversights are still not fixed since the bog witch update came out. So the whole "new content so you have more to do" also comes with the flip side of having to deal with bad/incomplete/buggy (parts of) updates.

[Rungar]

i imagine it will take longer because they didnt really have much success with the hildir or ashlands updates. I imagine both of these and maybe even mistlands will be revamped slightly. Im guessing 2026. There's really no hurry for them. Its unlikely the will make another game so ...its really in their interest to evaluate things they did wrong and things that didnt work and revamp those parts. Add a few things here and there to flesh it out. It is one of the greatest games of all time. It deserves that at least.

[rexpiscator]

At about 1000 hrs of gameplay on any given title; I pretty much move on to another game/experience. I'm sitting at 1200 hrs and that's about all for me. I would wonder the metrics on how many players continue a RC1 EA title after release....I know for myself, it does not happen, most of my gameplay is in the EA paradigm....not after release is finally achieved for EA titles I've invested my interest in.

By dragging the release out, Devs burn out the player base on the title, imho. Valheim did it for me, burnt out by the time Ashlands arrives

Grounded did it the best I've seen; EA for only a year, then they finished the work....quite well, too.

[Fuhrer]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

I hope it becomes the next Star Citizen. (sounds wtf, but hear me out)

This comes from playing other Early Access games. The game sits in EA for a couple years and you rack up hundreds or thousands of hours play time. Yet the moment it becomes 1.0 you stop playing because there is no new content and the game stops getting new content.

I mean seriously, playing now and has plenty of content, why does it matter if it aint 1.0 ?
Not much different than binge watching a series then once the series finale is seen then what?

Absolutely rancid take.

I also don't see why whether or not they call it 1.0 would affect how neurodivergent you may or may not be. You're either happy to do the same thing for 1000 hours or you're not.

[BingusDingus]

Depends exactly what they hope to bundle with Deep North, if they intend to simply release Deep North without moving to 1.0 then it'll likely come out late next year, however if they intend to push a full 1.0 release with many of the features, improvements and content that they've teased then I doubt we'll see a release until mid 2026 at the soonest.

They have been quoted saying a few years ago that they still intend to include the ocean update in the full release, they've also hinted at a possible balance pass and adding new items across the entirety of the game.

This could change however if they go back on what they said originally about not releasing any content post 1.0 and instead decide to list Deep North as 1.0 then add the content after, of course they could scrap their previous plans entirely and just push Deep North.

[CryonicSuspension]

Late 2025. The devs have a Youtube channel where they talk about it. It's not worth watching the videos, I just play them in the background ( like a podcast ), while playing Valheim. Let's face it, spending hours mining for copper is boring.