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Tech Forum / Is it time to accept the inevitable?
« on: April 04, 2015, 01:05:26 pm »
Well all it's a full month since AW servers were ready to be shut down and I made the first significant donation to keep the servers running. I've made the second significant donation end of March to keep the servers up for April. The first month gave me the opportunity to monitor the reaction of players and to have some discussions with Anti.
The more time passes the more I feel it's time to just let AW die. The thought that so many of you will lose the skills and items that you've spent so much time and in some cases money accumulating fills me with sadness. Having said that if the game had 20 developers tomorrow working on it I still feel the game would die a death. Over the years the core things that made people want to invest time and money have been systematically removed and seem as though they will never return.
I had made a proposal to Anti for the game rights that has been refused (I can understand the reasoning as there were serious caveats in there to protect my investment proposal). Therefore i'm seriously considering whether to continue to support the servers and use the money along with the money I was willing to invest here in starting up my own game instead.
In the past month I have managed to get a server setup and the fundamentals in Unreal Engine 4 which had I secured the rights to AW I would have used as the building blocks to build Afterworld from the ground up in UE4.
As I said i'm now considering pouring my attentions and money into this and give in to the inevitable that Afterworld is beyond saving.
Thoughts?
The more time passes the more I feel it's time to just let AW die. The thought that so many of you will lose the skills and items that you've spent so much time and in some cases money accumulating fills me with sadness. Having said that if the game had 20 developers tomorrow working on it I still feel the game would die a death. Over the years the core things that made people want to invest time and money have been systematically removed and seem as though they will never return.
I had made a proposal to Anti for the game rights that has been refused (I can understand the reasoning as there were serious caveats in there to protect my investment proposal). Therefore i'm seriously considering whether to continue to support the servers and use the money along with the money I was willing to invest here in starting up my own game instead.
In the past month I have managed to get a server setup and the fundamentals in Unreal Engine 4 which had I secured the rights to AW I would have used as the building blocks to build Afterworld from the ground up in UE4.
As I said i'm now considering pouring my attentions and money into this and give in to the inevitable that Afterworld is beyond saving.
Thoughts?
