This gives a decent impression of what Shroud of the Avatar is like.
"We did make some reductions to get back to the size we could afford at the burn rate we had been at previously, but we hope to staff back up here if we get the marketing to take hold again," he said. Portalarium may also be bulking back up, which sounds positive. "We were more than 20 before and we're a little under now," he said, though this number doesn't include contracted help. Secondly, there were layoffs but Portalarium didn't halve the team. We'd be quite content with tens of thousands of monthly active users, and we're within shooting range of that." "We are in the many thousands but not in the many tens of thousands of monthly active users at the moment. I spoke to Richard Garriott yesterday about it.įirstly, "The majority of players don't play on Steam," he told me. If people aren't interested, how long can Shroud stick around?
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Online games (Shroud can be played offline in a separate mode, but online is the focus) are expensive to maintain and only work if people are playing them. "We have total confidence we'll go through all five episodes, come hell or high water." -Richard Garriott A reporter from MMORPG visited Shroud developer Portalarium a couple of weeks ago, coincidentally a day after the layoffs happened, and said "half their team" had been let go. And customer reviews average at 'Mixed', which means you see plenty of off-putting negative reviews.īut more worrying was news of layoffs. In the launch month of March, Shroud of the Avatar had a peak Steam concurrent player count of only 562, which is tiny - way outside of the top-100 let alone the top-10. Steam doesn't paint the whole picture, because you can buy and play the game through the official Shroud of the Avatar website, but the picture it does paint is worrying. Did you notice? I don't blame you, because it appears to have been a flop. Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, Richard Garriott's spiritual successor to the legendary online role-playing game Ultima Online - and for a long time the second-most-crowdfunded game around (with more than $10m raised) - launched a only a few months ago, 27th March 2018.
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