The devs (particularly the head u/asites) have been extremely active on reddit, interacting and communicating with the community, etc. All in all, it's a pretty awesome and stunning turnaround for this particular game, as well as the MMO genre generally. Chronicles of Elyria Overview. Chronicles of Elyria was an upcoming MMORPG in which player's characters will age and die, at which point players must make new characters within their player-run family. Players begin their character between ages 12 and 15, and will inhabit their character between 65 and 120 in-game years.
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- edited January 2019But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood, restless harbingers, knowing no other path.
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- edited February 2019The Anthem Open Demo is Live -- What Are You Waiting For? - MMORPG.com
Today's a big day for anyone looking to find out more about Anthem thanks to the arrival of the open demo. Anyone can download, install and play the demo that will be live from now through Sunday, February 3rd at 8:00 pm Pacific / 11:00 pm Eastern. Players need to be aware, according to BioWare, that servers will opening in a 'rolling capacity' so not all players may be able to enter the game immediately but will be able to as more servers are added.
- Played around for a little way. Honestly just waiting on release. A few YouTubers who are defenders of the game say the final build is like a completely different game and the hate is unwarranted. Don't know why they didn't use that build for these demo's. Either way I am just going to wait. I got premier so I can reply the Dragon Age games so I only have to wait a little less than two weeks.Currently playing: Witcher 3 (Xbox One X), TemTem
Currently Reading: Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive Book 3)
Currently Writing: Champions of Legend Book 1 (2nd Draft)
In a shocking development, it seems Chronicles of Elyria is no more. Caspian, the founder of Soulbound Studios, made an announcement titled: Chronicles of Elyria: Into the Abyss which starts by chronicling some of the progress the game had made over the years. It isn't until towards the end of the post that we learn that the entire staff has been let go and that Soulbound Studios has run out of money.
Chronicle of Elyria was first revealed on November 16, 2015 and launched a Kickstarter campaign on May 03, 2016. The Kickstarter campaign proved to be a success, raising over $1,300,000. The game continued crowdfunding off Kickstarter over the years, with over $8,000,000 raised to date. Soulbound Studios, the company behind Chronicles of Elyria, put a great deal of emphasis on the lore and roleplaying aspects of the game. Community forums and outreach early in development led to the creation of multiple guilds led by 'nobles' who had pre-purchased in-game land within the game. Unfortunately, little in the way of gameplay was ever revealed to the public during the roughly 4 years of development.
But to our great sadness.. with the failure of Settlers of Elyria, and five long months of only limited crowdfunding revenue coming in, Soulbound Studios has officially run out of money. Last night I was forced to do something I never thought I'd have to do. I closed the online store, put the SoE map back into read-only mode, and laid off all the employees.. Post scriptum system requirements.
The closest we got to seeing any gameplay for Chronicles of Elyria was a short obstacle course style demo released to Alpha testers this month.
Shankaracharya. The official post does leave the door open to some sort of future for Chronicles of Elyria, and the forums and discord servers will remain online for now. There was no mention of refunds or compensation for those who pre-purchased land and titles of nobility within Chronicles of Elyria. In fact, it seems the company deliberately removed transaction history from user's accounts!
To Soulbound's credit, they made the decision to shut down development rather raise more money from the community:
While we had no doubt that our backers would come to our aid, we're living in a volatile period in our world's history. With unprecedented changes to society caused by the Covid-19 outbreak, and with economies beginning to suffer all around the world, I made the hard decision not to try and get additional crowdfunding. I knew doing so would mean having to close the studio. But it was the right thing to do. I'd rather people spend their money on games they can play now, or better yet, food and shelter, rather than on the continuned development of Chronicles of Elyria.
EDIT: Keeping the official discord server up may have been a mistake. Customers, some of whom had 'invested' $10,000+ into their titles of nobility were furious:
Readers should be aware that they can contact their credit card issueing bank directly and request a Charge Back for undelivered services. For more info on charge backs, read this Credit Karma post.
Further Reading:Official Post
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The devs (particularly the head u/asites) have been extremely active on reddit, interacting and communicating with the community, etc. All in all, it's a pretty awesome and stunning turnaround for this particular game, as well as the MMO genre generally. Chronicles of Elyria Overview. Chronicles of Elyria was an upcoming MMORPG in which player's characters will age and die, at which point players must make new characters within their player-run family. Players begin their character between ages 12 and 15, and will inhabit their character between 65 and 120 in-game years.
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- edited January 2019But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood, restless harbingers, knowing no other path.
- First comment lol
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- edited February 2019The Anthem Open Demo is Live -- What Are You Waiting For? - MMORPG.com
Today's a big day for anyone looking to find out more about Anthem thanks to the arrival of the open demo. Anyone can download, install and play the demo that will be live from now through Sunday, February 3rd at 8:00 pm Pacific / 11:00 pm Eastern. Players need to be aware, according to BioWare, that servers will opening in a 'rolling capacity' so not all players may be able to enter the game immediately but will be able to as more servers are added.
- Played around for a little way. Honestly just waiting on release. A few YouTubers who are defenders of the game say the final build is like a completely different game and the hate is unwarranted. Don't know why they didn't use that build for these demo's. Either way I am just going to wait. I got premier so I can reply the Dragon Age games so I only have to wait a little less than two weeks.Currently playing: Witcher 3 (Xbox One X), TemTem
Currently Reading: Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive Book 3)
Currently Writing: Champions of Legend Book 1 (2nd Draft)
In a shocking development, it seems Chronicles of Elyria is no more. Caspian, the founder of Soulbound Studios, made an announcement titled: Chronicles of Elyria: Into the Abyss which starts by chronicling some of the progress the game had made over the years. It isn't until towards the end of the post that we learn that the entire staff has been let go and that Soulbound Studios has run out of money.
Chronicle of Elyria was first revealed on November 16, 2015 and launched a Kickstarter campaign on May 03, 2016. The Kickstarter campaign proved to be a success, raising over $1,300,000. The game continued crowdfunding off Kickstarter over the years, with over $8,000,000 raised to date. Soulbound Studios, the company behind Chronicles of Elyria, put a great deal of emphasis on the lore and roleplaying aspects of the game. Community forums and outreach early in development led to the creation of multiple guilds led by 'nobles' who had pre-purchased in-game land within the game. Unfortunately, little in the way of gameplay was ever revealed to the public during the roughly 4 years of development.
But to our great sadness.. with the failure of Settlers of Elyria, and five long months of only limited crowdfunding revenue coming in, Soulbound Studios has officially run out of money. Last night I was forced to do something I never thought I'd have to do. I closed the online store, put the SoE map back into read-only mode, and laid off all the employees.. Post scriptum system requirements.
The closest we got to seeing any gameplay for Chronicles of Elyria was a short obstacle course style demo released to Alpha testers this month.
Shankaracharya. The official post does leave the door open to some sort of future for Chronicles of Elyria, and the forums and discord servers will remain online for now. There was no mention of refunds or compensation for those who pre-purchased land and titles of nobility within Chronicles of Elyria. In fact, it seems the company deliberately removed transaction history from user's accounts!
To Soulbound's credit, they made the decision to shut down development rather raise more money from the community:
While we had no doubt that our backers would come to our aid, we're living in a volatile period in our world's history. With unprecedented changes to society caused by the Covid-19 outbreak, and with economies beginning to suffer all around the world, I made the hard decision not to try and get additional crowdfunding. I knew doing so would mean having to close the studio. But it was the right thing to do. I'd rather people spend their money on games they can play now, or better yet, food and shelter, rather than on the continuned development of Chronicles of Elyria.
EDIT: Keeping the official discord server up may have been a mistake. Customers, some of whom had 'invested' $10,000+ into their titles of nobility were furious:
Readers should be aware that they can contact their credit card issueing bank directly and request a Charge Back for undelivered services. For more info on charge backs, read this Credit Karma post.
Further Reading:Official Post