In 2021, at the height of the world’s collective blockchain madness, video game called Untamed Island—Pokémon, But with the cipher stuff—Raised over $500,000 on KickstarterA year later, the game is practically dead and broken to the point where you can’t even refund backers.
of Posting to your game’s Steam pagethe developer said, “We should pause development on Untamed Isles and put the project on hold.”
There were a myriad of factors leading up to this moment, but the bottom line is that we can’t financially keep up with the demands of what we’re trying to do.
Untamed Isles is a very ambitious title, an open-world monster-catching MMORPG. To work on this project, we enlisted his 70+ staff members and he worked relentlessly for over two years to build the game we all dreamed of. The truth is that development costs were high and there have been many challenges leading up to this moment. We have exhausted our financial resources and are unable to continue development at this time.
When they say “the economic climate has changed dramatically” they say “The ass has fallen off the crypto marketwe bet your money”:
We fell in love with the crypto market and expanded rapidly on the back of positive interest. The runway was too short and exposed too much when the crash happened. Games are still Game First and Crypto is designed Second, but Crypto Funds became and still are essential in getting us to release. Unlike, we actually have a great game design that can stand on its own. However, until the crypto situation is resolved (and I’m sure it will be at some stage), development on this project will need to be put on hold.
And that ass is falling far away The developer says in another post “We are not in a position to refund our first backers as our cash reserves are empty.
This may be part of the story where I say everyone who supports this game got their due, but really untamed island The crypto element is optional, and it’s clear from backer feedback under the ‘suspension’ announcement on Kickstarter that many are only interested in the game itself, not the speculative element.
untamed island “Break” is especially strange. it was only two weeks ago The team has confirmed a launch date of October 6, 2022, and one of its key promises at the time of the Kickstarter campaign is, “We are lucky to have the funding to safely deliver our core features and gameplay. ” was that.
