Fractured Online and its dev team have been bought out by a new studio – and it’s not a crypto scheme
Kickstarted MMORPG sandbox Fractured has been teasing one thing huge coming for the final month, punctuated by a promise from Dynamight’s Jacopo Gallelli earlier this week that he’d simply signed a “big deal” to bail out the floundering sandbox, which was right down to three unpaid staffers and a tiny playerbase. Well, now we all know what it’s: The studio has been acquired by a firm referred to as Happy Cauldron Games, which is led by Duncan “TaNaHaRa” Davis.
“Duncan is a passionate Fractured Online player who genuinely believes in the game’s vision and wants to enhance both its gameplay and technology,” Dynamight’s Jacopo Gallelli says. “Unlike a game publisher, he isn’t looking for quick monetization but is instead focused on long-term improvements. His passion for the game and commitment to its evolution make him the perfect fit to take Fractured Online to the next level.”
Gallelli and the opposite two Dynamight devs will be a part of the Happy Cauldron Games team, which may even decide up extra new hires, together with a group supervisor. He says that the sport will probably be ported to a new backend engine and host referred to as Coherence (similar one used by Bossa’s Lost Skies), which would require “months of hard work” from devs “rewriting a large portion of the game’s code.” But he additionally makes clear that the new monetary backing will permit the team to “revisit” most of the options the team merely hasn’t had the manpower to implement.
Gallelli does get a bit cheeky in his letter, saying “[Davis] didn’t buy Fractured Online to turn it into a crypto scam. I’m looking at you, commenters on MMO websites!” Unfortunately, that concern could be very a lot a legitimate one in our trade, particularly in mild of the truth that Gallelli had given no different data till now and the entire thing sounded too good to be true; we’ve actually seen failing Kickstarter MMOs promote out to crypto outfits, together with Legends of Aria and Crowfall. So far, nonetheless, this sale seems to be extra just like the state of affairs with Ethyrial Echoes of Yore, which was bought out by a superfan and rescued, despite the fact that it’s nonetheless small.
Cross your fingers we’re proper, and then settle in for a lengthy wait as a result of this sort of revamp is miles away.
