Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP’s long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older games long past their fundraising. We are watching three brand-new Kickstarters this round!
Kickstarted solarpunk MMO Loftia was already charming AF, but it added to its impressive appeal this week by telling players that game preservation motives have ensured it’s planning ahead: Should the game reach an end-of-life situation, Qloud Games has provisions to pass as much of the game on to the players as possible. “A plan like this requires extra work,” the devs wrote. “It means ensuring we have a ‘post-shutdown’ life in mind for systems, careful documentation, and maybe even having to spend the last weeks of our studio working on preservation. But for us, the cost is more than worth it.”
And Lionhearts, the medieval strategy MMO, fully funded on Kickstarter yesterday, pulling in over $160,000 from folks who apparently think it’s just fine to buy a video game duchy with real money.
Meanwhile,we’re keeping an eye on the Eldramoor Kickstarter that’s due to conclude – successfully – next week, we expressed our frustrations with throwback MMOs like Pantheon and Monsters & Memories, and we got a hard date for the launch of Ship of Heroes: August!
Read on for more on what’s been up with MMO crowdfunding over the last few weeks, plus our roundup of all the crowdfunded MMOs we’re following!
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Recent MMO crowdfunding news
Choose My Adventure: Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s old school design choices rear their head
MMO Hype Train: Dipping into Monsters & Memories’ public alpha
City of Heroes spiritual successor Ship of Heroes is finally launching in August
Elite Dangerous confirms a higher cash shop cost for its upcoming Clipper Mk2 and other large ships
Star Citizen kicks off a new event, adds a new ship, and applies flight model tweaks in alpha 4.2.1
Stars Reach updates its infrastructure and networking, shows off an in-progress graphics update
Star Citizen highlights the new Meteor combat ship arriving in alpha 4.2.1
Shroud of the Avatar announces plans for a new quarterly release cadence for its major updates
BitCraft dishes out a small patch of adjustments and fixes as it counts concurrency around 3K players
Ashes of Creation preps PTR for July 1 alpha phase, discusses new zone and new races
Star Citizen dishes out permabans for cheaters and promises tighter restrictions
Bohemia’s co-op survivalbox Everwind (fka SkyVerse) successfully funded on Kickstarter with $53K
Star Citizen players try to call attention to reportedly widespread duping and cheating issues
MMORPG Loftia hasn’t even launched and its devs already have a theoretical end-of-life preservation plan
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen takes a victory lap over its ‘milestone’ Ashbreathers updates
Choose My Adventure: Putting together a sample platter of Pantheon’s classes
Star Citizen preps new gear and PvE co-op zones as it launches its latest free-fly event
City of Titans marks progress on Unreal Engine 5.6 upgrade and toward online play
VR MMO Ilysia tests three new zones, adds cosmetics library
Pantheon’s next Ashbreathers patch brings a multi-group boss fight and widening of stat changes July 16
The Stream Team: Anything goes in Elite Dangerous
Medieval strategy MMO Lionhearts meets its $100K crowdfunding ask, stumps for its $200K pre-alpha milestone
Monsters and Memories invites everyone to next week’s community alpha test
The Stream Team: Enjoying some lazy laser mining together in Elite Dangerous
Choose My Adventure: Defending our backyard in Elite Dangerous for powerplay profits
The Stream Team: Turning internet spaceships into profitable explosions in Elite Dangerous
Monsters & Memories recaps progress while planning for its next playtest in late July
Stars Reach’s latest patch includes ‘extensive’ network upgrades, better sunrises, and slicker sliding