![]() ![]() Kerr was apparently a fan and opinionated about what needed changing, and Kerr and Coleman became friends. The solution came from Monty Kerr and his game company Monumental. Big competitors, lack of advertising funds, lots of market fatigue, and of course too much work to fix or improve the game and not enough people to do it." By the time September hit, the numbers had fallen dramatically. Not great, but not bad – enough to sustain the game's ongoing operations. Launch numbers seemed great! August numbers were… good. Here's some of what J Todd Coleman wrote at the time: Watch on YouTube The launch trailer for Crowfall.Ĭrowfall was sold to Monumental six months after release, and it was at that point that J Todd Coleman, the director of the game - and one of the two people who birthed the idea and successfully crowdfunded it - stepped away. There are some other particulars you can read on the Crowfall website. The service will go dark from 22nd November (11am CST). We have yet to determine what that looks like, but we are investing in and rethinking every part of the game - from the core technology and tools to art, design, and gameplay. " We're going to use this time to map out the future of the game. In order to refocus our efforts from live operations to development, we have decided to take the Crowfall live service offline for the time being. One of the biggest challenges has been the sheer amount of development effort required to build new campaigns and keep the game running daily. The announcement read: "Over the past few months, we've been evaluating the current state of Crowfall. ![]() In this article, I talk to Monumental about the decision and what it could mean. I cannot ever remember an MMO ever doing something similar. Crowfall has struggled since launch, and it was sold to Monumental in December 2021 partly because of this - because it needed significant change. Game operator Monumental said this was because it didn't have the headspace or resources to rethink the game while it was running it, and suggested Crowfall could return looking quite different indeed. There's no word on how long this will take, only that "nothing is off the table" in terms of what potentially may change. Earlier this week we heard the unusual news that player-versus-player MMO Crowfall, which launched in the summer of 2021, will be taken offline and taken back to the drawing board, where it will be rethought. ![]()
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