Once upon a time, I played this game religiously. It was the beginning of everything I wanted, an immersive VRMMORPG with a high-tech-fantasy setting. I was there during the first week of this game's launch, quickly made my way up to level 40 (max level as of writing, if this cap ever changes in the future), and made a lot of friends during the few endgame grinds that existed during the game's launch. Since then, I was involved in multiple endgame raids & multiple tests for upcoming updates & patches.

Making an VRMMORPG, let alone a video game, is obviously not an easy task. However, it's become obvious to me now how disorganized this game and its future truly is. Various bugs, glitches, & glaring issues, many of which fundamentally damaged a user's experience & tainted the overall game, often times took ages to fix.

In addition, this game has had numerous half-baked overhauls, with almost none of them ever being finished. A new set of raids, a new tutorial, a new story mode, and an entirely new region, have all been added without being polished or concluded at all, and now they want to add a new gamemode in the hopes of getting the funds they need to continue building their MMO.

In both cases, they're screwed. You either have to call it quits due to a lack of funding, or you now have to work on two games at the same time due to the second gamemode's success. There's no way this can be made manageable by a single team of developers.

I spent a lot of time on this game, and I certainly don't regret it. There's still a lot to be seen, and a lot of potential. But, I genuinely have to wonder what's been going on behind the scenes these past two years.

Once upon a time, I played this game religiously. It was the beginning of everything I wanted, an immersive VRMMORPG with a high-tech-fantasy setting. I was there during the first week of this game's launch, quickly made my way up to level 40 (max level as of writing, if this cap ever changes in the future), and made a lot of friends during the few endgame grinds that existed during the game's launch. Since then, I was involved in multiple endgame raids & multiple tests for upcoming updates & patches. Making an VRMMORPG, let alone a video game, is obviously not an easy task. However, it's become obvious to me now how disorganized this game and its future truly is. Various bugs, glitches, & glaring issues, many of which fundamentally damaged a user's experience & tainted the overall game, often times took ages to fix. In addition, this game has had numerous half-baked overhauls, with almost none of them ever being finished. A new set of raids, a new tutorial, a new story mode, and an entirely new region, have all been added without being polished or concluded at all, and now they want to add a new gamemode in the hopes of getting the funds they need to continue building their MMO. In both cases, they're screwed. You either have to call it quits due to a lack of funding, or you now have to work on two games at the same time due to the second gamemode's success. There's no way this can be made manageable by a single team of developers. I spent a lot of time on this game, and I certainly don't regret it. There's still a lot to be seen, and a lot of potential. But, I genuinely have to wonder what's been going on behind the scenes these past two years.