The player also agreed. Despite the前払25 upfront price, Boundary shifted more than 100,000 copies in the first 24 hours, racking up thousands of "mostly positive" Steam reviews. The developers said at the time they expected early access in the last six months to the year. Just a year later, the boundaries are abandoned.
The announcement from the publisher Skystone Games, founded in 2020 by David Brevik, a longtime industry veteran who is the creator of Diablo and former president of Blizzard North, is titled "End of Service" alongside Bill Wang, in part:
"After careful consideration, Skystone decided to waive Boundary's publishing rights at the end of the 6th month.
"Over the past few months, there have been significant delays and a noticeable lack of content updates for boundaries. Despite our best efforts and support, the developers were unable to provide the updates and improvements needed to make the game thrive. This has led to growing concerns within our community, and we share your frustration.
"Unfortunately, the developers made the difficult decision to stop all services of the game, rather than continue to run the game in its current state."
The surgical scalpel, the developer, has a different view of things. In a post to the Chinese social media site BiliBili, the studio (via machine translation) said:
"The unilateral decision of skystone was negotiated with skystone as soon as we received notice to the studio and the player, but unfortunately we cannot change the unilateral decision of skystone." It was not.
"In the light of the current situation, the studio is working hard to regain the rights associated with the operation of Boundary and is making every effort to preserve Border's account data, creating as many conditions as possible for subsequent restarts."
So this is as clear as mud. Publisher Skystone says it is returning rights: Developer surgical scalpel says it is still "striving" to hold them. But then we really get to the center of the problem.
"At the same time, the studio is continually striving through negotiations and legal means for the revenue that Boundaries ever deserved," the developer says. "So far, the studio has not been able to get the right revenue back from SkyStone," he said."
A story as old as time. This developer and publisher were in a dispute over money, the developer stopped working on the game because of it (or at least not sharing progress with the publisher), and now the publisher dropped the whole deal.
Does this mean that boundaries may have a future'I wouldn't be very bullish about it, but the surgical scalpel is:"Borderline surgery may be interrupted as a result of this, but it will not stop forever. The studio is a base on the border. We hold fast, we are here, and we will not abandon the boundaries."
except for the part where the border appears to be permanently offline after 9 days.
Unsurprisingly, the news is watching game reviews - bombed by the rest of the players, many of whom are understandably struggling with announcements. Some have requested a refund and I have some sympathy, but unfortunately it is a risk to buy an early access title: not all games have a successful launch and are trying to make it even one that seems to attract a large audience. to. The developers claim that Boundary will come back, and may do so. But I will not hold your breath.
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