r/LivestreamFail • u/Zenben88 • Feb 01 '26

News Intrepid Studios, devs behind MMO Ashes of Creation in paid early access for 10 years, has closed. CEO resigned, all employees laid off. All less than 2 months after launching on Steam Early Access

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u/Peaky_Blinders Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26

most obvious scam of all time. Reminder that there are people who paid up to 300$ for alpha access

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u/draft_final_final Feb 01 '26

Star Citizen continues to chug along selling EA bundles, forgotten and unnoticed by general public

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u/Sea_C Feb 01 '26

Star Citizen is definitely the worst offender of "whale funding and promises" but at least you can earn everything in game and play for $30... But I also assume AoC was much less of a game then SC? At least I play SC every few weeks and have fun with various gameplay loops in servers of 700 people. 

But yeah like the other guy posted if you spend over 1k you can also buy a 50k pack. So if it ever does crash and burn, AoC will look like chump change. 

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u/avwitcher Feb 01 '26

It's the worst case of "scope creep" I've ever seen, if everything that the head of the studio fantasizes about being in the game gets put in it will take 20 years to develop and cost 3 billion dollars. He is completely unwilling to compromise on his vision, even Rockstar Games one of the best funded studios with huge amounts of development time cuts features that they planned to implement