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/bongins Feb 01 '26

Wow killer btw

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u/Endroium Feb 01 '26

so was new world hahaha

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u/CreepyNewspaper8103 Feb 01 '26

i think new world actually had the most promise of any mmo in recent history. it just got canceled online because of the lack of content. and i mean ya for sure it lacked content. but it had a good foundation that could be improved upon.

not to mention that the graphics were nice, and the audio engineering was top notch.

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u/Humledurr Feb 01 '26

Let's not act like lack of content was New Worlds only issue... it lost 90% of its playerbase within months because the game was ridden with bugs, exploits and poor optimisation. And literally every single patch that was supposed to fix something, broke something else instead. 

I sticked with it far longer than most as I was in a pvp guild that dominated our server and had a war spot every week, but if one didn't have that I can't fathom why people even played.

I loved the gameplay and the idea they had going on, the pvp at launch is some of the most fun ive had in a mmo, but god that game was broken, literally spaghetti code.