![]() ![]() This allows the devs to isolate specific features for testing and feedback before combining them in the main game. Each experience is designed to test a subset of 40 different feature areas as well as hundreds of individual features planned for the game. Soulbound is planning three distinct Pre-Alpha Experiences for Chronicles of Elyria backers. The appropriately named, Pre-Alpha Experiences, will allow the developers to receive targeted feedback before a formal pre-alpha release. In a recent community blog they outlined their plans to get players into the game as soon as possible. Soulbound Studios doesn’t want to wait until their crowdfunded MMORPG, Chronicles of Elyria passes this threshold to act. ![]() Such changes are often considered too costly to make at that point. The devs continue to fix game-breaking bugs and make minor improvements, but major design overhauls are frowned upon. Those who no longer want their titles and items can sell them to people who do, those who want to trade for a new location can arrange to do so, and those who want to claim a title can buy one from another player.Once a project hits pre-alpha testing, the developers have pretty much finalized its core design. At the appropriate time – either exposition or launch – players who own the certificates will be able to remit them to Soulbound in order to gain the features described in the certificates. Taking this step allows players to trade, buy, or sell their items for cryptocurrency (or even fiat currency) in a way that is secure, safe, and auditable – so there’s never a question of ownership. These certificates will be able to be freely bought, sold, and traded on one or more of the public blockchain networks. “Beginning after the release of KoE: Domains, we’re going to be issuing digital certificates of ownership to our backers for each title in their player-inventory, as well as a wide-selection of virtual items. Soulbound says that it’ll turn to an NFT system to allow players to sell existing claims to other players using crypto. ![]() As I type this, it has the “request to post” button enabled.įinally, the company says that there’s an “increasing number of people” asking about the availability of purchase claims in the game. Either way, Soulbound says it’s going to start muting offenders on social media – and temporarily locking the COE subreddit. While no specific examples are offered, it’s not super hard to imagine that a community willing to lose money to wage a lawsuit has enough angry people to shitpost on the internet. ![]() The second section of Soulbound’s blog post addresses toxicity in its community, specifically calling out a “torrent of abuse” and “daily threats of violence” it alleges that “a small but vocal minority” is issuing. According to Soulbound, that would count “thousands” of people who’ve downloaded the KOE launcher and “hundreds” who’ve logged in to date. Well, after ample complaining about “drama” from the “players and influencers” who (rightly) reacted with “suspicion” about signing the NDA under the circumstances, Soulbound has now rewritten the NDA to attempt to “remove any ambiguity” and to “show serious about Kingdoms of Elyria’s development and desire to gain your feedback as continue to release updates.” Most notably, the second alteration explicitly adds a section about retroactivity and services unrelated to the test in spite of the blog post’s insistence that this isn’t a substantive change, it sure looks to be, and it’s not legally clear what that could mean for people who’d already signed the earlier version. While as we noted that’s not an unusual clause in NDAs and terms of service, players who are already currently engaged in a class-action lawsuit against Soulbound Studio for its past transgressions recommended not signing any such thing. It included a clause that seemingly waived the players’ rights to engage in class-action lawsuits, among other things. A week ago, Chronicles of Elyria backers sounded the alarm on a new NDA that Soulbound Studios was asking them to sign in conjunction with the Kingdoms of Elyria testing. ![]()
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