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Comment on Project Rebearth (in development), an MMO city-builder, with a top-down map style view, where players repopulate a 1:1 replica of Earth, releases a demo on Steam.

ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

In case you care about the things I care about:

What is the end-of-life plan?

Project Rebearth let’s you play on a 1 to 1 replica of planet earth. that is only possible when data gets streamed over the internet, even in a single player mode. This also means that servers need to be maintained, which costs money. I cannot maintain these services until the end of time but since you are buying the game, you have the right to an end-of-life plan so you know what you’re getting into. I have the ambition to keep the official game server live for 3 years. this is roughly up until the year 2029. Depending on the active player base at that time, this may be extended. I plan to allow for custom game servers about a year after the game release. When the official server terminates, you will still be able to connect to full-featured community servers with the game you bought and paid for.

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Dionysus@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Plan to != Commits to

I’ll wait until the self server software is released

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Agent_Karyo@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I wonder if it would be possible to make a single-player release for EOL.

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- ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The single player release at EOL sounds like spinning up your own local server and connecting to it.
  
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  - joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This is basically how Minecraft works since 1.3.
    
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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ll buy it just to support this ideologically. The graphics look like one of those old TTRPG map maker programs, which I love.

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- Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, it looks like a multiplayer Dungeon Draft, which is awesome. I hope people don’t just meticulously recreate major cities, but rather use the opportunity to reimagine what our settlements could look like.
  
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- ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I applaud the dev for having this plan, but talk is cheap, and my interest in this game can’t start until the private server is available. I get that you want people to congregate in the official server, but they’ll do that naturally anyway.
  
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