Submitted 20 hours ago by popcar2@piefed.ca to games@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/hytale/p/450908/hytale-is-out-now-in-early-access
Note: Not my screenshot
It’s been over 7 years since the game was announced, and after being cancelled by Riot and bought back by the original devs, against all odds it is FINALLY playable!
The game was supposed to come out in an hour but it seems the devs released it early. I’ll wait and see some early gameplay but it looks like I might buy it on launch day. Feels surreal that the wait is finally over.
I’ve been looking at it from afar and it’s nice to see some people trying to innovate upon the Minecraft formula ; though in this case I think the Hypixel people and I enjoy different things about Minecraft.
Not on steam, not on my radar.
Not on any other platform than W11
I love steam as much as the next guy but monopolies are bad and we should support other businesses when we can. When Gabe dies who knows what happens to all the steam games you “own”
My grocery store is a monopoly, the products in it aren’t.
I don’t want to shop at 1000 different stores that will all sell my information to brokers. If you do, that’s fine, shopping around gets cheaper prices but you pay with your time.
I’ll keep shopping at the one store.
Your loss.
Back in my day games were finished before they were released.
A little ironic to post this on a game inspired by Minecraft, the most prolific example of an early access model working out.
But Minecraft - even in the Beta days - worked as a complete game. They have been improving (depending on how you like the changes) on it since, but it wasn’t ever filled with literal work in progress signs like Hytale is…
They still haven’t delivered on the finite water promise.
From what I’ve gleaned from the history of this project, the original creator of the game sold the IP to a publisher in order to secure money and resources for further development, where they promptly started interfering with development to the point that it was delayed and ultimately cancelled.
The creator bought the rights back from them and released it into Early Access so that they can fund its development.
I personally have nothing against early access games after playing other EA games like Factorio, Rimworld, and Satisfactory that were known for being incredible experiences long before they launched into 1.0.
This is one of the few times I’m ok with a game releasing early. It was in Dev hell for a long ass time only to get nearly canned until it was reacquired. If it can get the support it needs to achieve the dev’s vision, I’m ok with that.
And they have made it extremely clear what kind of state the game is in.
Just bought it without any problems and fired it up. I like that two-factor authentication is the default. The game runs quiet well on my Linux Mint desktop, with really no problems at all so far. Of course, this is Early Access, so I’m sure there will be plenty of bugs here and there. But so far, it’s a good experience and I’m having fun with it! :)
Good to know it works well in Linux! I was afraid after Riot acquired the game that it wouldnt get a native Linux port or have extra hoops to run through Proton.
Riot actually cancelled this game and then the original creator bought back the rights, so Riot isn’t even involved anymore. Which is good news in my books.
Flatpak for the win. :)
I’m excited, I don’t know a lot about it but I think the voxel survival genre has a lot of room for new ideas. Let’s see if they hit any good ones!
I wouldn’t be excited. The reason Hytale exists in the first place is because Mojang blocked server microtransactions which effectively killed the income of the Hypixel server. They’re also planning paid mods, paid cosmetics and minigame MTX (whatever the fuck that means). I think there’s a legitimate concern that the game is going to end up heavily monetized and it’s going to turn into a meta-game platform like Roblox.
But if your want to be excited about Minecraft “clones” there are other choices. If you’re looking for something more action related there’s Allumeria which is aiming to be like a 3D Terraria. It’s not out yet but there’s early access planned for 2026. And if you’re looking for more a more survival experience there’s Vintage Story. I will 100% recommend Vintage Story to anyone wanting an actual survival game and not just survival elements that turn into mindless busywork 1 hour into the game. There’s so much work that goes into almost everything you do in Vintage Story but you’ll feel so rewarded for putting in the effort. You can spend a whole year in game and every in game day have a goal for the day.
I fear that early access will kill this. Sure it will provide some money that might pay for the rest of the development, but streamers will play it now - der that it is literally work in progress in vast parts and maybe take another look once it finally releases, but the hype will be gone at the release.
For this game it was either this or the game never released at all though
I might play this game, but only months or even year later. Its too hyped right now, and i want to see if it will actually be good after some time.
What kind of game is it? Is it like Minecraft/roblox as the screenshot suggests?
I would guess it‘s probably closer to Roblox or modern Minecraft. Hypixel started the project to have a constant money flow so expect monetization left and right.
It’s basically Minecraft but with a bigger focus on RPG elements, exploration, and combat. It’s a safe bet that if you like MC you’ll enjoy this.
If they fixed their damn payment processor I’d buy it. I’ve tried several methods and they all fail.
Tebux or whatever the fuck it’s called charged me FIVE TIMES before letting the payment through, I’ve filed a complaint with them because holy scam, but I’m hoping the charges will just go away, since they’re still pending
Worked for me just now.
Hasn’t the game been in “early access” for like a decade? I heard that the dev went AWOL for years and now just decided to come back. I think I’m gonna pass on this one, been burned on too many times buying games for their “potential”.
No, this is the first time it has been available to the public. It was acquired by Riot Games several years into development, they decided to scrap most of the original work and start over in a new game engine, work on the new engine severely delayed reimplementation of previously completed features, which kept pushing the release timeline back, and eventually Riot canned the project.
Last year the original founder purchased the rights to the game from Riot, they went back to the original engine, and they got a working early access build out in like six months.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 54 minutes ago
After so many years of development drama and criticism surrounding Hypixel themselves even before they actively worked on this… I think I‘m good. Playable doesn‘t mean you will get the full experience for s one time payment. Hypixel love subscription models.