We are reverting to our full sandbox version of the engine (Big World), what does this mean? I will try to keep it short.

So here is a little history lesson of how we ended up here....

History

• We started development in HE (A long time ago)
• We realized as great as HE was, it did not fall in lines with the goals we had so we moved to Big World
• We spent a long time developing and then War Gaming purchased BW and the future became unclear (There are a lot of reasons and history here to which we will not go into)
• We lost a tonne of resources and we were left with a skeleton team and we needed a smaller scope and a more indie main stream engine
• We decided to map the PVP battleground idea and then with funding move to the PVP battleground to a MMO direction slowly
• We were wrong…
• We jumped to trying to make a the MMO with Unreal 4 to try to fix this and we have had some reasonable success but it will take alot more work.
• We have been and still are working with investors for funding but we have realized we can not wait and be dependent on the outcome as to properly make UE4 a MMO engine will require more resources then we have and more time.
• So our timelines have been slow and we have been working hard to try to bring the MMO as fast as we can on a limited budget (To be frank, we have barely sold any copies because we froze all our promo when we realized we were wrong.)

That you should catch up in point form, I have excluded all the wasted money and drama and pain and constant fight up hill.

We have our Big world MMO still which still exists and has the following complete:

• Player housing (Fully working)
• Loot
• The full world of Malu (Swamps / Wastes / Plains / Deep Forests / Etc)
• All creature’s in
• Progression
• Etc lots more

When is this happening

• We are in the process of configuring the engine for steam, this should be live to people who purchased early access with a week or two, no longer.
• There OSX and Linux versions are a little far off in the future, if you purchased early and can not refund, we will setup a section in members only in the next couple of days and make sure to make it right.
• For the people who purchased this up to this announcement (We have a Top Down Mobile action game in development that they will receive for free)

We are going to update it with our new art but let’s be honest we are choosing to go with game play over graphics, so people may not be happy but the game will be a lot closer and a lot more depth right away to enjoy. We will be updating the graphics but we will be limited.

So,

• The Steam store page will be update this week to reflect the engine change.
• Once things are stable with the new engine, we will change our pricing model as we are going to go F2P, (Don't worry no pay to win)
• Proper forums will be popping back up again very soon as well
• We are also have a mobile game (Top down action) in the pipeline that will be available to all who purchased early access (More details coming in the next month or two)

The situation is very fluid and this only a portion of the news.

So again, hopefully if things go right by Friday 18th, 2015 you will be back in Malu, The full world of Malu.

if you have questions, feel free to ask on the discussion group, we may be slow to respond as we are working almost 20 hours a day right now.

Cheers,
Tk