Hello Hunters!
Amazon's GameSparks will shut down its services on September 30th (this Friday). This means that every game client using GameSparks will no longer be able to connect to their service and existing client connections will be terminated. This also means that, for a short period of time, there will be no playable build of Relic Hunters Legend for the Backers and Founders to play.
As we told you before, we spent quite a few months migrating our backend from GameSparks to Gearbox’s SHiFT this year - and we are also working on an awesome build for the Friends & Family test event that will happen in a few weeks. Once we knew GameSparks would shut down soon, we had a decision to make: deliver a smaller build to fill this time gap between the shutdown and the Friends and Family event; or wait until the event because the build will be much more robust and have a lot of new features. We chose the second option. We are really close to finishing the FF build and believe me, this is the best build we have ever delivered to you folks!
Since we launched our Kickstarter, this is the first time that Backers and Founders won’t have any access to a playable build - so this is not a decision that we are making lightly.
(TL;DR) The existing build will not be playable from September 30th onwards, and a new build with SHiFT account integration will come for the "Friends & Family" test event this November.
We are super thankful for your understanding and we promise that the Friends & Family build will be worth your while! We can’t wait to share more news with you about this event. There will be more updates and opportunities coming soon. Stay tuned for more news and don’t forget to call all your loved ones to join us on this day! 🙂
If you have any questions, please write it on our Steam Forums or go to our Discord Channel to talk to us directly.
Thank you so much for all the support through this years and see you soon!
Cheers ~