Donkey team no longer developing M:BG / OKAM

[Porthos]

Hey, chadz, I've never been your fanboy, but in these dark days I want to tell you, dude, stay strong, whatever they say - you did your best, none of us were at your position, and it's easy to criticize without knowing all the details. Please, remember that me, and, I'm sure, many other people who played this mod, are grateful for the work you've done for this community, and we still love you!

[Elio]

Maybe the project was way too huge to manage, too long to develop with less than 40k€ during 2-3 years, this was clearly too hard to live with.

I'm sad for your team and for your project your dreamed (with cmp?).

I wish you good luck to find a pleasant job, I really hope you gonna concretize something else alone or with your past crew.

I have already proposed it to you in the past, If you still need some devs support for another project, a little of time because I have a job, I willing to help you.

I'm not even sad if I lose my investment, it was the game and I deal with it.

[Laufknoten]

Hope you're working on concepts for Bannerlord: Crpg 2.0 now, Donkey Team.

[naduril]

Already uninstalled. Hardly I will ever launch okam.
Whole situation is strange and disappointing. Maybe you could have inform us at least here, not keeping silence for 5 months.

[Dupre]

Already uninstalled. Hardly I will ever launch okam.
Whole situation is strange and disappointing. Maybe you could have inform us at least here, not keeping silence for 5 months.

Probably not chadz fault. Could be a contract in the way that was preventing chadz to provide any news until the official announcement of his departure. Happens all the time.

[Elio]

Never forget

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[Gravoth_iii]

I had fun. Now make crpg great again, bring it out of beta.

[Grytviken]

So here we are, once again broke, once again at the beginning.
 
Does that stop us?
 
Nope.

Never give up ! Thanks for the hard work and fun times.

[Ikarus]

OKAM was an investment, see it as an investment.

All the experience you got from it, all the skills, all the hard times and problems you donkeys had to live through, all those things made you bigger and tougher than before. You may grief, but also cherish that experience.

This somehow reminds me of Chris Roberts and his game "Freelancer". Another man with a vision.

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"After Wing Commander 4, Chris Roberts and others left Origin to found Digital Anvil. Freelancer was their flagship product, a wildly ambitious game at the time. DA also worked on other games and the special effects for the Wing Commander movie.
After four years of development Digital Anvil ran out of money and struck a deal with Microsoft. MS bought DA and CR stepped down as the CEO. He stuck around for a while as a creative consultant but wasn't really that involved anymore.
Freelancer was finally released three years later, but with greatly reduced scope. It still sold quite well, though it couldn't live up to the previous expectations."

(https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/587st3/chris_roberts_made_freelancer/)

It feels a bit weird, but I´m happy that we finally know now what´s going on.

To every donkey: get some good rest and some good food, maybe even go to a restaurant, have a break (and maybe a KitKat[tm]) and then decide what to do next. But take that break, it´s important to stop for a while and just regenerate.

[The_Bloody_Nine]

Maybe go for a sandboxy spacegame next?

[Asheram]

This somehow reminds me of Chris Roberts and his game "Freelancer". Another man with a vision.

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(https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/587st3/chris_roberts_made_freelancer/)

That's where OKaM failed- they didn't sell enough ships err I means horses before it was released.

[Ikarus]

That's where OKaM failed- they didn't sell enough ships err I means horses before it was released.

They´re just past the "freelancer" step now, it will take some years until they reach the "star citizen" step. Then they´ll of course sell plenty of highpoly rounceys, coursers and destriers for their upcoming project "castle peasant"  jk

[mjm97]

These are grievous times indeed but just keep your head high chadz, you tried your best and no one can blame you for that.  Honestly, cRPG is just like a game in itself.  I think you should work on that and help with it because it makes so many people happy to play it and the community is eager to get back into it.

[green727]

CRPG! CRPG! I will pay a lot for CRPG to come back

But either way, I wish you all the best chadz. It's incredible what you and your team has done, and the awesome community you have built. Keep moving moving forward.

[Jambi]

Never forget

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