Gameforge to Publish GoE Starting Sep 1st Minus Any Insel Games Involvement - Guardians of Ember - M

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Gameforge to Publish GoE Starting Sep 1st Minus Any Insel Games Involvement - Guardians of Ember - MMORPG.com

Guardians of Ember News - According to a new post on the MMORewards.com site, Guardians of Ember will be published by Gameforge beginning on September 1st without any involvement from Insel Games, the publisher that was booted from Steam for review manipulation. Gameforge will be taking over publication duties for both North America and Europe, with news about account and game data migration set to be announced soon.

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Albatroes

Welp, RIP. Gameforge, where games go to die.

DAOWAce

Was a dead game anyway.

Lavec

"none of the previous Product or Community Managers will no longer be involved from September 1 2018". Hmmmm. Unless the are all no longer involved, or none still involved, that statement says nothing.

ceh430

Gameforge... they are like Kenshiro

they can kill already dead games :P

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Albatroes

Wasn't the game originally running on a skeleton crew anyway? Sounds to me the old team was just cashing out cause the numbers weren't good.

Xingbairong

This was the game that the lead guy was telling his employees to leave fake reviews on steam right?

Btw honestly the game have potential, but it will need at least another 2-3 years of development(content) before it can stand a chance of surviving. With games like PoE and D4(?:D) and even Grim Dawn I don't see it being a competitor in any way in it's current state.

Asheram

Every time I see thread on this game I mistakenly think Embers of Caerus.

seratin

Are they going to remove the dungeon keys system, because if not "same stuff, different dev".

Kataal

Xingbairong said:

This was the game that the lead guy was telling his employees to leave fake reviews on steam right?



Btw honestly the game have potential, but it will need at least another 2-3 years of development(content) before it can stand a chance of surviving. With games like PoE and D4(?:D) and even Grim Dawn I don't see it being a competitor in any way in it's current state.

It is the same publisher (Insel Games), but the game they had the review scandal with was Wild Buster. This game definitely has potential, and though I'm weary of Gameforge, I'm hoping their resources will help it find a wider audience. Still curious if it will remain b2p or get a free trial/go f2p.

Truvidien88

Doesn't sound like it's in good shape. Been wanting to give this game a try..

timeraider

Torval said:

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Wouldnt blame this on Valve.
Nothing wrong with encouraging owners of the game to leave reviews regardless of employee or not.
HOWEVER... youre twisting the story because he did alot more than that. He actively told people that he would reimburse all employee's buying the game and leaving reviews.
Thats bribing and deserves a capital offense from Valve.
If you do that in any company with any product, you have a lawsuit on your ass.

Sabrac

timeraider said:

Torval said:

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Wouldnt blame this on Valve.

Nothing wrong with encouraging owners of the game to leave reviews regardless of employee or not.

HOWEVER... youre twisting the story because he did alot more than that. He actively told people that he would reimburse all employee's buying the game and leaving reviews.

Thats bribing and deserves a capital offense from Valve.

If you do that in any company with any product, you have a lawsuit on your ass.

Not only that, but he was basically threatening his employees to leave those positive reviews since there was some of his employees that didn't want to do that scummy thing, at the end an anonymous employee ended tiping valve on the situation and they took action and removed their games (which is to be expected).

What @Torval said about the edgy and harsh reviews while i agree that sometimes people can be childish and unfair leaving reviews, i still like the review system of steam since most of the time can give a decent insight on a game before you buy it, (i don't think a few bad apples should spoil the whole barrel).

Cyber_wasteland

Game could have been good but was complete crap even with out the crappy company doing some shady shit on the side. I wanted to like this one, but the stats were wonky nothing seemed to be right, the gameplay was crap.

Maybe Game Forge will work on it and clean up the issues.....but doubt it.

rojoArcueid

The outcome of this data migration...


The Good: glad I haven't bought the game

The Bad: sad I didn't get to play this game

The Ugly: It's Gameforge!