Greed Monger
Setting: Fantasy / MMORPG | Developer: Greed Monger | Platform: PC | Status: Cancelled | Campaign Year: 2012 | Funds raised on Kickstarter: $90,132 | Backers: 667
Here is another Kickstarter MMORPG with a sandbox focus that aimed to walk in the footsteps of Ultima Online – featuring non-instanced housing, an immense focus on crafting, open PvP, and more.
Until the final cancellation of development in 2016, there were reports of fleeing developers who did not believe in the project, early developer cancellations, a comeback, and ultimately the end again. In a final post on Kickstarter, the head of the project, Jason M. Appleton, stated that it simply had been impossible to manage this project with less than $100,000.
There, the developer also explained that he planned to pay some form of compensation to as many backers as possible, in the form of a “WAVES Wallet”. Whether this plan succeeded is something we unfortunately could not find out.
City of Titans
Setting: Superheroes / MMORPG | Developer: Missing Worlds Media | Platform: PC | Status: Still in development, Alpha | Campaign Year: 2013 | Funds raised on Kickstarter: $678,189 | Backers: 5,003
The developers of “The Phoenix Project – City of Titans” announced the project as a spiritual successor to City of Heroes by Cryptic Studios and were able to raise a good amount of money with the promise of a new superhero MMORPG.
The bad news: 12 years later there is still no finished game. The good news: The developers provide fairly regular updates on the development of the MMORPG, on cityoftitans.com as well as on the YouTube channel of the developer. Below you can see a roundup video for 2024:
According to the latest quarterly update, work is currently underway on the update for Unreal Engine 5.5. After that, they plan to address things like NPC AI, improved movement and combat animations for all characters, as well as optimized graphics and performance. Additionally, they want to expand the currently very limited server capacities so that more players can move through the world.
Those who continue to support the project for $50 or more have had access to the launcher for PC or Mac since 2019. However, the video from 2024 also shows that City of Titans is still quite far from a release version. This is surely going to take a few more years.
