The game concept of the MMORPG Crowfall is well received. Because through crowdfunding, the developer studio ArtCraft Entertainment was able to raise over 3 million US dollars!
The Kickstarter campaign was successfully completed in March 2015 with over 1.7 million dollars. Together with the now over 3 million dollars raised through further crowdfunding plus additional funding, the project stands at a total sum of over 10 million dollars.
Crowfall is successful
Gordon Walton, president and executive producer at ArtCraft Entertainment says: “Over 18 months ago, Crowfall made it into the top 20 of the highest crowdfunded computer games and raised nearly 1.8 million dollars from over 16,000 supporters. The growth remains fantastic, and new backers join our community every month.”
Crowfall is not a typical MMORPG. The developers describe it as a “Throne War Simulator”. Because the events take place not in a persistent world, but in a universe full of worlds that are constantly being created and destroyed. Only in the Eternal Kingdoms, your home, is there “real” persistence. You travel to one of the worlds during each campaign and fight there for supremacy. Until the “Hunger” consumes that world. After that, you return to your kingdom and can expand it with your campaign achievements.
Campaigns instead of one big world
Each campaign lasts only a few months. However, it is still possible for you to form guilds and alliances to have better chances in the PvP battles and sieges. Because PvP is the core element of the game. In Crowfall, it’s not about quests and epic stories, but about conquests.
“It’s amazing that we were able to reach this milestone just a few days before the public testing of our persistent world servers,” explains J. Todd Coleman, CEO of ArtCraft Entertainment. “Until now, we were limited to a modular system for our tests – including the battles or the siege system. Now comes the first opportunity to experience the game as a whole in a large game world where you can play for days instead of just hours.”
Once the servers go online, testers in Europe and the USA will have the chance to experience the persistent game world of Crowfall themselves. The European servers will be hosted by partner company Travian Games.
The MMORPG Crowfall aims to combine the best of two genres. The MMORPG aspects should provide gaming depth. Strategy elements are responsible for keeping Crowfa...
