2023 was not an easy year for the PvE MMORPG Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. The creators caused a stir in the community with the development of a spin-off. After the complaints, the development team backtracked. Now the game wants to take its consequences from that.
What are the plans for 2024? Chris Rowan, CEO of Visionary Realms, has introduced on the official site of the MMORPG what goals it has for 2024. These include the following resolutions:
- Better external and internal communication
- Achieving set goals on time
- Delivering playable content even faster
- Using more resources to accelerate development
- Attracting more players to the MMORPG
With the external and internal communication, the development team is likely referring to the development of the extraction survival game, with which it wanted to earn extra money. The development of Pantheon was supposed to take a backseat, which the players did not like at all.
The standalone game was subsequently shelved. To avoid such missteps in the future, the team will likely talk to the community in 2024 before implementing such steps.
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen also received an art update that not everyone liked:
How 2023 went for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen
What happened in 2023? Since the title has been in the pre-alpha phase since 2017, players have been hoping for years that the title will finally make significant progress towards release. As Rowan reveals, the MMORPG has never progressed as far as it did in 2023.
The biggest topics in 2023 were the tools for game development and the art style. The graphics seemed outdated during development, leading the team to decide to take a different direction.
Rowan understands players, who do not like the new art style. However, he insists that the graphics in the game would come across quite differently than in the trailers. Therefore, he recommends that other people see the graphics for themselves and log into the MMORPG.
Another problem was that Visionary Realms increased the frequency of testing phases. As a result, new content did not come quickly, and players grew bored quickly. The development team is building on increasing the replayability of content so that players stay engaged with the current content longer.
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