The new MMORPG Camelot Unchained has completely disappeared from the scene for over a year now. Recently, rumors have emerged that half of the developers have been laid off. We at MeinMMO look at the current state of the MMORPG, which is so important for many veterans of the genre.
Who is Camelot Unchained so important for? Especially players who fell for the MMORPG fever around the year 2000, shortly after Everquest and Ultima Online and before WoW. Because Camelot Unchained is the spiritual successor of the MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot, which is a branch of the MMORPG tree that hasn’t sprouted many new shoots.
DAOC offered a special variety of classes and due to the relatively small servers, social structures emerged in which the players on a server knew each other, whether friend or foe.
Later attempts to create something like DAOC didn’t last long. Warhammer Online was quickly dead. In ESO and Guild Wars 2, there are still traces of DAOC, but actually, “Camelot Unchained” was supposed to be the successor. Behind the project was Marc Jacobs, the father of DAOC, who was so disappointed with the gaming industry after Warhammer Online that he wanted to create something of his own.
Since the funding was secured, there has been silence around Camelot Unchained
Why do we not hear anything about the game anymore? For more than 10 years, Camelot Unchained was “crowdfunded,” and the team aimed to appear regularly in the media to raise awareness among players about the MMORPG in the hope of finding more money.
But in March 2024, Jacobs announced that he had found investors to finally finance the game, after the MMORPG was already on the brink in 2023.
Now, they are aiming for a release in 2025. However, since March 2023 and this announcement, it has been quiet around the MMORPG. Apparently, they are now developing and see no need to reach out to the fans. They have the money.
A bad news interrupts the silence
This was the last news: After a long silence, information surfaced at the beginning of 2025 that there had been layoffs at Camelot Unchained. About half of the employees had lost their jobs.
However, there was no comment from the studio itself. They only assured that they would respond within 90 days.
The founder of the MMORPG speaks up, discussing great progress.
This is now the sign of life: As the 90 days are almost over, there has now been a brief sign of life from Mark Jacobs through his blog.
He states that they have made a “lot of progress” and will present the new Camelot Unchained in a livestream at the end of April.
Jacobs did not provide further comments regarding the targeted release date in 2025 or the significant layoffs.
We will have to wait for the stream at the end of April to finally discuss the current state of Camelot Unchained. But after sounding so enthusiastic at the beginning of 2024, the mood seems to have shifted again significantly. Legendary developer says: His new MMORPG was on the verge of collapse, but now it has a release date
