somebody linked this to me yesterday and
said opinions you know what do you think
about this and I saw the name mortal
Exodus and I was confused because
obviously I know mortal from Mortal or
line the game developed by star Vault
and then of course subsequently mortal
online 2 which released not super long
ago I believe it's still in Early Access
and it's a game that I thoroughly
enjoyed the time that I played with it
at least mortal online one model online
two is just not got the stuff I want to
play even though I do think it is still
eventually going to be a better game
than moral online one and one I'll
definitely go back to at some point I
love sandbox games I love survival games
I love full loop PVP MMOs don't super
have the time to play them now and of
course be in in Asia probably not going
to get good enough ping to play anyways
but when I go back to Europe I'll I'll
definitely give more online to another
shot I said originally I wouldn't go
back and cover it again of course
because the player base at that point
was down to like 900 Post Release but no
matter what people say and of course
we're going to go through a lot of
negatives here and a lot of negative
headlines from regarding the star Vault
and Mortal online 2. The Game's been
objectively getting more popular over
time and this is a span of months and
very rarely does that happen with MMOs
and you're going to point at the fact
that it's only a couple thousand
concurrent players and I'm gonna say for
the amount of people that work on this
and the type of game is that's still
good these people are just irrationally
hate for loot sandbox PVP games instead
of just thinking that you know they're
not for me but they are for some other
people people just don't want them to
exist for some reason as if if you only
like chocolate ice cream we should
abolish all of the flavors just to suit
you I think it's good to have different
kinds of games and model online too
despite its flaws the development team
despite their flaws are delivering a
product that some people want and it's
hundreds of thousands millions of people
it's just not quite there yet but when
you release the game into Early Access
and it's missing so much of the content
you need for the game to be sustainably
fun
which again once that comes in it's
probably going to do considerably better
than it is now announcing that you're
developing another game is never going
to go down even if the details are
getting lost in the weeds a little bit
so they released this trailer and I'll
not play all of it I'll not play the
music generally as above
So Below it's just got this weird voice
in the background and it's essentially
when I was looking at it first because I
didn't read anything into it I was like
this looks like a mortal online
and then they zoomed out and they're in
space and you see the the face of one of
the character races in the game and I
was just so [ __ ] confused as to what
was going on here and obviously what
people are upset about is you've
released An Early Access MMO that's
missing most the content like territory
control for instance which is the main
feature of mortal online it's a sandbox
world in which what you will be fighting
over is territory and yet the game as it
stands right now has no territory
control so you can't build anything in
the open world so you're not building
these big towns and cities and blocking
things off and fighting over resources
it's essentially a Sandbox without all
too much sand so you've released the
game in this state and then come out and
say oh there's another game being
developed people are rightly going to be
upset now what mo2 and the developers
are saying is that this change is
nothing about the development of mo2 he
says 100 of the Mortal online 2 Dev team
is focused on territory control and
fixing bugs currently and we're looking
to further expand the team in bottleneck
areas mortal Exodus is not a sequel to
model online 2 and it has not and won't
affect more long until you've
development development in any way many
systems and components made for mo2 are
transferable and will be passed on to
model Exodus which will be worked on by
a different team mortal Exodus is a
long-term project for the future that
will help the development of mo2 I've
read this from so many developers unless
they've had a company come in and say
we're going to give you x million
dollars to develop a new game but the
money we give you can't be used for
model online too which is possible I
will leave the app there as like a
possibility because I don't know that
does happen that has happened and you
can pitch games like oh we can make this
type of thing to investors and maybe
they say you know we'll give you money
to do that so model online 2 is the most
important focus of star Vault and we're
spending all our resource and focus on
making sure we can deliver TC and
balancing stable way and in improved new
player experience lots of Polish new
player recruitment Guild no response and
improve standing and criminal system all
cool things yeah next week we're going
to focus on TC stream that we'll go
through in more depths how this is to my
work and what can be expected we're also
planning to public test session to test
TC and secure it before going live which
we will announce the details when we're
closer to this step oh so they do
literally go over here in mind there's a
few key points with the liberations and
when work is done on model access it
will be done with funds obtained
specifically for this purpose and will
not be taken from mo2 development budget
or affect its progress in any way now
obviously I can't confirm whether this
is a lie but if we take on surface level
what they're saying is fact which as far
as I'm aware star vault is publicly
traded as a business I think as you can
see here unless this has changed which
I've not heard anything about it
starvolt is a publicly traded company so
if you were to be lying publicly about
this I'm fairly sure that's a financial
crime so it probably wouldn't be a very
good idea so I do have to take them on
on face value on this one the more likes
this will only be worked on by third
party not the mo team this is something
we've seen much concern over the
announcement that people are worried
this new project will sap resources and
developer time from mo2 this is not the
case and you can rest assure the MR2
will never be compromised due to the
development of morale Exodus we want to
be clear about the fact that these funds
are obtained only for the purpose of
developing more Exodus so it's not
funding that could have gone to moto so
that for me clears this up and while I'm
not saying you can't be upset by this I
think if you read this and just assume
that they're not lying which would be
stupid to do there's not that much
reason to be upset because like I say
this is something that commonly happens
now can I imagine a world in which
somebody looks at the track record of
mortal online and star Vault and say
yeah that's definitely a company I'm
going to go and invest millions of
dollars into to release another game
when so far they released multiple games
and most of them are not at all popular
and definitely never been super
commercially viable no I I can't really
imagine that but if that's what they're
saying then I don't really have to
imagine it do I Molex this will be based
in the same universe but it's a separate
game to mo2 more Lexus is not ml3 it's
essentially mot but in a different
setting using the same technology and
systems although we understand that many
in the mo2 Community are not partial to
or excited for a Sci-Fi game please know
that our goal is to obtain more resource
for mo2 which this project will allow
for yeah I know optically this is never
going to look good and most people just
flat out refuse to read anything they
just get their opinions they they see
something they immediately react to it
and then don't onboard any more
information to inform their opinions but
this is not wrong of course if x is true
then why that's what we're going with
here if it's true that they've got
funding specifically for this game
releasing another game even if it fails
doesn't do anything to mo2 and if it
does succeed then of course more money
for the company company gets bigger
better for mo2 as long as what they've
said originally is true I still believe
that of course Henrik is probably gonna
have his time split because he is still
the you know main man at the company but
I think that's really the only angle you
can attack this out of being like a
negative thing other than optically
which of course it's always optically
going to be bad because like I say
people don't read more likes this will
be a byproduct that comes automatically
from the development and creation of mo2
and the team building the systems used
in the game these same systems can be
used by an external team that makes use
of what has been produced from O2 to
build a game set in the universe's
future that we can all benefit from
although we will be here for many years
and model ir2 is Far and Away our main
focus we are excited about the future of
this new project and to see what it will
offer fans of the genre we're currently
focusing 100 deliver in TC followed by
the epic games platform 02 so yeah what
I saw on social media like the the
social media posts on specifically on
the main mmrpg subreddit which uh you
know why I [ __ ] bother looking at
that at this point people will say you
know you know they've released An Early
Access game and then they're releasing
another one as a cash grab clearly not
read this which may be those comments
were before this was you know clarified
on and again it's possible that they're
lie in I just don't think that that
would be the case with it being a
publicly traded company that's not
generally allowed and while stranger
things have happened I'm obviously not
going to jump to that conclusion but in
general like PR wise this always looks
dog [ __ ] especially in the way it was
announced because all I saw was the
trailer and people going wild in the
comments which is you can see massive
dislike ratio and just a bunch of
comments talking [ __ ] which is
understandable considering the state of
mo2 and the state of mo1 if you played
it for all those years by the way that's
mortal Exodus that it makes sense but at
the same time the memes right itself
hopefully this won't mean in Exodus of
mortal online two players and the game
continues to do well because there is an
audience for this uh I'm not sure how
much of an audience are more Exodus but
I guess we'll see either way thanks for
watching see you next time peace out