We don’t want players to spend more of their hard-earned money on the hope of a long-term place to play, only to have it disappear in a few months. Fixing the issues that are driving people away and getting lots more players to show up will cost significantly more money than we happen to possess.īecause of the aforementioned issues, effective immediately we are disabling IAPs for gold. Unfortunately, Steambirds is barely limping along right now and doesn’t have the critical mass of players that it needs to be a compelling MMO. Spry Fox is a small, independent studio with no investors or wealthy patrons, and we can only do so much. It has already cost us a great deal more than it has earned, and while we have plenty of ideas for how to improve Steambirds further, we have very little confidence that those ideas will be enough to turn things around. It pains us to say this, but we can’t afford to keep working on this game. We tried to rejuvenate the game with two major updates ( flocks together, and more together) and a number of smaller updates, but ultimately we weren’t able to achieve our goals.

But in some ways we have to admit that we have failed, as the number of players returning to the game quickly dwindled post-launch despite our efforts. In some ways, we feel like we succeeded - we made an experience with significantly less toxicity and greater cooperation than many online games achieve. We made Steambirds as a labour of love in hopes of bringing players together and building meaningful friendships between them.

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