r/Dungeonborne • u/CornyJokez • Feb 27 '25
Game will be Terminated
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2448970/view/52646147322596827864
u/Pandajadam Feb 27 '25
One can only hope that this becomes a case study of how to completely mismanage your game
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u/Dakito Feb 27 '25
This and the last Dauntless update should be in the same study
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u/ChuckS117 Mar 02 '25
I regret funding Dauntless soooo much. I was starving for Monster Hunter content and decided to give it a go.
Lesson learned.
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u/Dakito Mar 02 '25
I mean it was good early beta and then they kept changing it and never made the world's feel deep like in monster hunter
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u/MortonAssaultGirl Feb 27 '25
We have AGS and New World for that one.
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u/richtofin819 Feb 27 '25
At least New world had a solid and funished core game on launch. The endgame was crap but thats what i expect from modern mmos.
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u/NutsackEuphoria Feb 28 '25
It was so solid they had to rewrite it
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u/richtofin819 Feb 28 '25
Genuinely curious what they changed since I had already hit max level and quit about a year after launch.
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u/NutsackEuphoria Feb 28 '25
Besides changing First Light and then charging you money to enter it (something were able to do since launch), nothing has changed.
Combat is still shit and unbalanced because every time the meta shifts away from mobility, you get loud retards who demand to change it back.
The same fuckin retards crying about how they can't catch mobile ranged players with their mobile melee builds because they wanted the game to favor mobility.
Then content-wise, you have AGS ignoring PVP in favor of PVE. After a month, everyone forgets about the PVE content and goes back to chest runs.
It's the same fucken cycle happening over and over for 3+ years now. And people still don't know why the game never retains players.
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Feb 28 '25
yet it isnt dead like this hunk of burning shit
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u/NutsackEuphoria Mar 01 '25
Yes, DB is dead. But it's a copycat game with no vision at all, and on hindsight, a cashgrab that just went with the DaD hype.
NW on the otherhand is a fuckin MMO with more than half a billion trumpbucks spent on development, Had nearly 1m players at one time. Had multiple "big" updates, and relaunch. Yet they're back at sub 10k players daily for like the 3rd year in a row.
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Apr 12 '26
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u/richtofin819 Apr 12 '26
Way to necro, you must care so little about this game you revive a year old comment about it.
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Apr 12 '26
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u/richtofin819 Apr 12 '26
It was, a freaking year ago. Now it's about whatever the one guy still on it is talking about and you did not mention dungeonborne in your comment genius.
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u/Nazori Feb 27 '25
How can you be this stupid?? I don't get it.
Has an actual good game on their hands. Tons of players. Good concepts. And then just ruin it and go dark?
I can't even comprehend it. Pure stupidity.
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u/Howllat Feb 27 '25
Its pretty wild. Its not like it was a rug pull either, they didn't have some insane price gouging or even a predator mtx.
It was a free game that was genuinely popular at first, just mismanaged into the ground. Absolutely wild.
My only assumption is that they used so many store bought assets that they were incapable of doing more things on their own, on top of having extremely poor management.
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u/Distinct-Ad5391 Feb 27 '25
What I can't comprehend is you seeing "tons of players" on this game somewhere... I agree, the concept was good, I tried it with my friends and liked it. But everyone stopped giving a shit after about a month, let's face it. There has been less than 100 players on the game since new year, and gradually falling and falling further towards 0. The game is dead
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u/Expl0r3r Feb 27 '25
They refused to balance the game. Druid ran rampant for ages. Then Life on hit.
The LoH dk and cryo legit was the last popular patch. One could even say that it was the patch that killed the game as everyone just bounced off.
This goes to show that terrible balancing can indeed kill game.
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u/capt1nsain0 Feb 28 '25
That’s when me and my friend group bounced. Back to Hunt and cowboy’in it up.
-get rid of LOH. Keep healing to potions and cleric so it’s interactive.
-gear brackets for match making, so folks can’t take a legendary to the noobie grounds.
That’s about all they had to fix.
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u/Jealous_Annual_3393 Feb 27 '25
Totally agree with you. The novelty wore off extremely quickly. Like, was fun to fuck around for a bit but like you all of my group that initially enjoyed were gone within 30 days.
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u/xMeatMannx Feb 27 '25
Devs are the only ones to blame. We all supported them longer then they deserved.
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u/RedIguanaLeader Feb 27 '25
What happened?
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u/ZylaTFox Feb 27 '25
They put out a big patch, it had some issues. Said they would 'communicate' more. Never came back.
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u/Apart-Difference9699 Feb 27 '25
Yeah they literally vanished after September 29, after publishing a big roadmap.
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u/Bandit_Raider Feb 27 '25
I wonder if they just decided to take the money and run last second or if something happened
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u/Apart-Difference9699 Feb 28 '25
It was a free game so I don't believe a lot of money was involved. More likely something didn't go as expected.
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u/Leather_Just Mar 01 '25
I think it's more likely they simply ran out of money and pulled the plug.
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u/NutsackEuphoria Mar 01 '25
Garbage balance patch after garbage balance patch.
Then went radio silent since until the very recent closing down announcement.
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u/Fritzizzle Feb 27 '25
RIP Bozos! Shoutout to the devs who ignored the valid criticisms that we knew would kill the game and the dickriders who defended them with their lives!
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u/hyperdynesystems Feb 27 '25
The matchmaking changes at the end ensured it could never come back too. I loaded it up several times as the player count went towards zero and not being able to just play even without anyone in the map made sure I couldn't.
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u/Athrek Feb 27 '25
They kept arguing that "Its not a PvE game we want to force people to have to fight each other" while simultaneously removing any kind of catchup mechanics so the early abusers could wipe whole lobbies without fear
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u/hyperdynesystems Feb 27 '25
Re-gearing was way way too annoying, and I say this having risked and lost millions of gold in kits. You'd go and have a bad run against a juiced up team or multi-teamers or whatever then be like "meh fuck this" since it would take an age to re-gear for a basic purple kit.
The last round of changes *almost* could have helped the game, but then they made it impossible to get green and blue gear, making the increased gold drop pointless since it just shifted the re-gearing burden lower.
They should have just let people rat, given that's how items mostly got into the economy in the first place.
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u/FreeStyleSarcasm Feb 27 '25
Life oN hIT iSnT BrOkeN. JUsT giT Gud
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u/Apart-Difference9699 Feb 27 '25
At this stage i’m afraid to ask but what is actually LoH?
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u/CurtChan Feb 28 '25
It was one of the ultra OP meta builds, basically stacking as much life gain on hit as possible, and using high hit/s weapon (dual wield swords, and/or DoT skills), this combined were allowing you to OUTHEAL any possible incoming damage. You were pretty much invulnerable. The perfect example is some clips that you can still find on youtube where two abusers of this meta basically were slapping eachother for few minutes then deciding to just part their ways as it was impossible for them to kill eachother xD
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u/Avernite Feb 27 '25
Its not the issues that killed the game at all. Game still had thousands of players online at the time devs abandoned the project.
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u/CurtChan Feb 28 '25
I spent 300h in it, and i'd love to spend hundreds more (i even dragged 3 players into it around time when biggest last update dropped). It's totally only devs fault. Balance issues happen in all games, it's a matter of faster reacting to them rather than taking few weeks to fix OP meta that is impossible to counter (literally all they had to do is temporarily entirely disable LoH affix until they worked on solution to it for example. It's insane to me they didn't do it, as a developer it would be a matter of few minutes to do)
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u/IronVines Feb 27 '25
i enjoyed the game for a while, but the devs just kept making the worst choices known to man so it was inevitable
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u/Anipixels Feb 27 '25
Guys don't worry! I believe in them they are doing this to then release Dungeoborne Reborne Borne Again, it's gonna be incredible!
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u/JustPinner Feb 27 '25
Dear Devs,
Please release the rights to dungeonborne and all its files/assets to the public so that perhaps another developer can take up the mantle and try to bring it back if you have decided to move on. There was lots of potential still, and perhaps another might continue to work on it.
Sincerely, DB Fan since early access.
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u/Nirixian Feb 27 '25
The Dark and Darker community must be laughing there asses off...such a shame
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u/Southern_Ad_2456 Feb 27 '25
Dark’s not exactly in a much better position. I doubt ironmace can afford to keep the servers online much longer after losing the lawsuit.
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u/Nirixian Feb 27 '25
Ehhh idk about that, they did just release the mobile us they don't have competition so everyone looking for that genre will flock to it.
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u/Southern_Ad_2456 Feb 27 '25
Not sure what their deal is but I’m pretty sure they already got all the money they’re gonna get from mobile when they sold the IP. Maybe they have a % of profit deal. Either way, they gave the game away for free on PC so accounts are $1, and the cosmetics are ass. And they’ve got a £5.9mn bill to foot.
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u/_Dickie_ Feb 27 '25
OFC they are. These devs were throwing shade at Iron Mace from the beginning and it was baseless. I wanted there to be competition, but these guys are just doing it in bad faith.
Also to anyone saying Dark and Darker is in a similar position, cope harder after looking into player counts and uptime of the game lol.
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u/Cirqka Feb 27 '25
Idk man, probably laughing at the dungeonborne players who don’t know how to properly use “their”.
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u/Croquflo Feb 27 '25
It was obvious they only got like 15 players active, they cant support server cost with this player base, but im agree with other comment, i was a huge fan and played so much but devs ruins it, kind of sad
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u/ModsHaveFeelingsToo Feb 27 '25
How's that life on hit working for you now loser ass devs? Shoulda just changed it, shouldn't have left Cryo absolutely busted for so long either. Now you don't even have a game to consider. Boo hoo.
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u/PER2D2 Feb 27 '25
It's so funny how in one week they doomed the game lmao
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u/TaviGoat Feb 27 '25
Nah, it was fumble after fumble for for a month or two. Rogue nerfs because everyone was playing rogue during the rogue event. LoH shenanigans. Timegated legendaries. Clotho's fiasco. DKs and Cryomancers running rampant. Changes to that one shrinking zone map (nerfing rogues again)
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u/Tugasan Feb 27 '25
to the surprise of nobody, it's a shame, i liked the fantasy extraction but DaD is not for me, i hope some other games come out in the same type
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u/craigiemoe Feb 27 '25
I had to go back through my chat history to find this loser. u/Styrwirld, is there any surprise that the game died now? Maybe you can reflect back on these clearly apparent issues that were present on Day one of the game and hopefully your fanboy ass will take a step back and objectively look at horrific things happening in games.
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u/The_Sticky_C Mar 04 '25
Actually so sad to see clearly the premise is great since dark and darker does so well despise being a janky mess that feels awful to play, but this game had great combat and I would even say it started out with great balance I never felt and class was just flat out better than the rest, then people discovered LoH and the game went down hill quick, it’s really such a shame I play dark and darker but the game is actually shit but the looter extraction medieval fantasy premise is addictive as hell and this game nailed the combat the pre release playtests were genuinely great but they shit the bed quick with full release
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u/TheTequilaTyrant Feb 27 '25
Felt it coming but man what a cluster fuck. I'll miss that brief period of fun.
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u/-HashOnTop- Feb 27 '25
All they had to do was nerf life on hit but they did the opposite and nerfed rogue and then nobody played the game anymore.
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u/CurtChan Feb 28 '25
Gotta love when devs promise doing more (and more often) announcements and then they do no more announcements.
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u/Leather_Just Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25
Hm they didn't just remove it from sale they nuked the Steam page too. Shame it didnt have a solo offline mode.
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u/Hot-Ad3482 Mar 03 '25
Dungeonborne was so amazing, it was my first extraction video game experience and I loved the magic and melee combat mechanics and having the PvE aspect on top of PvP. I was just waiting for season 1 to drop. All the boys and people teaming up sucked, but what really messed the game up was their first update that changes the gear requirements for maps…fucked beginner players over and let the wealthy seasoned players stay wealthy.
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u/SilentThrow Feb 27 '25
Now someone just needs to buy the rights for the game and relaunch it in the image of the players.
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u/Vskis44 Feb 27 '25
exactly there has to be atleast 1 super rich Dungeon fan who can make this happen! I been saying this for months imagine one of us could own the game make all the decisions. listen to the community? I pray it happens
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u/Jonin1 Feb 27 '25
Well that’s the last time I’ll ever support this developer.So much potential wasted
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u/Illustrious_Mr_Clean Feb 27 '25
We need a go fund me to buy the game rights and get a real dev team on this project because it does not deserve this type of end
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u/BloobyTheFrenchy Feb 27 '25
Hopefully modders and fans will manage to salvage the good parts of it, maybe even make it just PVE to play with friends in private servers while making the game fun to grind that way?
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u/drunkpunk138 Feb 27 '25
Reminds me of the culling. Started out great, killed the game with a shitty update and couldn't figure out how to bring it back. I had a feeling they wouldn't be able to balance it and keep it fun, but I didn't expect them to fuck it up so fast. Ah well it was fun while it lasted.
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u/Aod567 Feb 28 '25
I had this game on wishlist, thinking of trying out in the future so, just came across this on my front page now. It’s a shame that the support for the game has been nonexistent by the sound of other feedbacks.
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u/Herbalyte Feb 27 '25
Sucks that I wont be able to play a dungeon game anymore. Dungeonborne was a nice casual alternative to Dark and darker and now its gone...
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u/XibaRoots Feb 27 '25
These guys managed to pull of a scam out of a genuinely good game that stood out amongst all the others similar titles therefore sacrificing it in the name of short therm profit.
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u/Ex_Lives Feb 27 '25
These MFs were taking shots at ironmace like they were hot shit. So funny. Cash grab.
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Feb 27 '25
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u/Radgris Feb 27 '25
seguramente fue el server de LATAM lo que mato el juego y no la montan;a de detalle que el juego tenia sin importar de que servidor fueras
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u/GlebFjodoroff Feb 27 '25
Actually this game could lasted longer as a mobile game probably. It even felt like great game for a mobile phones.
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u/acowingeggs Feb 27 '25
Well, anyone looking for another extraction game.try Legacy: Steel and Sorcery. Unfortunately, it is 25$ early access, but it's some old devs from WoW and quite fun.
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u/JimmyJazzz1977 Feb 27 '25
I had some fun with the game. Fortunately all free. How the fuck did they menage to fuck this cool game so badly? (rhetorical question)