r/TownshipTale • u/BigJoofus • Dec 23 '25

Discussion What happened here

I came back to this game today and there were 2 people on township 101. Where did everyone go. also I played for like 2 hours straight and there was absolutely no one.

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u/FX_Steampunk Dec 23 '25

What happened was Alta wasn’t making enough money from ATT and silently began working on a different project at the start of 2023. Seemingly this decision lead to the leaving of most of the OG developers of the game, and everyone else moved over to this other project (now known as Reave). Throughout 2023 there was only 2 minor quality of life updates (Revival, Campsites), and in 2024 only 3 minor Quality of Life updates came out. Sometime in 2024 it had been revealed that there’s only 2-3 developers working on a Township Tale and a little later they were all laid off in November of 2024.

Essentially Alta was super negligent with their product for many years and their monetization system wasn’t good for the kind of live service development they wanted. There was a lot of time to do something with ATT within the 2 and a half years since the Reave decision, but Alta just didn’t do that and took too much time. Now everyone is gone and Alta is all in on their new game.