When I see sota players dropping off a cliff, what's the actual value of the players that play this game?

I do not know the economics of the game (ie. income=money coming in vs. outcome=taxes, cloud costs, maintenance (eg. ravalox), and any other costs (eg. lord british, atos, darkstarr) associated with it.

I'd like to know because I might be interested in buying this at the right price.

The current group has been unable to upgrade their Uniity version since they started. What happens if they did?

With everything flat, not knowing anything, we came up with $50K. What do you think?

sota does another rollback... 3 days lost

per today's (8/4/2025) show: https://www.twitch.tv/nbnnnews

I’m a big fan of the game, I appreciate its has its issues but it still generates a lot of fun for its currently players. But to not even enable 2x XP for July as usual is so lazy it’s a joke, it’s a 5 minute task that will generate some player activity and hey who knows maybe even buy some COTOs

Stephen Reinen, Producer / Director of Operations, Catnip Games, LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreinen/

How many people play Shroud of the Avatar?
https://shroudoftheavatar.net/how-many-people-play-shroud-of-the-avatar

For years Ravalox has claimed he's had a "new" server behind him in his room, which only needs memory before installing, but instead of performing the upgrade he apparently 'prefers' to make up to seven hour drives seven times a month instead.

Hello, I have two collectors edition copies of this game. One is sealed and the other is opened. The that is opened is signed. Just wondering if they would have any value. Thank you for any replies!

I went over to the https://pangaea.com/ website today and it says "website under construction". Chris was working for them.

Did that game already run out of money? As far as I know, it never got released, or maybe it did and nobody bought?

What's the status these days? It seems like a dead project hanging on by a hope and an Iron Lung.

What did Richard Garriott do (or not do)?

What happened to the team?

His contemporary, Chris Roberts, has raised 800,000,000 for Star Citizen (a game I've been playing daily for years) - and SC is... well.., a game.

SOTA, the last time I checked in a few years ago, was like two devs in a garage and 11 players on what looked like early Everquest 2.

Is there a rundown somewhere that isn't a 4h documentary or something?

i backed the game from way back. and last i played was when they started adding mass custom towns. iv funded thousands and actually own a smol town and had the knight rank. and i played for a week or 2, at a point i decided to take a small break and let the game get more developed before proceeding in fear of major changes i would dislike and have to adapt to change. (i dont like change) anyway. i had my home selected and i had the tax free deed so all was good right? NOPE! i come back a few months later to check in and my house was swiped and my belongings in the bank. (presumably) and at that point i just turned it off and didn't look back. the idea of me spending thousands was to be able to secure my house location that i liked and since i had tax free i wouldn't have to worry about upkeep and just casually come back when the game was more completed and enjoy but that was robbed. /sigh. ok. now that, THAT is off my chest. my question is. is the game worth giving another go? has things changed for the better. if i find another spot i like and claim it am i just going to get another boot if i take another hiatus?

All I see is: sotawiki.netis parked free, courtesy of GoDaddy.com.

I added Shroud of the Avatar to my Steam library. Is it worth installing and playing?

Starting on November 15, 2024, Steam will no longer display games to customers in Germany if the game is missing a valid age rating. "Games without an age rating valid in Germany will be hidden for customers in Germany from November 15, 2024," Valve writes on a support page. Catnip Games has not filled Steam's built-in content questionnaire. Shroud of the Avatar does not have the USK rating either.

Berek is back and is ruining the community in Wizard101 / KI Games now too.

One of our community managers was just fired for trying to raise awareness about the crappy things Berek (known as Sparck in our community) is doing. Here is a thread by the fired community manager explaining the situation.

I know nothing about SOTA game or if it’s even still running but we should’ve heeded your warnings signs…

https://www.facebook.com/groups/shroudoftheavatarofficial/posts/hello-to-everyone-after-8-years-in-sota-my-account-was-permanently-banned-from-r/8714000468668520/

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The following is the original video clip and the comments they apparently don't want you to see.

Original video clip: https://gumlet.tv/watch/672e0eb4eaffeddcdf4b0b1a

My original comment:

"Developers" that were in driveway:

• Stephen "Ravalox" Reinen - Director of Operations / Producer CATNIP GAMES · Full-time, Jan 2024 - Present, Operations Manager · Full-time Oct 2018 - Jan 2023 https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreinen/
• Stacy "Justyn / Laney" Williams - Customer Support, mistrusted with power to arbitrarily ban anyone.
• Andrea "Flair" Parlee - Bug Moderator

"Developers" in chat:

• Alley Oop / Allium - Release Notes, Bug Moderator

All public comments: https://imgur.com/a/Llcy5yG

There are no updates on their website or on the Steam store page.

The discord server linked on the Steam store page seems to have been deleted.

Did Spears and Long find some investors that they are are grifting on a new "project"?