Laggin

Gigaverse's 1YR anniversary this week. It's safe to say that when we launched the game, we did not expect to find ourselves at the precipice of epicosity we find ourselves today. It's been a wonderful ride so far. But I'm sorry to inform you, you've seen nothing yet. We've spent the last few months laser focused on big long term swings that set us up for years to come. We've expanded the team with a very specific set of very capable individuals, including additional engineers. We've upleveled how we work with tools & processes to scale with us, supercharged by a winning culture. Work on what we call 'Gigaverse 1.0', the "long term version of the game" is well under way, and this week we launch the first piece of it. Our pipeline for the months ahead is insane. Great time to start playing if you aren't already.

Dear Gamers, Against many headwinds, we have kept the project running, including with personal finances from the founders since July and long hours with a team reduced by 80%. We launched our game in Early Access on September 10th and despite bugs earnt a 4.2 rating on Epic Games, higher than our much better funded peers. We continued to improve the game with patches and features despite no marketing budget, below sustainment-revenue, loss of codevelopers and terrible web3 gaming sentiment (bar the recent exception of the very well funded Fableborne launch). Unfortunately we have been unable to find sufficient funding or an acquirer to continue on. After discussions with the Rift Foundation, we have accepted the painful reality that we are unable to sustain the game or token utilities and ChronoForge will be shutting down services by 30 December, 2025. Thank you for letting us attempt this ambitious vision and for your patience as we tried every path to keep it alive. A detailed post mortem can be found in our community discord.