And though CEO Jeromy Walsh later retracted much of that and said the game was still in production with volunteer staff, the gamers who’d backed it for $14M+ in crowdfunds pressed onward with legal action. For more info on charge backs, read this Credit Karma post.In early 2020, Chronicles of Elyria stunned MMO gamers by announcing it was out of money, had laid off the devs, had closed Soulbound Studio, and had ended development on the game. Readers should be aware that they can contact their credit card issueing bank directly and request a Charge Back for undelivered services. Customers, some of whom had "invested" $10,000+ into their titles of nobility were furious: I'd rather people spend their money on games they can play now, or better yet, food and shelter, rather than on the continuned development of Chronicles of Elyria.ĮDIT: Keeping the official discord server up may have been a mistake. I knew doing so would mean having to close the studio. With unprecedented changes to society caused by the Covid-19 outbreak, and with economies beginning to suffer all around the world, I made the hard decision not to try and get additional crowdfunding. While we had no doubt that our backers would come to our aid, we're living in a volatile period in our world's history. To Soulbound's credit, they made the decision to shut down development rather raise more money from the community: In fact, it seems the company deliberately removed transaction history from user's accounts! There was no mention of refunds or compensation for those who pre-purchased land and titles of nobility within Chronicles of Elyria. The official post does leave the door open to some sort of future for Chronicles of Elyria, and the forums and discord servers will remain online for now. The closest we got to seeing any gameplay for Chronicles of Elyria was a short obstacle course style demo released to Alpha testers this month. I closed the online store, put the SoE map back into read-only mode, and laid off all the employees. Last night I was forced to do something I never thought I'd have to do. with the failure of Settlers of Elyria, and five long months of only limited crowdfunding revenue coming in, Soulbound Studios has officially run out of money. Unfortunately, little in the way of gameplay was ever revealed to the public during the roughly 4 years of development.īut to our great sadness. Community forums and outreach early in development led to the creation of multiple guilds led by 'nobles' who had pre-purchased in-game land within the game.
Soulbound Studios, the company behind Chronicles of Elyria, put a great deal of emphasis on the lore and roleplaying aspects of the game. The game continued crowdfunding off Kickstarter over the years, with over $8,000,000 raised to date. The Kickstarter campaign proved to be a success, raising over $1,300,000.
It isn't until towards the end of the post that we learn that the entire staff has been let go and that Soulbound Studios has run out of money.Ĭhronicle of Elyria was first revealed on Novemand launched a Kickstarter campaign on May 03, 2016. Caspian, the founder of Soulbound Studios, made an announcement titled: Chronicles of Elyria: Into the Abyss which starts by chronicling some of the progress the game had made over the years. In a shocking development, it seems Chronicles of Elyria is no more.
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