As the title states, would you come back and play Boundless if there was an update
Would you come back and play if there was an update?
- Yes
- No
- Maybe
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Honestly, would all depend on the update.
If its reskinned creatures, blocks, grass, or fishing. Nah, I am good.
If its expanding on the combat, adding new PvE challenges. Heck yea.
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I often come back to check the forums in hopes that there’s been some news or developments. But I’ve always doubted there would be any.
It’s been nearly 3years since monumental’s acquisition of boundless and there has been nothing.
As I - and others - mentioned back in 2022 and 2023, this is what monumental does.
Crowfall went down in 2021 and has gone silent - despite monumental saying it would come back, there’s been no news for nearly 4 years.
Mythgard - a TCG like hearthstone - has basically been dead for years despite monumental claiming they’re going to revitalize and re-market the game.
Evidence suggests they buy games that have a low maintenance passive income stream, do just enough to maintain current state and give just enough hope to the player base to string them along and milk whatever profits they can until they shut it down.
Unfortunately, Boundless seems to fit this pattern - and they essentially make low risk income from private planets and gleam club. Even if it’s not much.
Who knows what the do after - maybe strip the IP for assets to recycle or sell. This is a common practice in business called “Vulture Capitalism” or “Private Equity Predation”
Monumental’s pattern bears resemblance to asset stripping and vulture capitalism—acquire, monetize, maintain just enough, but don’t invest heavily in content.
However, they say they’re preparing infrastructure and long-term development. The lack of concrete content or clear progress makes this hard to verify. There are games 30+ years old with skeleton crews putting out more updates than this with greater communication transparency (Ultima Online).
If you really want to see what they’re about - stop paying for private planets. And unsub from gleam club. Then see what they do.
If they truly are doing what they say - they should share a roadmap to build trust with their base. But a quick google search will show that this is a common refrain echoed in reddits and forum posts across their game portfolio.
It’s a real shame. I loved this game.
But it was better off in the hands of James and Turbulenz.
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James dropped it like a hot rock when the prospective to work on Baldur’s Gate 3 came around. If they had not offered the job to him and his team, they’d still be working on Boundless, or have shut it down by now.
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if there’s an update and i’m still logged in, i will have a look.
it would have to be something significant, my trust in Monumental is near 0.
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The only update I was really interested in was the updated skill page. And I wanted the swords melee weapons.
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Not sure I’d come back. It’s like the times, you know when your remember pizza from the cafeteria at school and remember how delicious it was. Then your going through the grocery store and there it is, your ready for that taste again, for the nostalgia and you finally have it. Though it taste like rain dried cardboard and you just ruined a precious memory. So would I return… I mean I ate the pizza when I found it lol
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I would be more active if regular updates were done. There is no game like it, and trying to replicate it will never be done. Everyone who looks at this game just looks at the dollar signs, and they try to extort money out of the player base. The long-time players with thousands of hours in the builds they build are especially vulnerable. They don’t want to lose the builds, so they keep paying for the GLEAM club. I am so disappointed in Monumental they made promises of a brighter future for Boundless. They have lived up to none of it, and it’s really hard for any company to gain a community’s trust back after such mismanagement and failed promises.