Here is my two cents … and it can be taken with a grain of salt as I have only been playing since January of this year… I’m AzureHunter/RedBound/GreenBound in game in case you didn’t recognize me.
As of today, I have invested an insane amount of hours…
So I for one am not bored, the lack of content updates while disheartening hasn’t put a damper on anything for me or my willingness to play the game just as consistently as I do now. It’s fun and there are enough community events that are just fun for me. I try to go on as many hunts as I can which can be fun … and if they aren’t I make them fun … I go on a number of Tesseract hunts and Gleambow hunts … I also gather and do meteors solo while gathering … I also have been trying to run a few shops, build a very LARGE color storage … I just built my first official “base of operations” for myself and god help me I started getting into forging … (FU RNG).
I also do so many other things I don’t see an end to it, but I have said it at least 50 times on the forums that while touted as an MMO it’s still a sandbox and a sandbox will ALWAYS be what you make it. If you are depending on development to make the game better for you in the end you will blow through any new content in a week to a month and be gone yet again.
What I would like to see is those of us that are playing to continue doing our hunts maybe get some community builds going again and if some community builds are happening and I am not aware of it send me the info I’m game to help out … I for one am sad that people are leaving, but I think overall maybe those people are just bored with the game and just want something new.
While I do know you will/may be back when the update rolls in, I only hope you aren’t the first to roll right back out when you get bored again. Playing a game that you enjoy and then getting bored with it and then expecting an update to change everything for you probably isn’t going to be the fix you are looking for. I do however hope it brings you back to stay…I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
@DKPuncherello Maybe recommending the game and growing the player base could put some things into gear … because obviously the opposite is happening and not working.
As far as I know it’s not ever been advertised as “offline” in any way, I’m not sure if they (the devs/marketing) have used the term “single player” either, honestly.
They’re just privately hosted worlds, still a part of the MMO.
We can’t just kick the whole PSN to the curb apparently, either. So, while the worlds are privately hosted, they still interoperate (to whatever extent) with the existing discovery and other services, and players on both platforms need some sort of a central lobby or whatever to meet up and connect to them.
Bluntly - I haven’t dug into the back end much, I’m not too interested in it. But I did want to point out that there are other aspects of the “phone home” functionality besides simply blocking unauthorized users.
I could understand the upset if it was a standalone property and they added some DRM with a self-hosted version. But in this case I think it’s more a matter of leaving that stuff on than it is about developing it. The game is already fully integrated with two services that require and/or provide a lot of that anyways.
they use the term single player a few times for whatever that is worth.
“The option to host a Local Universe on PC is the foundation for a shared local and/or single player experience”
“The primary purpose of adding an offline experience is to open the game up to potential players who have overlooked the game as they don’t want an online-only or MMO-only game.”
I have no need for it, but I will definitely look into making a phone-home bypass for this as soon as possible. Others in the community will probably beat me to it(more time and more closely applicable skills), but this is one thing I want to get behind.
All right well thanks for doing the digging then @Trundamere It’s no real difference if it’s a matter of intent or just loose semantics when it’s coming from the source.
Privately hosted MMO, single player, and “offline” all bring their separate (but overlapping) requirements and expectations to the table.
I’ll go back to staying out of this as I have no current intention to host, or play solo/offline
I’ve said it like a dozen times now but I’ll say it one more time. The game is dead. They have moved on. We will eventually get 249 out the door but then that’s it. The game isn’t lucrative for them. They’re seeing much greater financial returns working on BG3.
Boundless had a good run but it’s unfortunately time.
Let me be clear. I’m not saying that they’re going to shut down the servers. What I’m saying is that this is what the game is at this point. It’s done. Finished. No more updates after 249. If you like Boundless as it currently is, then by all means enjoy it. If you, like me, are still waiting for stuff they promised for 1.0 launch, have 2000+ hours sunk into the game and are tired of the lack of updates then we’re done with it all.
ARK forever mwa ha ha seriously it’s the hardcore version of boundless always going always there never ending
Ironically this is the game that has taken my time away from ARK planning on returning when my base is all done
I’m also glad I’m not the only ark person here still my favorite game
Boundless is a close second
Just a extra tidbit once my base is done I’ll take a couple days break to work on ark so I can do this more often but also do ark
I did eventually play more hours of Boundless than I had of ARK; my Mac can no longer run anything but DLC map/no mods single player local–ARK just crashes around the point it connects if I select anything else. It’s been over a year and I mostly just miss a couple of the big PVE mods like Pugnacia mod and of course triceratops, and Roraima and Crystal Isles and Extinctions (the underground forest) maps and watching Swords’ human NPC mod developing, and some of the peeps I had similar tastes in servers. @Fuzzybear1919 did you have any favorite mods/maps/ervers?
do not worry, there are still many active veterans left, I have not yet passed the game xd, despite having more than 1000 levels, I do not see the end, it is a large community very difficult to leave, I just started building xd, lamella farms still has a lot to live for
Yup… the leveraged the existing DB and other components so I doubt people will ever see an isolated fully functional game. It isn’t worth the development time plus why would anyone want to run the secondary services since the Worlds already eat up enough resources.
Boundless has one of the best communities in any MMO I’ve ever played. Yes, it’s super lacking in content but something tells me the player base wouldnt be so friendly if they were busy grinding through loads of content. There are definitely pros and cons, I had a good time playing for the the 4 months I’d dedicated my life to it pretty much. I’m a trophy hunter at heart tho, so I have to mention one true negative point: this is the only game I’ve ever come across that doesnt even have enough content to support the trophies. Try to explore 40 different types of worlds or whatever.
Hey bro I kinda disagree the game has improved from day one and in it’s current state the game is playable and no dev is needed for that, so not recommending boundless due to lack of sight from the developers is not really a good point for me
