Square Enix Collective no longer publishing Boundless

[bucfanpaka]

Agreed!! Love you all, can’t say that enough, this community has been such an incredible comfort and source of support for me! And regardless of outcome, even if a sudden plug pull, I do say thank you again to the devs for providing us with what they did, and wish them all the best, truly.

[xamxl]

Thank you so much for saying that!

[Goblinounours]

@majorvex

I think things will be fine.

MV, are you trying to jinx us?

[ardele]

Steam page still shows SE as the publisher.

[MadManMoon]

I mean … give them a second, yeah?

@ardele

Steam page still shows SE as the publisher.

[majorvex]

I should add, I hope I don’t end up eating crow lol. Just looking at things cost-wise, it doesn’t seem like this change would negatively effect things. I have no idea what James thoughts are, moving forward though.

Edit to add: now we know Boundless now self published on Steam

[almund]

When SEC collaboration was told it wasn’t good sign, because Grin story delivered bad image related to SE name

[ardele]

I waited 3 hours, couldn’t wait much longer

[bucfanpaka]

Got our update!

(If anybody coming here directly and didn’t see)

Boundless now self published on Steam

Hey Everyone. As you may have seen SQEX will no longer be publishing Boundless on PC. We thank SQEX and everyone in the Collective team who supported us and the game. There is a small update schedule that removes SQEX as publisher from the game. This will be deployed once Steam is updated to reflect the change of publisher. We will continue to maintain Boundless as we have since putting the game online. We plan to share more exciting news about Boundless’ future in the coming weeks. …

[SenshiroSan]

Exactly! That’s why boundless and its community has an important place in my life, we all have different opinions, whatever one may think or say has always been done with respect.

I mentioned it in my first topic, it is very rare that I post in forums, almost never, either by fear or shyness, maybe because of my limited English Lol.
I retain positive in this adventure, by love for boundless and with your help to all here, I managed to overcome this fear, I could never forget that and whatever happens in the future I want to thank you all here to have taken part in this human adventure.

[tarranth]

Another possibility I could see is something I mentioned before. To cut down on server cost, they cut down the number of permanent planet per region, to possibly 6. Sucks if it happens, but if it would mean the game survives, I’d be fine with it.

[Redlotus]

Me too I’m on a Sovereign

[MadManMoon]

no thank you!

@tarranth

Another possibility I could see is something I mentioned before. To cut down on server cost, they cut down the number of permanent planet per region, to possibly 6. Sucks if it happens, but if it would mean the game survives, I’d be fine with it.

[Kal-El]

We know from statements made by Phil that the steam revenue alone was not enough to pay for the servers. It will be interesting to see if the revenue from PS players is enough to make up the difference. If not then this suggestion makes sense to me. Phil had indicated the server costs are in the low thousands per month. So if it was say $3000 per month that would be more than 600 people paying for gleam club each month. It is more than 600 since Steam and probably Sony/PS get a cut of the money. If it is $2000 per month then it drops to over 400 gleam club members per month.

I think it is also important to remember that the reason we have so many planets is planets were added after launch to accommodate more players. As an example planets were added during the Steam Free weekend in order for there to be enough low level home planets for the more than 1000 simultaneous players we had. Unfortunately we did not keep enough of these players to cover the costs of the planets that were added.

[BabyCookie]

If Houchus goes I’ll quit and want a refund of my 10 years of gleamclub. (O.O) or am I reading that wrong hehehe Book For Dummies here “pointing at me”

[tarranth]

The most logical thing for something like that is that they have a Dev post where people would vote on which planets to keep. For US East, I’d definitely vote for Houchous over Shedu Tier.

[Rydralain]

I did some math in another thread and determined that sever costs are likely between $1,000 and $7,000 USD a month, but remember that those servers are also running the 300+ sov planets, which generate at least $3,000 monthly revenue assuming they are all the smallest size.

[Redlotus]

@Kal-El

more than 1000 simultaneous players we had. Unfortunately we did not keep enough of these players to cover the costs of the planets that were added.

Can the servers even handle an influx of players? I would much rather see the playerbase grow than just “maintain”.

[Kal-El]

Phil had indicated the server costs for the public universe was in the low thousands per month. Unfortunately he was not more specific than that. That probably fits more with your high end total (including Sovereigns) than the low end. The public might be more expensive since they support more player instances than the sovereign planets .

[Kal-El]

Technically we had over 1000 players on the public planets simultaneously (this was long before sovereigns and I think even before exo-planets). I do think there were some issues with some planets being full, but how many I have no idea. I would think the existing public universe could handle more players than we have now, since it has done so in the past successfully. Maybe not over 1000 and everyone being happy but certainly more than we have now.

I do agree more players is better for the game. Hopefully more players is more gleam club and other revenue to support the game.