Will Boundless Maintain the vision of an exploratory MMO with the new buyout?

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@deenw

There was never any mention of this when I started playing back in maybe 2016ish or so

Like you, I personally prefer the MMO worlds - but James has mentioned the ability to play worlds locally since 2015. I do not know what Monumental’s opinions will be towards all of the original plans, updates, etc. They may not be interested in providing local offline worlds. They will be looking at Boundless through a fresh 2022 lens. Many things have changed (hardware, software, game engines, gaming, society) since 2015/2016. They seem very interested in Boundless - I think they deserve a chance to see what they can do with it.

@james

This would allow players to keep their creations and play them locally.

@james

We’re trying to make it easy for players to explore their worlds locally rather than depending on us to put them online.

@james

to find a solution so that everyone could explore their worlds locally

@james

2016 - In addition to the official servers, we also plan to release the Server for players and communities who want to host their own worlds and servers. Privately hosted worlds will not connect to the main game universe.

@james

I have considered allowing players to download these worlds and play with them locally