He was more than 7 years in development and has finished canceled, now we know what to do the Riot Games Minecraft was nothing cheap – Hytale
It was one of the most devastating news of the week: Hytalepopularly known as’The Riot Games Minecraft‘ It has been canceled. The title was initially announced in 2018 – although its production began much earlier – and raised the expectations of thousands of players, but this presentation was followed by a development plagued with internal problems in the offices of Hypixel Studios. Now, for more inri, it has been revealed that production was nothing cheap And its authors were “Burning” thousands of dollars To do the project.
The data has come to light thanks to An X post by Simon Collins-Laflamme, founder of Hypixel Studios and who left the company a year after the official presentation of Hytale. “I don’t know what happened in recent years, I have not seen the game since 2019. At that time, the team He was concentrated and struggled to the maximum. The impulse was incredible, we were at a stage in which they introduced themselves Many playability elements every week And the game was quickly taking shape for the launch, “recalls the professional.
“I burned Maybe 350,000 – 400,000 (dollars) per month In the development of Hytale – something, somehow, sustainable – but that was before Hypixel Skyblock (a version of Skyblock, the most popular survival world of Minecraft) and the server (from Minecraft, for which Hypixel Studios gained relevance in the sector) was in decline, so I needed financing to move forward at that pace. “It was here that Riot Games appeared with an agreement to collaborate in the development of Hytale; situation that stressed Collins-Laflamme to the point of causing his voluntary march of the company. In this sense, the developer explains that” the pressure of having the riot Games seal and a super viral trailer (accumulated more than 61 million views YouTube), more financing and higher expectations made us doubt ourselves. On a personal level, I could not meet these new expectations And Riot gave me the option to leave. The team was so good that I felt like an imposter then”.
The most curious thing is that Riot Games was not the only company interested in finance the development of Hytale. In fact, Collins-Laflamme remembers rejecting an even better offer: “They offered me much more money From a different company and I left at the time of closing the treatment – many people can attest to it – but in the end I decided to go with Riot because I really thought I would give the team a better opportunity for success and more financing For the game “.
The founder of Hypixel Studios does not blame anyone
Several developers have come to the fore to clarify that Riot Games has had no blame in the internal problems of Hypixel Studios; what has led to Publicly point to CEO of the company, who is known as Noxy on social networks. For Collins-Laflamme, however, this professional really worried about Hytale’s future. “Yes, he is ultimately responsible as CEO (from Hypixel Studios), but I feel it is because noxy He trusted and hired ‘real’ producers with real ‘experience’ In the video game industry, and let them conduct the project in something more with larger plans, and began to Rewrite A lot of characteristics, systems and even the graphic engine “.
“As if they wanted to appropriate the game to try the world, they were better. I don’t know, we never talk about this, but that’s how I feel it worked from an external point of view.” In his explanation, Collins-Laflamme admits that Hypixel Studios worked in multiple Builds Hytale over the years and ensures that “The vision of day 1 and the 2,000 day are completely differentthe world will probably never see what it was destined to be, I wish there would be a way. “
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