Spacelords is due to launch on August 23rd. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 22, 2017, and for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in November 2020. Ha ha what? Mate, it'd be fine to say "We thought Spacelords was snappier and kinda funny." Spacelords (previously known as Raiders of the Broken Planet) is an online free-to-play action-adventure video game developed and published by Spanish studio MercurySteam. Spacelords comes to embrace all of them -Raiders and Antagonists- under one umbrella." So, the new brand is not going to change the game lore at all, quite the contrary. "But this is about the Aleph, a mythical substance from the Broken Planet, a substance everybody wants -the Raiders, the Antagonists, each of the invading human factions.- All of them know that whoever controls the Aleph, will dominate the universe as the ultimate Spacelord. Beyond that, dunno really.īut why Spacelords, of all names? "We felt that 'Raiders' only focused on one specific side of the battle for the Broken Planet: The Raiders," Álvarez starts. The devs promise "exclusive and unique content" for people who have bought campaigns pre-F2P, and keep them unlocked too of course. The FAQ says they will sell optional instant access to specific campaigns, rather than having to complete a campaign to unlock the next.
SPACELORDS TIERS FULL
The full extent of how MercurySteam plan to make money off Spacelords is still unclear.
SPACELORDS TIERS FOR FREE
MercurySteam did briefly give all the campaigns away for free in May, but evidently that didn't produce enough of a long-term boost to keep the old model going. "We've answered our community and hope this removal of any payment barriers will build our devoted community further." "Our vision is to see our game enjoyed by millions of users for years to come and putting all of the game's rich content into their hands for free is the way to realise it," director Álvarez said in today's announcement. I hear it's, like, okay? But playercounts are low, peaking at barely over a hundred concurrent players in the past 30 days, which puts a multiplayer game in a death spiral of bad matchmaking. A fifth player can join as the 'Antagonist', see, a big nastie who has come to wreck you in the name of "a dark space demon." And it does support solo play too. Raiders Of The Broken planet is a cooperative-focused cover shooter with different classes romping through missions shooting and bashing faces, and occasionally going up against another player. Game director Enric Álvarez says they hoped this "would open it up to a large number of users, but it didn't work as we planned." And so, F2P.
Since its 2017 launch, Raiders has run under a shareware-ish model of giving the starter campaign away free then charging a tenner for each extra campaign (three so far).
MercurySteam's four-player cooperative (and sometimes 4v1) shoot-o-brawler Raiders Of The Broken Planet will relaunch as fully free-to-play in August under the new name of Spacelords, the Spanish studio announced today.
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