Everybody else has been laid off.
Fractured On-line shouldn’t be having a very good new yr. In a put up on the official Discord, Jacopo famous that the sport has underperformed with its full launch over the summer season and the free to play launch in November, and as such the crew has been downscaled from 7 to three.
They usually additionally aren’t getting paid.
Due to this, we’ve needed to scale down the crew to only me, Andrea and Michele (the three founders) because the finish of December. So sure, there at the moment are solely 3 folks working full time on the sport as a substitute of seven. We cowl all the sport wants (design, improvement and artwork), however there’s a restrict to how rapidly 3 persons are in a position to ship content material. The three of us are working unpaid, as we’ve been for the final 2 years, since all the sport revenues have been wanted to pay the remainder of the crew (and so they have been barely sufficient for that). That doesn’t make it any simpler, however improvement of Fractured On-line strikes on. Fortunately the backend is steady, so we are able to deal with new options, and revenues are sufficient to pay for servers, taxes, and slightly for ourselves.
The announcement does be aware that they wish to safe funding, acknowledging that the business isn’t precisely in a wholesome state in the meanwhile.
