Notorious Studios has revealed that their upcoming MMO/Extraction game Legacy: Steel and Sorcery will shed the “testing” tag and move to early access on my birthday, February 12th. I’m sure they totally did that on purpose, right? Anyway, at that point, the team will be asking for $24.99 on Steam with plans to let the community help develop the remainder of the title.
Now I’m a big believer in the idea that asking the public for cash, even in “early access,” opens your product up for critique as it if were released. Companies can hide behind the “this isn’t launch” excuse all they want, but sorry, you asked for straight cash, not a support pledge here.
With a few other extraction games eschewing the shooter genre lately, I caught up with Chris Kaleiki, the founder and CEO of Notorious Studios, to get scoop on exactly what this team of ex-World of Warcraft devs was creating, what it offered that was different, its payment …