What's Happening With Hytale?

It's been nearly 8 months since we last check in on Hytale, so let's go over the recent news and see how the new engine is coming along!

#Hytale

[mrjack]

Thank you for covering this game. Most write it off at this point because of how long it's been

[chancefreely]

I really don't know if I'd even play it at this point. When it was announced I was super excited, but I'm 22 now and work an 8-5 job. All of high school and college passed for me before this game has come out.

[karstsn]

I even forgot this game was still a thing

[Palemis]

Bro noway we're getting both silksong and gta 6 before hytale 💀💀

[spraybottlejim]

My goodness, when Chippy said this game started development in 2015 it hit me that this game has been in development for nearly a decade. 9 years of development, 6 of them after being announced.

[KyzaMizu]

I really wish Riot hadn't bought the studio.

We're gonna get hit with the F2P + Vanguard double whammy.

[heavy]

Hytale and Yanadere Simulator competing to see who can go the longest without a final product

[PersonCalledErin]

My worry is that in every blogpost it always sounds like "we're finally getting started". Did they get a ton of setbacks? People including myself are concerned and upset because we have no idea where they are in development anymore. We cant tell if theyve just started making the game even remotely playable because of the engine move, how long will it take to move the tons and tons of assets over to the new engine? Will the game even look like their trailer by the end of the year? Or the end of next year. It really does feel like its never coming out and I want to get some confirmation of whether or not the trailer was even representative of what they had ready and playable at the time, or if it was even rendered in engine or was just a concept demo animated outside of engine...
Was any of that real? Can we even expect to get what we saw?

I've defended them on the fact that it does take a lot of time to develop a game, but that leaves the trailer like an anomaly that shouldn't have been out yet. I get moving to a new engine takes time, I get covid happened, I get they were hiring a new team. But we only have small and vaguely worded hints as to some small things they were working on over the course of a year or more... as though they hadn't been even developed until that point.

The vague wording really doesn't help their case and reduces confidence in the idea that they even had any of their shown concepts developed properly. I'm hoping it's just a case of poor communication because they have all the assets and as soon as they transfer all of them and get them running they basically have their game at an alpha or beta state... but who knows at this point

[NekroYowane]

I'll be frank, if this game will have a price tag, I'll even dare say this could be Minecraft 2 and I'd pay for it just fine. The game shows so much promise and I have high hopes it ends up being successful, but I don't know if the F2P idea is... Well, good.

[emberpowertcg]

Im terrified at this point that the final game cannot live up to the hype, hope its a fun experience though

[Satwr]

See you in 5 years where we get our first 5min open playtest and then another 5 years where they announce the game is coming out in 2 years and then they delay it 20x and then Riot closes the studio to invest everything they have into their first party MMO

[danielkelsosmith]

The moment I heard it’s “free to play” I lost all hope.

[GarageCarport]

bro it took so long that I forgot it existed



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[PGrayOfficial]

I can’t even remember when this game was announced, that’s how long ago it was

[madengineerkyouma]

Well, no matter how long this takes there's still Vintage Story to play in the meantime.

[Serial_Designation_V]

Huh, forgot this game remotely existed. Though the news of it turning into free to play doesnt give me much hope about it, since it could possibly ruin it.

[Mega_Croissantamence]

So if this does end up being free to play, it raises the important question of where they’re getting their money from.

Option 1: aggressive microtransactions.

Option 2: selling your personal information. Considering the studio is now owned by riot games, which is owned by Tencent, I consider this the most likely option

[brandonheath]

"It took us 10 years to get here and we just started over so no one is seeing Hytale until 2030"

[blulikefriendlyhit]

This game's name should be "Scope Creep: The Never Ending Development"

[johndexterzarate]

....Bet the new engine is capable of supporting in-game store & microtransacrion