Why Hytale Doesn't Exist

Hytale was announced almost five years ago, yet it's still nowhere close to being released yet. What happened?

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(also i know fortnite is a third person game ok I FUMBLED AND SAID THE WRONG THING 😭)

[Jeracraft]

I'm just going to mention that decent games take around 3-5 Years to develop, this is the only game I actually have hope for, compared to the gaming industry now where games are getting pumped out, unfinished, with glitches, errors, missing features, not to mention filled to the brim with tones of paid DLC and essentially loot boxes. In other words, the longer we wait the better. "This game needs to be perfect" is the kind of standard gaming companies need to adopt. Trust the process!

[totallyreyalfactsfsfs]

I'm gonna be honest, I completely forgot this game existed. This video reminded me that it existed just now.

[bigman]

Hytale is a name that I pops back into my mental consciousness every other week. For a game that has largely fallen into radio silence in terms of updates, it’s impressive. When I saw that they’d essentially be recoding their game in order to make it fully cross playable, I understood that this wouldn’t be a minor delay. Any significant updates would be rehashing of previously known content or minor differences here or there.

[lunaticgmd]

As someone that's doing some gamedev myself, I think what happened is Riot picked up the Hytale team, and one thing Riot NEVER does is half ass anything on release. Ghostcrawler, the ex creative director on Riot's mmo game project said that riot would basically throw any amount of money and time at the team if it meant they would release a finished game in a good state. This means that Riot basically only releases games when they are content complete and polished to a shine. The problem for a smaller team like Hypixel is that a small team would have a really hard time making a game of this scale, then polishing all their assets and features and reworking things to work with the much bigger budget they now have under Riot.

[axer]

Rewriting the game to C++ makes absolute sense since Riot is on their side and the money is basically not a problem anymore. Think about it, you don't wanna have split communities like with Java and the crossplay potential is absolutely huge. Riot will do absolutely everything to have a Minecraft competitor, even when it takes another 5 years to develop.

[FugaceFugite]

I agree with most other comments, I'm a game developer myself and Hytale's story doesn't sound like a scam or lie, but the reality behind making a complex game, it's just very hard.
What I suspect might have happened is that before they joined hands with Riot Games, they had a limit to their budget which forced their hands at pushing the game out before that happened, hence the early release date and the big hype generating announcements.

However, it likely all changed once the financial pressure was removed, or at least very lightened, with the support of such a massive company. Creative people like making stuff, and so with the time they now had, they saw bigger, they saw the potential with the hype around the initial trailer, and wanted to make their dream without compromising for the sake of getting money earlier.
What follows also makes perfect sense, as the roadmap gets longer and more stuff needs to be redone before getting back to being close to a finished game, any studio would naturally dial down the public announcements.

One reason is because the design is still evolving, and while sharing the thought process worked for some games, it's usually better to refrain from announcing ideas and concepts that might completely change or even be removed in the coming months.

The other reason is that generating hype years before releasing a game is a terrible idea, it's not only difficult to maintain for the developers, but also tiring as a potential player to keep getting teased over such a long period. As you pointed out, they said they realized a releasable version would still take years to make, so naturally they are refraining from hyping people up before they are fairly certain the game is getting ready.

If you look at AAA games this becomes even more obvious, such massive games are never announced more than a year before release, before that it's all secretive, but most of the big games nowadays take MANY years of development, when you hear about the latest AAA game, it's actually been designed 10 years before, prototyping had been done 8 years before, and development had been going on for 7 years.

All that to say that, yeah, maybe Hytale will never see the storefront, maybe it'll flop as it missed a golden opportunity, but I think this isn't anything out of the ordinary. I believe Hytale still has a good chance of becoming something great. What's for sure is that they're not going to flood the net with news when they don't know when the game will be ready.

[velryxia]

I was hyped for Hytale, but I can't bring myself to believe that it'll be released any time soon.

[breadboix]

Hytale is something I want to be released in a relatively good state where I can actually stand on like a mountain, look at my surroundings, and realize I am playing a finished game. Like a breath of fresh air

[ReyitosXD]

fancy editing won't disguise the fact that this is just another generic youtube essay with a misleading title.

[Reduxem]

You don't switch from Java to C++ just to get the game to "perform slightly better".
You do it to get exponentially better performance, more control over every facet of the game and to release it to a bigger amount of platforms.

[Kratos]

Rewriting a game from one programming language to another is no joke in the slightest. I'm willing to wait for this game to come out as this game will have much better modding capabilities to allow for easier code implementation.

[BitzelBlockington]

The way people talk about this game is really obnoxious and entitled. It's always the same rhetoric about how they 'announced it too early' and then they turn and say that they should keep releasing content and not let the hype die. Why should they be holding a consistent level of hype when its clearly still deep in production? People seem to think that they owe it to the Minecraft community or something. It's not a Minecraft update. People act like they have a stake in its production, like they backed a Kickstarter or something. It's unfinished. You can't just rush it. I can't imagine how annoying it is for developers to see the discourse surrounding it online.

[Lakthul]

As much as I'm frustrated with their lack of communication, I'm honestly happy that they're taking their time with this.
Usually when you hear about these kinds of delays, it's bad, but that's due to it being in development hell. From what we've heard, it appears to just be genuine development taking longer than what inexperienced developers expected.

[lightedtwice]

I do think that Hytale will not have to worry about advertising to a new audience, especially with Riot being their parent company. It is just another case of development hell in the industry, one that has a lot of potential and may be the next fortnite for minecraft.

[nikolaq]

Biggest change from base minecraft is Y level chunks, just insane how much performance this will give alone

[xOptima]

Honestly, I'm fine with the wait. Im excited to see what they do with their budget and creativity

[theracingolfer]

This is the first time I felt sour being clickbaited. Nevertheless, I'm glad people are still hopeful for Hytale's release

[coreblaster]

Guys chill out, "I used to be very excited for this huge indie project that is meant to compete with literally the beat selling game ever, but when I learned it was going to take time that killed the hype for me"
What is wrong with you people

[duckduckgoose]

With Mojang consistently making bad decisions for the community, we need Hytale more now than ever.