hellhades.com<\/a> community and other angel investors. And with its debut title Godforge it is now targeting the very same community that plays \u2013 and spends alot of money \u2013 in Raid: Shadow Legends.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re trying to really evolve the genre to a next stage, rather than completely change it,\u201d Lockerby tells us. He says that Godforge has even deeper character and equipment systems than in Raid, and his team is trying to evoke the community feel of playing an MMO through the game\u2019s live events and group boss battles.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of our players are ex-MMO and World of Warcraft players, but they don\u2019t have the time to play those games anymore,\u201d Lockerby continues. \u201cSo that\u2019s one of the levers that we\u2019re trying to pull here \u2013 really fun, immersive battles, but where your friends and your allies actually make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
A separate intended point of difference for Godforge is the depth of its characters and storytelling, something inspired by some games like Etheria Restart and Summoner\u2019s War.<\/p>\n
Godforge is on course to be released in early access early next year, says Lockerby, who expects the cost of UA to be reduced \u201cdramatically\u201d as Fateless has already built a large community of high-spending players seeking exactly this kind of game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know we have to grow massively beyond our community to be able to be successful as a company and as a game,\u201d Lockerby continues. \u201cIt\u2019s really a massive snowball that we\u2019re pushing off the cliff here, but in terms of our starting point it\u2019s almost like a massive unfair advantage that we\u2019ve got this many players already waiting to play the game who are super keen on what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lockerby adds that while of course Godforge will cater to that audience of Raid: Shadow Legends big spenders, there will be plenty for free players to do too. \u201cWe know that we\u2019ve got a good percentage of these bottom of the funnel players, these big spenders, and some of them have spent insane amounts of money on the game, honestly,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a big free to play community within the group, and that\u2019s super important as well. We\u2019ve deliberately got things like normalised modes, where skill and knowledge matter, and actually, how much money you spent with the game is completely irrelevant\u2026.part of my ethos is, yeah, of course, we\u2019re going to need to make money as a business, but we don\u2019t really want the same predatory feel to some of the initiatives and the events in-game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Simon Lockerby has gone from making YouTube videos about Raid: Shadow Legends to directly competing with Plarium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-571983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}