The popular space shooter Boundary has been abandoned due to a clash between publisher and developer
Boundary, a space and zero gravity themed FPS, has been abandoned by the publisher and developer, between whom a clash is underway. Let’s see what was revealed by the two parties involved.
Boundary is a space-themed multiplayer shooter based on a simple idea: zero-gravity PvP. The game was announced in 2019 and released in early access in April 2023. Now, however, the game is being abandoned .
The shooter achieved good success at launch, with over 100,000 copies sold in the first 24 hours and a good initial response from gamers. About a year later, development on Boundary will be halted before the game even leaves Early Access (which was supposed to last six months).
The clash between publisher and developer of Boundary
The publisher explains: “After careful consideration, Skystone has decided to relinquish the publishing rights to Boundary, effective at the end of June. Over the past few months, there have been significant delays and a notable lack of updates to Boundary content.” .
“Despite our efforts and support, the developer has been unable to provide the updates and improvements necessary for the game to thrive. This has led to growing concerns within our community, and we share your frustration. Unfortunately , the developer has made the difficult decision to cease all services for the game rather than continue to operate it in its current state.”
The popular space shooter Boundary has been abandoned due to a clash between publisher and developer
Boundary – Announcement Trailer
Developer Surgical Scalpels has a different take on the situation, via machine translation (the original text is in Chinese) we read that: “SkyStone’s unilateral decision to discontinue Boundary is extremely sudden and unreasonable for the studio and players. We immediately negotiated with SkyStone upon receiving the notice, but unfortunately we were unable to change SkyStone’s unilateral decision to discontinue Boundary.”
“In response to the current situation, the studio is working to regain the rights to operate Boundary and is making every effort to preserve account data, creating the conditions for a subsequent relaunch as much as possible.”
“At the same time, the studio is continuously striving to obtain the gains that Boundary has deserved so far through negotiations and legal means,” says the developer. “Because so far the studio has been unable to recover the revenue it is owed from SkyStone.”
“Boundary’s business may be suspended because of this, but it won’t stop forever. The studio is a stronghold. We hold firm, we are here and we will never abandon Boundary .”
On July 1st, however, the game will be offline and we don’t know when we will be able to play it again. We had tried the Steam demo of this space shooter .
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