Hypixel Studios has officially purchased the license of Hytale from riot games, This meant that the project was canceled after just a few months,
The developer is also re-hiring 30 employees who were laid off as part of the cancellation. We write about it often, so covering its opposite is always a different experience.
Hypixel co-founder Simon Collins-LaFlamme called it a “new and exciting chapter” for the game, which has been in development for nearly ten years. He says he is “grateful to Riot Games for making this possible.”
Riot Games, which is owned by conglomerate Tencent, for an undisclosed sum. However, Hytale Was riding high at that time. The game had attracted over 2.5 million signatories for the upcoming beta and was scheduled to be officially released in 2021.
Years passed, and still no HytaleThis ultimately led to the complete destruction of the Riot project, “After years of moving forward, adapting, and exploring every possible avenue, it became clear that we could not Hytale Kind of kept my promise to life,” one read on the Hypixel website.
The studio has not disclosed how it found funding for the move, but Collins-LaFlamme said the founders are “personally committed to funding for the next 10 years.” Here’s hoping the game will actually be playable by that time. To this end, the company is planning to announce an early access release date in the near future.
“Hightley It has been a long and challenging journey. It has taken longer than anyone expected, and a lot has changed during that time,” the company wrote. ”It’s not going to be easy. It’s not going to be fast. This is not going to be right. But it’s going to be ours. Built together: one feature at a time, one bug fix at a time, one mod at a time.”
For the uneducated, Hytale is an excellent looking adventure game that can be described as an open world minecraftIt sure looks like that minecraftBut it puts more emphasis on action and RPG mechanics.