i dont understand the hate for this
trailer and gameplay looks insane and given its Santa Monica Studio its going to be fucking epic ?
We have to talk about this Disney-fication of games.
This ruined WoW and now it's on the way to ruin God of War: Laufey (terrible name).
Modern designers seem to have an unquenchable desire to take epic stories with grit and then shove in cute animals, jelly cubes with millennial dialog, dancing sentient "ribbons" and colors dredged from rainbow vomit.
This feels like they never grew out of needing a safe space.
It feels like they are incapable of adult themes and problems and it feels like a total avoidance of adulthood and accountability.
And it's so off putting to see in a God of War game. You might as well have called it something else. It has zero ties aside from the name to the originals.
Stop taking games that are supposed to be about war and violence and gritty mythology and turning them into theme-park rides for 5 year olds.
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Thanks for all of your work. My advice to all coders is: do great work using the best tools available and ignore the haters and trolls.
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Been hearing about lots of games shutting down for financial reasons lately.
STL has been consistently updated and maintained for 4+ years because we treat every dollar with respect. No Twitter business account. No bought followers. No over-hired team. Every server cost scrutinized.
The infra bills I hear other studios pay genuinely make me cringe. And I say that as someone who was spending thousands a month on servers back in 2022-2024. With AI and a DigitalOcean Linux box, you can build and optimize seriously complex systems at scale for a couple hundred dollars a month.
Example - our upcoming authoritative netcode runs physics at 30 ticks/sec. We conservatively expect ~$4 per 200 concurrent FPS users. It is as simple as using LLMs to optimize for CPU usage while preserving functionality. Iterate. Test. Deploy.
Staying lean isn’t a genius strategy. You just have to stop spending on stupid shit and respect the dollar.
Hello Hytopians,
As many of you know from weekly updates, HYTOPIA is currently waiting on a large tax refund from the IRS. Without these funds, we are unable to continue covering the operational costs required to keep the project running in its current state.
We expected this refund to be resolved sooner, especially as we have been in communication with the IRS and have confirmed that the process is underway. In the meantime, our founders, @Temptranquil and @ArkDev, have been personally funding the project's operations for some time in an effort to keep things moving.
At this point, we are forced to temporarily pause HYTOPIA's infrastructure while we wait for the funds to be released. This means hytopia.com and other HYTOPIA-related websites and services will be taken offline for the time being in order to reduce hosting and operational costs.
Separately, our lack of operational funding has also contributed to an ongoing dispute with the HY Foundation regarding unpaid invoices. As a result, certain token-related deliverables are currently delayed while we work toward a resolution. We are actively working to settle on an amount that makes sense for both parties and to have the tokens released into the smart contracts they were originally intended for.
As a reminder, the HY Foundation is a separate entity from HYTOPIA. While we are actively engaged in resolving the matter, there are parts of this process that are not entirely within our direct control.
We currently expect downtime to last roughly 1–3 months while the IRS refund process is completed. Once the funds are received, we will provide another update with a clearer plan for next steps.
We understand this is difficult news, and we know it may create frustration, uncertainty, and concern within the community. We are doing everything we can to navigate this responsibly and transparently. For now, we ask that everyone take it day by day with us.
As always, your support means everything to us.
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