Launching in early entry in 2020 and getting its full launch a few years later, Crema’s Pokemon-like RPG Temtem has been round for some time now, however the developer has introduced that it’s ending improvement of future content material on the sport quickly.
In a prolonged open letter revealed on its web site, Crema explains why it hasn’t been ready so as to add new content material to Temtem on the pace and within the method than many within the playerbase have wished it to. In a nutshell, it boils all the way down to the numerous balancing work the developer must do on massive parts of the sport anytime someday new is added in.
“We didn’t create Temtem with the concept of increasing its limits eternally: after we created the Kickstarter web page we had a transparent aim of 141 minimal Tems (we ended with 165), and 6 islands (we ended up making the Pansun one other zone),” Crema writes. “As such, the bases of the sport aren’t inbuilt a method they’ll assist countless content material, and as extra content material will get added, the sport dangers changing into extra sophisticated, with completely different programs and variables having to be accounted for with every replace, and buggier. This can be a idea referred to as technical debt, which roughly means we get indebted to the event selections we made after we have been simply giving beginning to Temtem. Over the course of the years of improvement, the debt has grown each time we’ve tried to implement unplanned options, or each time we reworked an present characteristic with out correct planning. Something you add to a sport that wasn’t included in its bases, and something you modify on the go, provides to the technical debt of stated sport.”
Trying forward, then, Temtem’s subsequent replace, patch 1.7, would be the sport’s closing “regular sized” replace, bringing a brand new season, a brand new Tamer Move, stability adjustments, new options, bug fixing, and high quality of life updates. Following that, patch 1.8 would be the sport’s closing “feature-oriented patch” and might be targeted on “guaranteeing the sport’s longevity, with a deal with bettering the customers’ expertise”. There’ll, nevertheless, be no extra new Tamer Passes or seasons going ahead.
In the meantime, microtransactions are additionally being dropped fully. Replace 1.7 will take away the choice to buy Novas (the sport’s premium forex), although any Novas you’ve already bought will nonetheless be usable on the Tamer Move and cosmetics within the in-game store. All gadgets which can be purchasable with Novas, in the meantime, can even turn into purchasable utilizing Feathers, which is earned by means of gameplay.
Along with that. when patch 1.8 comes alongside, it would permit gamers to return to any and all the older Tamer Passes at any given time and full them at your leisure, which can embody with the ability to unlock their previously-paid tiers utilizing Feathers.
So what lies forward for Crema now that Temtem is approaching the top of its lively lifecycle? Properly, although the studio says it isn’t able to develop a full-fledged sequel fairly but, it has confirmed that it’s engaged on one other new, unannounced sport within the Temtem universe.
