Open Beta extension + Steam Game Festival!
Hello to all wandering Lumia Island, GM Aesop here with some news.
We received a lot of feedback about ending the Open Beta; we’d love to allow everyone to play more, so we’ve decided to extend the Open Beta for a bit longer.
Open Beta has been extended until October 11th, 11 PM PST.
[h3]About the Steam Game Festival[/h3]
From October 7th 10 AM PST to the end of the Open Beta, Eternal Return will participate in the "Steam Game Festival".
As a part of the Game Festival, we will be hosting two developer Q&A streams on October 8th (3 AM PST for the Korean stream and 8 PM PST for the English stream). Following Steam guidelines, we will be conducting the Q&A as follows:
We received a lot of feedback about ending the Open Beta; we’d love to allow everyone to play more, so we’ve decided to extend the Open Beta for a bit longer.
Open Beta has been extended until October 11th, 11 PM PST.
- We may be lacking in some areas, but the development team is working hard to release the game on Early Access and will continue to work on hard!
- We are planning to do balance adjustments twice before Early Access, once on September 29th, and once on October 6th. We ask once again for your understanding as we may not be able to implement many bug fixes or feature improvements at that time.
- We will be closing the servers from October 11th, 11 PM PST to October 14th, 2 AM PST in order to transfer data and set up the new Early Access client. The game will not be available during that time, including Custom Games and other modes.
- Please note that customer inquiries and answers on Discord may be significantly slowed at that time.
- We will discontinue the Founder Pack from September 30th, but all characters will be available through the free rotation during the extension period. The free rotation will go back to normal at the start of Early Access.
- Our team is doing our best to match this schedule, but please note that Early Access may face a 2 to 3 week delay due to this extension. If delayed, however, we will extend the Open Beta accordingly.
- We are still discussing the final details of the release with Steam. The entire schedule may vary by a few days depending on Steam's requirements and policy.
[h3]About the Steam Game Festival[/h3]
From October 7th 10 AM PST to the end of the Open Beta, Eternal Return will participate in the "Steam Game Festival".
- The Steam Game Festival is an event that gathers all Steam games currently having a "Demo".
- We plan to open Europe and South American servers during the festival:
- Frankfurt (EU): 10 AM to 2 PM PST (7 PM to 11 PM CEST)
- São Paulo (South America): 3 PM to 7 PM PST (7 PM to 11 PM BRT)
- Frankfurt (EU): 10 AM to 2 PM PST (7 PM to 11 PM CEST)
- Along with the promotion the festival provides, we hope to gain attention for our Early Access release and qualify for more promotion within Steam thanks to that.
As a part of the Game Festival, we will be hosting two developer Q&A streams on October 8th (3 AM PST for the Korean stream and 8 PM PST for the English stream). Following Steam guidelines, we will be conducting the Q&A as follows:
- The theme for this Q&A is mid and long term goals for the development of Eternal Return. Please feel free to ask us anything you want concerning the content of the game.
- We will be receiving questions ahead of time, from September 28th, 6 PM PST to September 29th, 8 AM PST (write questions here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1049590/discussions/0/2942496178854183221/).
- Depending on the volume of questions, we may not be able to answer all of them and will likely not be able to answer questions asked during the stream.
- Any questions that deviate from the topic, such as the current balance of a particular character or item, can be asked in our Discord server.