Yowch: Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime announces layoffs at his new company Dreamhaven
That was pretty much your only shot of ever getting a real Blizzard game again. There’s no one left at the old company Blizzard who just hired all new people and call them “Blizzard” for 5-7 years.
I really wanted these guys to do well. I had nothing against them and some people I really liked worked there.
These numbers are just insane. There were more people playing a flash/web based game than these numbers. There were more people playing the Pirates of the Carribbean mobile game 5 years later.
You have to add all 3 games together to get to 2,000 players.
Sunderfolk, developed by Dreamhaven’s Secret Door studio, was critically well received but amassed a peak concurrent player count on Steam of just 890; Wildgate, released a couple months later, achieved a peak of 7,799 concurrent players, but that figure has since declined to just over 500 right now.
Dreamhaven also published Lynked: Banner of the Spark, developed externally by FuzzyBot, which currently has a 24-hour peak concurrent player count of just 11,