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Title: Dungeon Runners is shutting down.
Post by: Ratman_tf on September 16, 2009, 07:58:16 PM
http://www.dungeonrunners.com/news/current_news/dungeon_runners_is_shutting_do.html

I barely have an opinion. I remember it as the game Sly was playing that had silly jokes and wasn't a MMOG.


Title: Re: Dungeon Runners is shutting down.
Post by: UnSub on September 16, 2009, 08:08:10 PM
Not surprising. It was already working with a skeleton crew after NCsoft chopped the original team from something like 21 to 5 people.

The devs on this were hilarious in some of their comments in beta. I'll always remember one dev posting something like, "Big boss man hasn't made it into work today - too hung over to find his way out of the gutter" on the beta boards in a response to some comment that the devs weren't posting on the boards after New Years.

Sadly, the game was a bit ordinary.


Title: Re: Dungeon Runners is shutting down.
Post by: Mrbloodworth on September 17, 2009, 06:28:14 AM
That is a shame. I thought it was a good fun game in bouts. They did good work on this title considering the constraints (It was originally an RTS game engine) and budget they had. I am sure at least some people proved you can make a decent game with hand me down tech and a shoestring budget.

I hope all the team members land of their feet.


Title: Re: Dungeon Runners is shutting down.
Post by: rattran on September 17, 2009, 10:32:03 AM
It was a fun little game, I'm sad to see it go. The jokes and such were intentionally corny, yet still amused me enough that I bought a 6 month sub box, and got a few other people to do so. No one played more than occasionally, and still found it worth the $20.


Title: Re: Dungeon Runners is shutting down.
Post by: Yegolev on September 17, 2009, 10:50:59 AM
I might have played this more if Mythos was not around.


Title: Re: Dungeon Runners is shutting down.
Post by: Merusk on September 17, 2009, 02:09:23 PM
I played this for a good month and a half and it was fun initially but quickly got tedious and then just frustrating.    I can't say that I'm shocked they never managed to pull themselves over into "Just let it go and make money" land.


Title: Re: Dungeon Runners is shutting down.
Post by: Slyfeind on September 18, 2009, 05:43:18 PM
I had fun with it occasionally, but it certainly wasn't the kind of game you really got into. I've always hoped small, quick games like this could be more successful.