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Crowfall is incoming medieval fantasy sandbox PvP MMORPG successfully kickstarted in March this year, more than doubling it's initial goal of $800k. For more details - a brief intro (with updates to the video below & pictures) can be found here - http://www.ign.com/wikis/crowfall

Game Overview (mostly made before and during Kickstarter campaign in March):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFIjHrwTe0w&feature=youtu.be

Since Kickstarter, the game accumulated almost 100 000 (yes, that's five zeros) registered followers, one quarter of which are backers. As a consequence - it's total budget just broke $6M, the development team grew up to 25 members and players are already, since August, pre-alpha testing combat. This is impressive speed of development, having in mind that Kickstarter campaign ended in late March this year.

There is no non-disclosure agreement (which is very unusual for so early game development) so streams and records of pre-alpha sessions are already available. Of course, the footage is still quite rough, buggy and unoptimized - including only four (out of thirteen) archetypes with partial skills and small number of players (~50) fighting on very small test maps.

Some pre-alpha test footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwhxA-RDNR8&feature=youtu.be&t=5467

Confessor (ranged fire DPS) animation test:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ms2F_G82I&feature=youtu.be

Game development behind the scenes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MkS2WyzVQM&feature=youtu.be

PS Feel free to ask anything you want to know, including info about the potential problems and downsides (I'll be dropping by to check this). For what it's worth, I tried to summarize these here - http://forums.mmorpg.com/discussion/comment/6754298/#Comment_6754298. Some enlisted remarks are legit concerns, some are based on ignorance or bias and OFC I can elaborate on any of them if need be.

Crowfall was just voted for "The most anticipated MMO" on MMORPG.com - http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/feature/10383/page/1?target=blank

Also, ArtCraft Entertainment just announced destruction, sieges and captures as the core of next (February) wave of tests - https://crowfall.com/en/news/founders-update-testing-2-0-siege-perilous/

Bad news is that the highly anticipated client-side control, expected to noticeably improve the responsiveness and fluidity of combat (currently 100% server-controlled) will not make it into current (December) series of tests, but to "compensate" - ACE will make a series of additional, Snap Tests in January with client-side control implemented.