I am making the difficult decision to remove Dragonspire from Steam and disable access to the game service. Anyone who purchased Dragonspire can apply for a full refund using this link - https://steamproxy.com/steamstore/steam_refunds/ - I've also asked Valve if we can automatically refund everyone who bought the game and will follow-up if the answer is yes.

Why is this happening?

First, I don't feel we delivered on a game you should pay for. When we went live, our team did not anticipate the myriad of problems which occurred with our platform and technology. Our D1 retention for people here on launch was extraordinary, approaching 70%. However, that KPI quickly declined in the days that followed. Without stable servers, it's impossible to determine reasons for the decline - was it the server instability, lack of regional coverage, problems with the core game experience? In order to answer that question, we worked non-stop to solve our server issues with plans to expand regional coverage. However, we failed. That's not okay and we absolutely need to do better as developers. I am exploring new options for a stable platform, including third-party solutions. Unfortunately, it's a slow process and I don't want more people purchasing the game only to experience what you all have muscled through (did I mention you're the absolute best community ever? Because you are).

Second, we have exhausted our initial round of funding. This means paid team members who rely on us to support themselves and their families will need to move on to new opportunities, which I am helping facilitate. And it also means I cannot continue working on the game with a full team. There are a couple options left for us: (1) I can petition from our investor to let me continue to develop using the assets and agree to pay him back if I ever make any money from that work, or (2) I can wait for him to do well with his other studios and then take another shot when more capital is available - which our investor told me he would be open to, but obviously is far from guaranteed. I am a designer; not an engineer or an artist. Solo dev will be extremely challenging for me, but I am going to poke around over the coming months to see what I can learn and accomplish while I wind down the current business. In any event, I don't have much else lined up (risk of starting a business!) and I still believe in Dragonspire, so working toward possible solutions with all my free time makes the most sense.

I apologize for sharing this disappointing news. It's warmed my heart to be part of a supportive community and I feel awful for letting you down. Please be kind to everyone on development, this is a hard day for them. If you're a game developer and your studio is hiring, please reach out to me direct and I can share info on all our team members (we are located in the United States). If you would like to continue the gamedev journey with me, there is no better place than this Discord which we already call our home.

Thanks for your tremendous patience and kindness. I hope to have your support again in the future, wherever that may lead.

- Brian

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for your immense support so far! We would like to inform our players about a few important things regarding the current state of the game.


We are working on expanding our regional coverage for servers. For the time being, we apologize to players located in regions far away from our server and are doing our best to improve your experience.


There is an issue where players will hang on the loading screen for "Create a Private Room". When this occurs, please click "Cancel" and try again. This can be repeated numerous times in a row until the lobby starts up. Here's a clip of someone showing this method - https://clips.twitch.tv/FreezingAgreeablePicklesTTours-vtJ1xK4MJ-qylsLI



After going live, we have been encountering severe server instability. This will result in players having their health reset mid-run and their in-game HUD to break partially. We are working extremely hard on stabilizing our servers for the best experience possible!

We're aware of all of these issues and are working tirelessly to push out a fix for them. In the meantime, feel free to join our Discord - https://discord.gg/dragonspire where you can get more direct support from the dev team regarding issues and meet other players to group up with!

Thank you again for your support!

Greetings, Asterians! We hope you've been enjoying the demo so far! We've been watching you all play and hearing a ton of awesome feedback. We've decided to make some adjustments and will be pushing them through in a patch today! Thank you for all your support and we hope you continue to enjoy our demo!

GENERAL

• Player scaling enabled, 65%/100%/125% enemy HP (1/2/3 players)
  
• It IS possible to solo the demo now. Let's see who can pull it off!

HEROES

Breeze

• Charge Attack full charging duration increased to 1.5 seconds (from 1.3)
  
• R Skill damage scaling reduced to 1.35 (from 1.55)
  
• Q Skill ranged damage scaling increased to 0.8 (from 0.72)
  
• E Skill damage scaling increased to 0.36 (from 0.23)
  
• Design Notes — Breeze is doing well as a caster, but we want to shift some of the damage away from her R Skill and onto her other Skills. We also saw people weren't shooting the Q Skill, which does better damage, so we boosted the reward for players who can hit those shots.

Serena

• Combo Damage Scale increased to 4.13 (from 4)
  
• Charge Attack radius now scales up with each charge (25% per)
  
• Charge Attack fire duration increased to 0.5 seconds (from 0.35)
  
• Charge Attack full charging duration decreased to 2.0 seconds (from 2.6)
  
• Charge Attack damage scaling increased to 0.84 (from 0.72)
  
• R Skill cooldown reduced to 60 hits (from 72)
  
• Design Notes — Serena wasn't meeting our expectations. We have more changes planned for her in Early Access, but for now we are giving her some love to improve her Charge Attack, allow you to spin more often, and shifting some of her normal attack damage forward in her combo. Should feel much better, maybe even a bit OP. #SerenaSupremacy

Naomi

• Dash Attack damage scaling decreased to 0.15 per hit (from 0.2)
  
• R Skill cooldown reduced to 72 hits (from 90)
  
• Design Notes — Naomi is doing very well, but her R Skill cooldown was too long. To account for the effective DPS increase, we removed some damage from her Dash Attack. - She should feel mostly the same as before the patch, but with a bit more uptime on that R Skill.

UI

Gameplay HUD

• Dash ability icon updated to reflect cooldown.
  
• Character ability icon updated to show a white flash on enemy hit.

Hero Screen

• Hero models can be rotated after their animation finishes.

AUDIO

• Charge attack "charging" audio removed while we continue to work on a resolution for the "jump scare" bug.

BUG FIXES

• Fix to Desmo Revolving Misery ability (Big rotating beam of energy) targeter not cleaning up on death.

Join some of the developers as they answer questions asked on Social Media!

Join some of the developers as they answer questions asked on Social Media!