Our latest coverage of the repopulation.
The Repopulation, a sci-fi sandbox MMO that raised funds on Kickstarter, experienced a massive setback earlier this year when the third-party studio contracted by Idea Fabrik to work on it quit the project cold turkey that was followed by a prolonged silence from the development team. If you’re a long-time reader, you might remember that Idea Fabrik took over the [...]
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Kickstarted sandbox MMORPG The Repopulation is shutting down after lingering in early access for over eight years. The announcement comes from TGS Tech, a third-party contractor that current ownder Idea Fabrik pawned the game off to with the task of both resolving the various issues that riddled it and maintain live service operations. TGS revealed that they had a falling-out [...]
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It’s been a full year since we last heard from Idea Fabrik and its Early Access Star Wars Galaxies-inspired sandbox MMO The Repopulation. The last we heard from the studio was when they released their fall 2021 development roadmap for the game. According to MassivelyOP, there have been just three major development updates since then, with the last dev update [...]
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The Repopulation, a crowdfunded MMORPG that most gamers assumed for dead, is apparently still alive and kicking after HeroEngine developer Idea Fabrik assumed ownership of the game from indie studio Above and Beyond in 2017. The latest news is that the new owners are still hard at work injecting their own ideas into the game. “This has been quite the [...]
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Earlier this month, indie-developer IF Studios revealed the details of a new tutorial zone called the Island coming to their in-development sci-fi sandbox MMORPG, The Repopulation. The island was supposed to roll out within the month but was continually delayed as the developers hit one issue after another. The studio now says that they’re ready to roll out the first [...]
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The Repopulation Monthly Dev Update just came out earlier this week, on April Fool’s Day no less. Don’t worry, Idea Fabrik assured fans that they won’t be pranking anyone but did tease that they had “a few tricks and treats” squirreled away for later. First up on the March Update agenda is the status of the ongoing server updates: “New [...]
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Server wipes are a touchy subject for any online gamer. No one wants to see their hard-earned gold, gear, weapons, and skills disappear in the blink of an eye. But, there are cases when starting from scratch is absolutely necessary. In the case of upcoming MMORPG The Repopulation, the launch servers will be different from the current test servers so [...]
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Remember when Idea Fabrik, the new owners of The Repopulation, told us that the game's first major patch since relaunch "won't be any time really soon?" Fortunately, it turns out that that's not entirely true. The company announced yesterday that said patch "should be coming in about 5 weeks." While it's not an entirely long time to wait, the reasons [...]
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The Repopulation is back and development has resumed, but not all is well in the game's sci-fi world. The game's return has brought with it several major issues, including "zoning/transition issues," that have set the first major patch since relaunch back quite a bit. The announcement explains the issues as follows. There is a bit of bad news: The first [...]
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It feels like it's been ages since I first started keeping up with The Repopulation, way back in the days before it was even open to the public and the promise of sandbox gameplay with a housing system was what had intrigued me. After several years of development, the company developing it, Above and Beyond Technologies, ran a successful Kickstarter [...]
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