Indie Developer Envision Studios Delays Minecraft MMORPG Hegemony Launch Date

Three-man independent development studio Envision Studios has just announced that they’ll be delaying the launch of their Minecraft MMORPG Hegemony by two weeks. The game was initially scheduled to come out this weekend but had to be pushed back due to “two major hitches”, the first being performance issues.

“This is purely on us. We did not start stress testing early enough and this is our responbility, we messed up. We were able to fix a lot of underlying performance issues in the last few days but to ensure a smooth gaming experience we decided to delay the release to make sure things are fine. Once again, sorry for this and it is entirely on us.

There are some underlying performance issues discovered over the last few days that have caused us to have to delay the release. Technically we could still release on our original release date but we want to make aboslutely sure the release is smooth for everyone.

As gamers ourselves, we personally know the frustration of disconnecting, server related issues, and game-breaking bugs and would rather take the flak for delaying rather than deliver a product that is broken and provides a fundamentally bad gaming experience due to performance related issues.”

The second major hitch is that two members of the three-man dev team have come down with fever and flu. “The workload and stress from the last week has caused me to run a fever today and Citymonstret today woke up with the flu,” says Lead Developer Hegemon. “Citymonstret also doubles as our Server Administrator alongside me which means that in the space of a day, we have lost 66% of our development capacity, and 100% of our server deployment capacity for the weekend.”

“One option was to get out the Cat o' Nine Tails and whip City into deploying this weekend (or even next weekend) but we'd rather not trade his health for the launch,” he adds. “So to give some leeway and also because I am quite busy at work next week, we're going to delay the launch by 2 weeks.”

Head over to the Hegemony official forums to learn more.