Our position on the official sunset

Nothing is released while the official servers are online. This entry is the position in full, and what happens on the day they close.

While the official servers are online

Open World stays in development, in the open. Development notes, test session reports and questions keep flowing on the Discord and here on the dev blog, but nothing is downloadable.

• No launcher, server host or other downloads.
• No public binaries and no forks of the source.
• Test sessions continue, on private builds.

On the day they close

The order was agreed before development started, and it is fixed:

1. The full source is pushed to the public git.
2. The launcher and the server host are released.
3. The vetted server list opens for community servers.

No public launch while the official servers are online.

A private server scene while the game is live splits the community and invites trouble we do not want. The position has not changed since the first dev blog entry.