This game seems to have died. Looking in the "official" forums shows that there hasn't been activity in months. The front page hasn't been updated since 7/23. Too bad, l liked the promise of it, bought it, but am waiting for content updates to flesh it out.

1. Games take a lot of time to develop

2. Some developers are better at communicating with the community than others

3. Does the world need, yet another, Minecraft clone... with a twist?

Isn't that game being made by two people? Seems kinda hard with only two people...

@novis: I believe there were only two people at the beginning, but they hired extra help.

This is like a cross between Minecraft and Terraria but with more RPG elements (classes, skill trees), so sure.

Only you can't really modify the terrain in any way or build things of your own which is a realllll bummer.

@artelinarose: Whaaaaat?! I've just lost a ton of interest in this game. :(

Yeah, you get a REALLY neat world to explore but that's about it. The rest is just Korean MMO grinding.

Technically, this game isn't vaporware, as there is a released playable version, but for the purposes of this argument, yes.

The game hasn't been updated since July 23, and Wollay hasn't updated his twitter account since August 19. His interaction with the community since the alpha release has been scant to none. There are numerous threads throughout the internet asking if the game is dead, and the number of them keeps growing. Interest in the game since alpha release has almost completely died off.

When you release a game in alpha to the public for money, there is a huge expectation that you will invest all your time into the community. The developers of Cube World have failed in this regard, and their reputation is ruined. If the developers ever do decide to update the game and interact with the community, it will be almost impossible to regain previous levels of interest. That said, the game is dead.

Wow I was wondering about what happened to this game. I remember that there was a rush of hype for it the week it went on sale, and then nothing after that. Odd that there haven't been any status updates on it for a while.

My only experience with this game is paying for access, not being able to gain access, sending an e-mail to their support address and never hearing back from them. So yeah, I'm just guessing it's been abandoned.

I have sympathy with this being a two person team, but big disappointment.

It takes a few seconds to post an update on twitter. I went into a paid alpha with certain expectations that had been created by their website.

I've been in plenty of alphas and betas and I cant help feeling ripped off.

It even makes me question if they really were under DDOS attack at launch.