Crusaders of the Lost Idols

Crusaders of the Lost Idols Dev Tracker




03 Mar

Comment

Originally posted by Cecil-Lokison

Hi Erika,

I have no questions, but I would like to express my gratitude for the service you have rendered in the past for my game enjoyment. I have been playing for about 6 years or so and I will continue to play till I have everything or the servers are shut down. You guys have kept the game interesting and real for me.

I had a funny feeling the death of flash would affect us eventually. I know some other companies shut their games down entirely and started new ventures. We are lucky to have what you are offering us.

I hope new games are possible for you guys, because I enjoy the style of play you offer. I don't really care for Idle Champions, though I have started playing it again.

Please accept my kind wishes for your personal future and of the rest of the crew. Have a full-filling life!

Cecil

Hi Cecil,

Thank you for being a part of our Crusaders journey as well. I'll share your feelings with the team. :)

Keep an eye on Codename socials for any announcements of new games in the future.

Cheers!

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Originally posted by Croq360

It's very sad to see Crusaders moving on into sunset mode. That being said, I'm really glad to hear that you will be keeping the servers running (even if there are no future updates).

I did have a question regarding content sales. I know in the past, you have participated in Steam sales and have put DLC and other things on sale from time to time. Will the content discount sales continue?

Definitely a roller coaster of emotions for sure, but yeah, no plans for shuttering the servers for as long as we're able to keep them up.

With the sunset and no new content, there will be no more sales on the DLC packs.

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Originally posted by mervinside

Hi Erika, thanks for all !

You don't want to sell the game, so I guess it's because you don't need money, nd then all the content will be free ?

Hi mervinside,

We're glad you've enjoyed Crusaders.

We just don't plan on selling the Crusaders code base.

Players will still be able to make real money purchases in the game as long as the servers are available, if they want to, and the DLC items will still be exclusive to the DLC. But the Challenge Token store will eventually get a player a lot of Golden Epics.

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Originally posted by Croq360

I think this would be an awesome idea to have Runic Grab Bags show up. Any chance those could also pop-up in one or more of the shops in some capacity?

That might be something we can look at as well. We'll see what we get done before the end.

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Originally posted by Haunting-Piano1360

How long ago did you take the decision to stop the support for COTLI ?

(thanks for the years of fun, i have 2200 hours)

Every year in Q1 we review the games to see how they're doing. This year we chose to do a more in-depth review of Crusaders. The whole review process took about 2 weeks of focused work for the company to come to the decision, and then some time to craft the announcement and sort out all the pieces included in that.

Thank you for being part of the Crusaders adventure. :)

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Originally posted by clear-chaos

Her tags are pretty nice so that’s fair. Fingers crossed Shir got that dragon skin.

I should have clarified; I was talking about the Yogcast unit recipes. They were all events right? I understand not adding the DB crew.

The Yogscast crew have recipes and gear missions. Depending on how many Crusaders are missing things, it might take a while for the RNG to make them show up for you.

They just don't have very many Golden Epics in the Challenge Token Store, since we only tried to give them those during the event running.

Comment

Originally posted by pastuso1

Hi Erika

First of all, to all Codename Entertainment folks : Thanks so much for all these years of fun. And a huge thank you Erika for being so receptive and close to the community, always kind and helpful

I wish you all the best

Have an awesome Thursday !!! :)

Hi pastuso1,

You're quite welcome. I'll pass it along to the team.

Have an awesome Thursday yourself! :)

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Originally posted by Darkliandra

Hi Erika,

There is 1 talent missing in the last row (middle column). Can we get something silly there, just for completion? It doesn't have to be a great buff even.

Hi Darkliandra,

I'm hoping to squeeze some talent updates in to the final content pushes, so we'll see what happens.

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Originally posted by Helpful_Ingenuity586

Hi Erika,

Thanks for making this great game, I spent 2387 days in it until now.

Now, that we are out of the beta phase, could you give the number v1.0 to the final version? Would be fitting.

Hi Helpful_Ingenuity586,

You're quite welcome. Definitely a lot of days on the game for sure.

I'll make a note and see if we remember to do that for the final push.

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Originally posted by abiel0530

So sad that this is all ending. Thank you for the 7 years, Erika and all the rest at CNE!

It definitely brings out the feelings. Thank you for being a part of our Crusaders adventure!

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Originally posted by jbroome

That code got me my level 10 fire on Mogra, thanks!

Oh nice, congrats!

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Originally posted by atxstranger

I want to say the decision to not entertain selling the game is disappointment stacked on disappointment. Obviously, money plays a big role in this decision and there seems to be an active community that wants to keep the game alive. CodeName obviously believes there is not enough community support, but selling the game assets to interested parties/community would help CodeName recoup some of their investment in the game.

That being said, thanks for all the fun. If anyone wants to make a different idle game, please let me know, I'd certainly be interested in trying something else out.

Thank you for playing Crusaders.

The company's focus will be Idle Champions for now, but keep an eye on Codename's social accounts for updates.

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Originally posted by wauzooligan71

Chat is known to flake out. Hope you come in sometimes after sunset and give chat a boot :).

Nick gets reports of chat getting stuck for the CNE launcher, so he'll be rebooting that one.

We'll take steps to have the Steam chat room get rebooted as well.

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Originally posted by TFahab

Sunsetting the game before it even gets out of beta? ;)

Thanks to you and the team for all the work over the years. I know there's a lot of frustration within the active community about how sudden it feels, but I'm also fairly sure that's far outside of your control.

Hehehe, we just haven't had a reason to make a new Steam build.

Thank you for being on the Crusaders journey with us over the years.

We've always said that live service would continue as long as it was supported. We're glad we're in a position where we can give the two months notice for the last content update instead of something more abrupt.

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Originally posted by mystic_dragon005

Thanks for the code and 2378 days of playtime I've went through. I was wondering what was the thought on skin amounts to be added since there was a potential list in mind from the survey? You mentioned winning skins and I wasn't exactly sure what tht meant.

Also, in rune grab bags it seems at least visually I've only seen up to 3 legendary (level5) when opening 5 bags at a time. is that just a glitch?

We're glad you've enjoyed Crusaders.

Kat went a bit overboard with the list of potential skins, but she wanted to see if there was any interest in giving those older Crusaders a skin over the newer ones.

So the top 3 skins that received the most votes from the community will be the ones we put into the skin shop with the March 17th update. The winners were pretty popular compared to the other choices.

Just a visual glitch. For some reason it doesn't display more than 1 of the level 5 rune, but you can double check in the play history entry for the runes added.

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Originally posted by PavelD100

Hi Erika, Thanks for 2308 days of great game! Are you keep Events alive to finally complete them? I skipped big bunch of them so I need these objectives.

Hi PavelD100,

You're quite welcome. We're glad you've enjoyed Crusaders.

Events will turn on automatically with their existing content, so if you do have objectives to complete, you'll be able to tackle them when you see the events come back.

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Originally posted by jetwbt

So long and thanks for the fish.

You're welcome. :)

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Originally posted by JuJuBee2006

Are runic grab bags guaranteed to give 1 level 5 rune, or is it only a chance? Used the code (big thank you btw), and got 3 level 5 runes from the 5 bags, the rest were level 4.

A bit bummed that the game will cease to receive updates, but the game had a pretty good run.

They are guaranteed to give the level 5 rune. It's just the results screen doesn't respect that for some reason. On the fix list.

You can check the entry in the play history to confirm all the level 5 runes were added.

It was definitely a hard decision, but it's been a great experience all around with Crusaders.

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Originally posted by dbmcgrew

I would love to be able to replay objectives (campaign and event) for another chance at earning the related achievements. Allowing this shouldn't require new content.

Thanks for CotLI. I'll keep playing it as long as I can. But ICotFR doesn't really appeal to me.

While it would be cool, we don't plan on making objectives repeatable.

You're welcome for Crusaders.

We don't expect all players to move to Idle Champions, but we wanted to give those who choose to try it out again a little boost with the various codes on offer.

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Originally posted by kittymug

Hi Erika,

Sad news, but I think in hind sight the game was actively maintained for much langer than I would have expected.

Thanks to you and the team (new and old) for keeping it going as long as you have. For 'just a small simple game' this one has brought me hours, days, maybe even months of fun over the years.

2 final questions for you then. Can you share anything about what is next for you after the sunsetting? At this time, what do you consider to be the top 5 QoL enhancements that the community is looking for? I recognize that all of this is not likely to make it into the final update, just curious about your perspective on this topic.

All the best to you and team.

Hi kittymug,

We're glad you've enjoyed the Crusaders journey. I'll pass it along to the team.

Kat and Wilson will be moving to fill in the artist and developer positions we have available on Idle Champions, though Wilson will check on the emails into crusaders@codename when he can. I'll be moving on to something else.

The requests with the highest percentage of votes from the survey are the current top priorities, along with some tweaks to the infinite rewards to make season 7 point collecting appealing.

Cheers!