Wurm Online’s Game Chest Group Reports Q2 Profit Loss But Says They’re Right On Track w5p5z

2023 hasn’t been good to Game Chest Group, the owner of Wurm Online developer Code Club, with the company seeing negative profits for Q2 2023. The company’s quarterly financial report shows a total revenue of 1.6 million SEK (roughly $175,000), a slight increase from the $1.5 million that it raked in over the same period last year but wasn’t quite [...]

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Wurm Online Developers Are Reportedly Leaving Game Chest Group In Droves 3811j

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Game Chest Group’s acquisition of Code Club isn’t going as smoothly as both parties had hoped. According to hundreds of leaked internal communications, developers are leaving the studio in droves, citing an “overwhelmingly negative workplace culture” as the reason for their departure. Game Chest has yet to confirm the leak but its CEO Krister Elmgren did reveal that at least [...]

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Wurm Online Announces Rebranding And New In-Game Cash Shop 2v5u3p

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Major changes are on the horizon for Wurm Online as the long-running MMORPG prepares to undergo a rebranding this summer. Game Chest Group CEO revealed that they’ve been working to give the fantasy sandbox a “fresh, vibrant, and memorable identity” and will be unveiling the fruits of their labor at the end of June, complete with a new website and [...]

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Code Club Will No Longer Be Deleting Inactive Wurm Online s 623a4k

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While deleting inactive s isn’t typically done in MMOs, there’s always the fear that you might lose all your progress should you take a break for an extended period of time. Fortunately, that’s one less burden on the minds of Wurm Online players as Code Club announces that it’ll no longer be deleting dormant s from here on end. “Historically, [...]

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Real-Money Trading Has Officially Been Banned In Wurm Online 2o34r

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Bad news for real-money traders in Wurm Online. RMT has officially been disabled in the classic MMORPG as of March 1st. Code Club has also published a few ground rules related to RMT, which is now against the rules, and how offenders will be handled going forward. “We know this change may take some time to get used to but [...]

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Wurm Online Says Recent Elevation And Launcher Changes Were A Success, Annual Summer Friend-A-Long Event Now Live 3yo6g

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Earlier this month, Code Club introduced a number of major changes to Wurm Online including a server reset, a revamped Elevation Map, and an updated launcher. The team has been evaluating these changes over the past weeks and, according to a forum post last Friday, everything’s running perfectly. “The elevation reset has seen a lot of action and plenty of [...]

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Wurm Unlimited Launches On Steam 726t5

The offline and private server version of Wurm Online, Wurm Unlimited, is now live on Steam. The game launched today after the brief pre-order phase for $29.99. Players can now buy the game and start up their own servers for Wurm with their own settings for skill gains, action timers, and more. Wurm Online and Wurm Unlimited are planned to [...]

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Does Open World Housing Actually Work? 4p1x3e

In sandbox games one feature that seems to be held in particularly high regards is open world housing. The idea that in a seamless world players can just walk out of their house and go about their daily hunting is uniquely fascinating. However, I often find myself wondering if it really works. Between land rushes and empty shells of houses [...]

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Wurm Unlimited Brings Wurm Online To A Local Setting 446z66

With the abundance of survival games and Minecraft clones out there, it should come as no surprise that the team at Code Club, ed by publisher Plug In Digital, decided to bring Wurm Online to a more local setting. And yet, here I am, shocked at this near-unprecedented move of taking an MMO and carbon copying it for serverless play. [...]

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Wurm Online Elevation Servers Go Live 1m4a4k

Now is the time to stake your claim, as Wurm Online's Elevation server went live today.   Due to much community criticism, the Elevation server has been taken down and re-generated to be released with a clean slate. Below is a view of the newly generated map. You can check out the official announcement here.

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