Crema Games Reveals That Temtem Patch 1.8 Will Be Its Last Feature Update
It’s barely been a week since s temporarily locked down the due to toxicity over the release of the standalone spinoff, Temtem Swarm, and the drying up of new content for the original MMO. Now, it looks like things are about to heat up again as Crema Games announces the impending end of feature updates for the Pokémon-inspired creature battler.
Temtem will apparently be feature-complete by Patch 1.8, including those promised during the Kickstarter campaign, and will mark the end of active development on the game. This is despite Crema Games CEO Enrique Paños Montoya’s insistence that more updates are in the pipeline, which is technically true, they just won’t include new features.
The good news is that microtransactions will be disabled with Patch 1.7’s release in early June. Players with remaining currency will still be able to use them to purchase Tamer es and cosmetics but they’ll also have the option to pay with Feathers instead. Starting in Patch 1.8 players will also be able to select previous Tamer reward tracks to unlock their respective rewards.
Crema Games defends their decision to end feature releases by clarifying that Temtem was always meant to be an MMO-lite and that they simply settled on labelling it as an MMO due to the lack of appropriate tag. As such, they inadvertently set expectations of a live service game that they ittedly can’t and won’t be able to live up to.
“From the get-go, we at Crema have described Temtem as an MMO-lite; this was our desired tag from the beginning, and the one we would have used across all our platforms had it been possible,” the studio explained. “Due to the lack of this tag we settled for the closest one, which is MMO, as we believe Temtem is massive, multiplayer, and online, with all players from any part of the world, on any platform, coexisting on one sole global server, and with a unified economy that encomes every player.”
“We understand now that seeing the game being called an MMO everywhere led to expectations that we have failed to fulfill,” they added. “It started with the use of the MMO tag on our Steam page, which was then followed by our publisher, the press, and the general public. While Temtem does fit the MMO bill in our eyes, we understand it does not in everyone’s eyes, and that we should’ve acted quicker to curb this trend. We apologize for the confusion this might have caused to some players.”
There’s no timeline for Patch 1.8’s release but, judging from past update releases, we expect it to arrive by the end of the end of the year. There’s also Temtem Swarm to keep you occupied, assuming that it doesn’t crash and burn like Temtem Showdown before it.
