Relax, in a few months artificial intelligence will do the work for us, maybe claude opus 4.5, if well orchestrated and instructed, will be able to do the reverse engineering now.
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and it's the first time in years, in decades of toribash that I've seen Sir answer someone like that xD
Many may be thinking that because the main developer leaves the game, it may actually close. But we have to think about many things too, of course, let's not ask things that we know we'll never get an answer to. But why did Sir. really leave? I believe that if the reason is not really that Nabi went bankrupt and was unable to pay him. It may be that at some point another developer plans to continue the work, and this may come with pros and cons, as we will have another mind orchestrating the game, other ideas, other changes. But anyway, the game is beautiful, and it was good when it lasted, and it will be good if it lasts longer.
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But I'm going to leave one question in your mind now: who is really in control of the game right now? I mean, specifically, the person responsible.
We know that Toribash is owned by Nabi Studios, but how many people actually work at Nabi Studios today?
Matarika? Hampa?
Who can click the button to shut down the server or restart it if it goes down today?
Is the game still being monitored directly by Hampa until they find another developer or decide to shut everything down altogether? Or is it a Nabi employee?
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and it's the first time in years, in decades of toribash that I've seen Sir answer someone like that xD
Many may be thinking that because the main developer leaves the game, it may actually close. But we have to think about many things too, of course, let's not ask things that we know we'll never get an answer to. But why did Sir. really leave? I believe that if the reason is not really that Nabi went bankrupt and was unable to pay him. It may be that at some point another developer plans to continue the work, and this may come with pros and cons, as we will have another mind orchestrating the game, other ideas, other changes. But anyway, the game is beautiful, and it was good when it lasted, and it will be good if it lasts longer.
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But I'm going to leave one question in your mind now: who is really in control of the game right now? I mean, specifically, the person responsible.
We know that Toribash is owned by Nabi Studios, but how many people actually work at Nabi Studios today?
Matarika? Hampa?
Who can click the button to shut down the server or restart it if it goes down today?
Is the game still being monitored directly by Hampa until they find another developer or decide to shut everything down altogether? Or is it a Nabi employee?
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Originally Posted by sir
Would you rather have unrealistic expectations of what's going to happen? All multiplayer games eventually shut down, there's no way around it. Toribash will follow that route, too.
I never said Toribash is shutting down tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, I just tried explaining how things work. Reaffirming people that you can keep Toribash somehow alive by backing up player textures and forum attachments would be lying on my side because I know that just isn't true. In my opinion, people doing that would only waste their time and end up with a bunch of files they can't really do much with aside from keeping on their drive for memory's sake. Same goes for the hope that someone would be able to reverse engineer and put together at least bits of the required infrastructure to bring servers back on their own. That just won't happen unless you'd stumble upon some sort of a savant willing to build you a whole ass game for a pack of beer.
It may sound harsh to you but I am pretty certain barely anyone in this thread has any real idea of how multiplayer games operate, what the expenses are and so on. Which, to be clear, is completely fair as I wouldn't expect people who just play games to have a deep understanding of how things work under the hood - but it's always weird to me how a lot of gamers just assume some wild shit and then act offended when someone explains to them why those assumptions are false.
Also sorry, but I don't believe I own anyone any explanations neither on my job situation nor Nabi internal affairs. I've worked for the company for over 10 years, I'm grateful to hampa for the opportunity and it's been a fun ride overall. Unfortunately, it's come to an end and I haven't really been a Nabi employee since October.
That’s fair, and I get why you don’t want to go into job stuff or internal details. Not trying to push on that.
More just curious from a high-level perspective: from what you’ve seen, is Toribash basically in a “no active development unless something changes” phase now, or is there at least an intention on Hampa’s side to bring someone in down the line if the right situation comes up?
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This is the best ever tbh. Let's turn to ChatGPT to save the game! Have faith, my brother.
