Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore Review In Progress - Maybe Wait On This One
Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore launched on Steam on May 1st, 2023, but it hasn’t been a smooth ride. The last time we met to talk about Ethyrial, I mentioned server lag and some bugs that were causing me a lot of stress during the beta. Unfortunately, when the team fixed one issue, ten more seemed to pop up.
If you’ve been keeping an eye on Ethyrial — there were so many issues with the game’s first launch that the crew over at Gellyberry made the call to relaunch the game on May 12th. My first foray into the world of Irumesa didn’t go so well, so I was relieved to hear that the team was taking a step back to set everything straight. The Ethyrial Discord was alive with activity and feedback and it felt like the developers were actually listening to the community. However, that enthusiasm would slowly start to wear away over the following week.
Launch day started off pretty optimistically. Well, for the most part. I encountered some issues with the login credentials for the press account because Steam replaced where we were previously able to enter in credentials manually. Thankfully, one of the developers was around and able to assist me through direct messages on Discord.
Our resolution came in the form of game time on my Steam account, as Team Gellyberry didn’t have a current fix for Steam replacing the manual login. It was a fresh start anyway so it wasn’t like I lost anything. Initially, everything seemed fine. After logging in for an hour or two and trying out a couple of classes at level 1, I decided to take a break since the servers were struggling with lag. I had some RL things to take care of and I figured launch day would be a little rough (what MMO launch isn’t?), so I decided to wait a day or two
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