As we near the end of beta after so many soons and eventuallys and somedays by yours truly, I would like to take this time to thank you the players and the dev team for sticking with this thing for so long.
It has been a long long road since the first day I fired up the toolset and first created the city of Neversummer and put it on the pw-action for people to log on so I could throw monster at them. After that it was just add on after add on and people flooded in, in droves and never stopped.
Then came the hardware and the bandwidth and the NS2, Ns3, Ns4 and the rest is history.
We have had a lot of different devs come and go to the team and alot of players come and go and come back and and go and come back and go and come back etc etc. It seems alot of you are like me and see some shiney precious game over the horizon and go play it for a few weeks and realize that it was a mirage and come back (head hung) to your real home every time lol. Im guilty of this as big as anyone, but it does keep me fresh full of new ideas.
As for the future of Neversummer 4, this is by no means the end.
We have the best group of devs we have ever had. These guys kick [censored] on a dialy bases and put out higher quality work then even the big game studios could hope to do (and yes I try and talk them into doing other games all the time but they refuse of course)
Dev work on Neversummer 4 will continue full speed ahead until the release of NWN2 which at that point we will take a look at doing a Codenamed Neversummer 5 project or a conversion of Neversummer4 to that or some fasion etc. When that happens, which could be this fall ev work on Neversummer4 will slow down to probbaly half of what it is. It will not stop however because the NS5 project will be slow going and the team will still have time to work on both until that new project is on line.
I will continue to run the NS4 server as long as there are players.
I will run a NS5 server as will once we develop it and we may do multiple version of it similiar to ns3.5 (no clue yet) NS3.5 will also continue to run as long as it has players so fear not.
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Again. Thank you for playing and making it all worth it. Every artist has his one masterpiece in life and I consider the Neversummer project mine. It wouldnt be what it is with out all of you making it what it is.
DeputyDog
AKA
Gabriel McEver
Founder
http://www.nsrealm.com
http://www.mcever.com
