Temtem Drama Ends? Devs Apologize, Battle Pass is GONE, A NEW Temtem Game in the Works and More! 

The adverts for the game referred to Temtem as a MMO. On Steam it's described as "a massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure." The foundations of the game are as an always online live-service so their intentions are clear. This letter just states that it's OUR fault for misunderstanding them. They are gaslighting us at this point.

Crema really should just make an offline server for TemTem. That would curb some of the backlash.

If they dont want it to be an mmo then why did they make it an mmo? Why not settle for 4 player co-op or smth...

The Kickstarter does NOT say the scope is not at the MMO scope. It mentions nothing about MMO Lite. It DOES say "Massively Multiplayer" and "Online" MULTIPLE times. Also the fact they decided maling new content for their live service game "wouldnt bring back players" despite that very thing being what players saying is what *would* bring them back and are telling potential new players that is the biggest con about starting TemTem all without actually trying or seemingly even polling their fanbase is ludicrous. Especially when the 2 biggest things that definmade me deice NOT to return and NOT to support anything crema does is 1). No new content on a live service game & no new mons on a monster taming game. and 2.). The absolute Crema had a meltdown, doubled down about it, did a "RU-vidr Quality" apology, lied, continously blame the players for the failures of Crema and TemTem, and findamentally not knowing how to make a sucessful MMO (or MMO-Lite or whatever), how to make a a successful monster tamer game, or how to make a game and game community that gives a rats ass about it's players. Congrats to Crema, not releasing content and alienating fans is definitely how you NOT bring back players. I hope Crema never releases a successful game again. Nobody should support them. 😤

My issues with this post, and Crema as a whole. 1: They claim that they called Temtem an "MMO-lite" from the get-go, but the screenshot they include literally says "Last Update june 25th". Now this could have been there from the start, could have not been. What we can say for sure is that it was at least there on June 25th... Minimum 1 month after the kickstarter went up which means A LOT of people already pledged. 2: They make A LOT of claims of how it's "impossible" for them to make certain changes, improvements, etc. Claims that we have no way of confirming. We have to take them at their words here, which is a privilege Crema has completely thrown away. Not to mention that if they are telling the truth about those claims, why do they also have to throw in the "we want Temtem to not be p2w" reason as to why they don't make DLC when people have already given them ways to work around that. I thought the reason was because it was structurally impossible? 3: They apologize A LOT in this post, but then they don't proceed to do anything the players are asking for. The only thing that they are doing is removing paid cosmetics, but they are also removing more or less all the reasons why they would need to have money coming in (new content). It feels weird to apologize but then don't change anything. 4: Shifting blame, excuses, shifting blame, excuses. They are shifting their blame on other platforms, companies, and people. It's not their fault it got advertised as an MMO, it's their partners. It's not their fault they put the MMO tag on, it's the platforms for not having the tag they would have liked. Crema can never just own up to a mistake, they have to shift blame on others. They have also made up this narrative in their head that "players are asking for infinite content forever" which is completely false. People are asking for a live-service game to keep getting updates, that is completely normal. The issue is that Crema makes updates that people are generally not that interested in. They allocate their resources to stuff that, again, people are not interested in. If after 1.0 Crema put their efforts into making a new island with new Tems instead of whatever the fuck they have been doing they would have seen A LOT more people come back and play, but according to them this is not possible. But then they also refuse to make the game offline. If the game is offline the community could make their own updates to the game and share between each other (you know like the Pokemon community does), but no this goes against what Crema wants as well. Imo this is just more Crema bullshit. They are trying to "clear their name" because they probably realized that they have made such an enemy of the community that it will haunt them for future games. Crema has used up all their goodwill of their players, and it's going to be hard to earn back.

"We HEARD you talking about things you wanted as a community" They heard us, they just didn't do anything about it though. Sad that there was such a disconnect. Had multiple instances of Devs being rude in their discord or steam discussions as well. Temtem couldn't succeed during a time where we got Pokemon Scarlet and Violet which ran at 10FPS. A shame.

My understanding was that there was to be way more content added and I believe this channel covered it. The way they are handling it is what is making people mad they are gaslighting people and were being condescending. If they don’t have the money they don’t have the money don’t be jerks and we won’t be jerks

Crema is basically making excuses for their own incompetence and mismanagement. They're rushing off to create other games so they can have another source of income. Their statement about tags on Steam is also bull. You can add a custom tag so they could have simply added their own tag saying MMO-lite. Instead, they went with the better marketing strategy: picking a popular genre they could get away with claiming their game was until players called them out for it.

It’s important to know that they are only doing this to salvage sales on their new game because they are staring down the barrel of financial disaster. And they keep saying that they won’t keep supporting the MMO so buy Swarm please. And yet they still don’t get no one wants that. They want you to do the things you refuse to do which is support your main franchise. If you won’t sell the IP so someone can and get out of the game development business. I hope the community holds the line and doesn’t buy swarm to send the message clearly to them that disregarding your IP and community has repercussions. Even if it leads to the end of the game it’s a message to all future developers that gamers are starting to get smarter to these MTX live service cash grabs that refuse to be live service.

if they lower the damn ingame cost of the cosmetics(not the microtransaction ones) Id might play but between the awful leveling up evolution system and not being able to buy any clothes i stopped playing after about 6 hours.

It just reminds me of that pistachio ice cream scene from Spongebob. "I dont want it to be an MMO!" "Then why did you make it one?"

I don't care about MMO support, I care about everything being so expensive because muh economy. Charging for fast traveling, for real.

I was one of the stress test players back on the discord when the game was still early access. I remember a moment when the Crema Team had to to take the server down because they had being testing and fixing the sever for 12 hours straight and had to eat take out in the office. You could really feel the excitement and joy in the team via their message's on discord to the community on how the test was going so far and how happy they where with the player base being here with them. I feel I need to bring this up to show how strong the community felt about the Crema Team as a whole and that, THIS LETTER IS NOT from the "Crema Team" but reads as if straight from the CEO's mouth and it comes of like he hates TemTem community just like he proved before. More then half this letter has a question about new content for the game that's followed with "we can't do this because it cost money." just read how many times "technical debt" comes up when asked about new content. It just reads like he HATES having to put more money into this game that he views as complete his "MMO Lite" to the point where you question if the game had made the cash would he be so mad at the fans? would the technical debt matter as much then? I think the part that piss me of personally are the parts where when ask why not add new islands and Tems to this "MMO Lite" game we get "We didn’t create Temtem with the idea of expanding its limits forever." and "Anything you add to a game that wasn’t included in its bases, and anything you change on the go, adds to the technical debt of said game." like it's our fault that we ask for new content in a online game "The Crema of the past, who designed Temtem to be a finite, yet endlessly enjoyable online world, and this prevents us from being able to expand its limits to the points where everyone would be satisfied." What is prevents you form expanding your limits? it's $ btw as that's all the CEO cares about in this letter proves.

It's funny how they are gaslighting people to shift the blame from themselves to the community and some people are already falling for that, this statement just proves two things: incompetence and mismanagement. They gave a lot of excuses which people suggested alternatives in the past two years and even some devs acknowledged but they still will never try to implement, people said since 1.0 that they would drop the game on the instant they finished the kickstarter goals, which they are doing, all of the "content" that they point out it was added into the game are minor content that were mostly released on 1.0, which should also have all the Kickstarter goals to begin with, the game was basically in a early access until the last Kickstarter goal drops. They are talking like if we should drop on our knees and be grateful that they did their jobs as a game studio that used the "massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure" marketing a lot to justify a lot of things but didn't fulfill anything related to a live-service game, in their own statement they contradict themselves and is just basically a huge excuse of "We are dropping the game because we want to make a sequel and we probably can make more money with the sequel". DLC is pay-to-win? People suggested ways around that. Expansion don't make sense with the lore? And what about the sequel them, how would this make sense with lore? And finally they made this narrative in their head that "players are asking for infinite content forever" or that "players would not come back with new Tems/Islands and would not be worth to develop them" which is completely false. Their own metrics don't make sense since while they are doing nothing there is less and less player retention, and the 1.0 showed that new content will bring a lot of new players.

"Its not MMO but you ALWAYS need to be online and you DO see a lot of people online" -Crema, the id1ots Shouldve just kept it solo player...like Palworld...

if they didn't wanna call it a fucking MMO and wanted to clarify this shit they could have stepped in on both forums and their own discord server when me and others like me complained about the EXP and Pansun grind back when Kisiwa was fresh and people literally said it is done intentionally to grow an "MMO economy". this is why I expect this game to do proper live service updates: they had a fucking battle pass and they designed a lot of mechanics around being an MMO outside of being always online. don't fucking gaslight me Crema then quietly throw your game in the trashcan because you got called out.

I am sorry. As a person who was around during the kickstarter, various alphas,etc. The narrative for an MMO lite was largerly scoffed at by the devs. Before the alpha was done, there were pages of post from the team promising the moon. Doing so just to justify the high price point future non alpha/beta player would have to pay on launch. Many players felt if the game was considered just a solo game with few online features then a smaller price point would be fine. Everyone wins. They made it clear that new big island content would be a regular thing and would justify the higher initial price point and the battle pass. They listed feature after feature after feature that was coming. Most of which was never delivered. The player base largely, and rightfully, felt scammed and left. They saw few were playing and fewer were liking. So they hard pivoted away to different project. Make. No. Mistake. Crema is a small Spanish company that wants AAA prices and spending from its players. They, in return, are a small indie team and have no ability to produce the amount of content they are charging for. 20 Dollars worth of barely AA content for 60-70$ plus 10-15$ battle pass. No. I am done with Crema.

Ya they really made it seem like this was going to be a long term live service game with continuous updates, than only pushed battlepasses with cosmetics and almost no real content. saying its a story driven more solo game just doesnt fit with the way the game presents itself. Huge miscommunication on their part if this was the always the plan

Any online only game is either an mmo, or a game wanting to monitize like one. Their only two options if they want to save their rep are add an offline mode, or maintain their game like an mmo

So just think about it this way what would have been added outside the kickstarter goals & demands from the community? an empty ass game with super long grinds. past 1.0 when everything was supposed to be dropped..... there would be nothing. you cannot say ohh we did all this stuff you required, its cause of these add ons that we are unable to make more content. they were literally ok with the game updates being delayed over & over cause it just let them string along players for longer allowing their mtx store to keep going.... they never planned to create content past the kickstarter goals in the first place, but kept the mmo tag & kept telling players the mtx funds were being put back into the game....well apparently not...cause the game is not getting any sort of new content & is being dropped lmfao they have 0 respect

they sure exploded in a different way than palworld

Im just glad that they finally oficially admitted that the game is dead. We no longer have to huff the copium.

Crema lost my support for life. They could make the greatest monster taming game ever conceived and I'm out.

I like to interview the people behind the game. Because they’re just making excuses in the apology

This newsletter screams gaslighting. Geez I feel bad for TemTem fans having to deal with a developer like this

Telling the consumer of your product "you're all wrong and we're right" is just horrendous PR. It seems they want all the advantages of an online service game without putting in the work. This feedback just seems to say they didn't think out how to manage and profit off this while keeping their user base engaged / coming back.

No sympathy from me. They made an MMO and started complaining about having to make content for it… while apparently working on at least two separate projects in the same universe. Talk about not knowing what they’re doing.

I appreciate your coverage of the whole situation. Much better info than I can find through their reddit and I don't have the time to sift through all the sources in my limited time. Thank you.

I just want my offline mode. Hell even if they nerf exp gains when offline i just want to play TemTem on the go so bad

Their live service didn't become the next fortnight so they're wrapping it up.😂

Crema apologizing? Somebody must be messing with the timelines.

Make Temtem offline Make Temtem offline Make Temtem offline Make Temtem offline Make Temtem offline

when I was reading the letter I just read a bunch of excuses.

Their reasoning for not making an offline mode now seemed dumb.

We don't have the capacity to make TemTem 2 right now but we definitely have enough to make two new games and an animated series.....

Sounded like empty excuses made for money making, not said from a regretful stance.

This isnt a real apology this is a I'm sorry you didnt understand what we meant when we advertised our game as an mmo to make sales and now that were done and dont want to add more content we are going to explain how we really meant mmo lite and honestly look at what we added for you so you should be happy with this

Shouldn’t have been an mmo to begin with. Runs like crap is slow as hell as a result, frustrating to play.

they gave up on the product to make a new game called Down Below

Yeah... I have a lot of monster tamer games, but Tem Tem never even made my wishlist.

I hope they make the feathers a lot easier to optain, cause that would actually make me go back and play some more

If your potential DLC/Tem Tem overpower the game then how about programming better and balance the new content?

Yeah, no. They are apologizing, but also not taking any blame. Seems like they realized the damage and just want to minimize it, so it won't affect their future games too much.

0:35 part of the reason why I HAVEN'T considered coming back is because there are no large scale updates. 1:50 "Is Temtem an MMO", I'd say barely, they forced MMO grind, etc., onto a single player game given their unwillingness to do any real major updates be they paid expansions, or whatever, this has particularly harmed the breeding system, as you have both massive costs to gurantee the highest stats from each parent stay AND the fertility system, and that particular combination as someone who enjoys breeding and raising monsters in these types of games, hurts the system a ton, either the costs would need to be reduced or the fertility system would need to be reworked. 5:32 Unless the DLC Tems are wildly more powerful then the base game ones this would be a non-issue, TemTem is already pretty lethal for a Monster Tamer, I'd argue in some cases like when fighting General X it's harder then a SMT/Persona game, and that series could be said to be pretty infamous for it's highly lethal bosses, there are ways to keep the playing field even such as having an option to disable DLC Tems if one player doesn't have the DLC or simply just balancing them with the fact in mind that they'd also be facing base game Tems, it doesn't have to perfect it just has to be good enough to keep the playing field relatively even. 9:31 Making premnium content more accessable a well as previous battle passes accessable is a good change even if they didn't choose to remove MTX. Overall however their statement feels half hearted and like they are trying to shift a ton of the blame off themselves, with multiple narratives being spun, so I'm gonna take what they say with an entire quarry's worth of salt.

I really wanted to try TemTem when it was new and never got around to it. If the drama can subside and cease I may still give it a try though I'm not sure if there would even be many players. As long as the game doesn't require other players to finish whatever story there may be (effectively being single-player story) I would probably still play it. Edit: I should have said this too initially, but I would hate to buy the game for it to be shut down briefly after, that's another reason right now I don't want to buy it.

I mean they said it’s a mmo a mmo means content over time. MMO lite does not exist. It’s more or less just a multiplayer rpg. Like Pokémon and just happens to be in monster taming genre

Too little too late ngl. It had problems since day 1, and the devs had always been awful ("Elu" was absolutely hilarious, their defense of it even more so). The fact that the game was as grindy as it was did not help.

Blaming PVP for no paid DLC when the overwhelming majority of the player base care about PVE is such a cop out. I don’t trust this company anymore. I appreciate the coverage you’ve given this game Ed and am glad you’ve led me to greener pastures in the genre

i would love an offline tem tem game.

I stopped playing TemTem halfway through due to the difficulty curb, specifically the EXP grind was just far too slow for my liking. There is slow exp gain, but then there is S L O W exp gain, which is what it felt like playing TemTem, has it changed at all?

All i want is offline mode and multiple save slots. I love replaying these games fresh but i cant do that unless i wipe my save

Honestly it seems they had the game made but in regard to postgame release and content they were hit with decision paralysis so they delayed and just did adjustments to wait out any final decisions. At least they addressed their faults and are trying to mitigate the issues that needed to be ironed out. This feels more honest response at the very least.

So they're basically slowly killing Temtem.. Nice.😏

The most telling part of their nonsense post is the “trust us bro” about offline. If they intend for us to always be able to play then why isn’t offline a focus for them now? I wouldn’t trust these people to throw out my trash. Let alone give us the game offline. They had MtX and battle passes to fund what exactly? Apparently nothing. It was just to milk money, as actual games tend to funnel some of that into you know… actual content updates. These devs are terrible and the sooner they bankrupt the better. :3

Their stubborn refusal to even consider making an optional offline mode is genuinely baffling to me. This game has always been a good single player game (with an awful postgame, tbf, but that's a symptom) with terrible terrible hamfisting into a multiplayer liveservice predatory FOMO thing.

Temtem private server going to be cool one day y

honestly. temtem was doomed to fail from the start. ever sense the early access, the devs constantly mismanaged the game, changing dates, taking a long time to release new islands, items, and content, etc. it really is tragic. this is what happens when you release a game unfinished. a lot of content is missing and you never know when players will come back to actually play the game when it is actually finished.

Its crazy how they basically shutdown temtem and expect people to accept silently and still support another games that no one asks for

As someone that picked temtem up recently for the same price as a meal I'm hyped! XD

not all pvp content uses showdown namely the IGT and dojo wars, so yes DLC tems would add p2w to these modes in their current state

Welp. Bridges burned. Look forward to eevee expo and people who have passion and care even if theres no monetary incentives

Boo hoo, we actually have to support our MMO with content and updates. Shouldn't have made an MMO, then.

MMO-Lite, as in - ”we are gonna make the game as grindy as heck and will also add tons of battle passes, microtransactions and paid currencies, but no actual big updates to support the game, no, that’s requires effort after all”

that paid DLC gap thing is a straight cop-out lol. pokemon does the samething when their is new DLC you cant catch em but you can trade them. that dont even make sense to not add it cause of paid DLC

The whole point of this letter, the reddit lockdown, the new rules about what is off-topic, and the constant post deleting is to make sure you forget about Temtem Swarm, that you don't negatively review Temtem Swarm, that new community members coming in with Swarm have no idea what Crema is like. Don't let them just slip away with a successful cashgrab.

Wouldnt care that the devs gave up on temtem and made a new game if they let go of the temtem brand. They want to have their cake and eat it too.

MMO-lite is such a slimy way of describing what was actually, "we made a decent Pokemon-like game and then shoved it into the MMO format with little to zero thought about how that would actually play out." Honestly, I really wish that TemTem had a single player offline version of the game. It has never made sense for it to be an MMO. And that is like issue 1 of 12 of this response.

Wowwww so they dont want to make new content because players playyyy the game?? How about they just a decent grindable system. All MMOs have drops and spikes in players.

lol They banned me for use a macro to hunt lumas 2 years ago. After hearing this adding micro transactions into a supposedly "MMO" game I already knew the Devs were going to destroy their own game. They ruined the game by making lumas nearly impossible to hunt for an excuse for Saipark..... Yeah the same Dev team causing a split in the player base. Not surprised one bit. Not even a true MMO its just an RPG with co -op play if anything.

People were seriously asking for a sequel? Or was just this the devs way of seeing if they still had a chance with the same people in the future?

I bought the game back when Sword and Shield had just come out and been a huge disappointment, at least to me. Mostly it was a way to demonstrate with cash that I wanted something better. I have barely touched it since those early days and keep telling myself I should try it now years later, but I keep forgetting. This is fascinating as someone who has the game, but no real stake in any of it.

I never managed to get into the game. The level design was pretty bad with the routes feeling barren and long for no real reason. The grind was horrid, and the combat got stale fast. This being said, it sucks to see that the devs don't really care about this game- or that's at least the impression I got from this statement. They basically seem as if they were chasing a trend, marketing the game as an MMO until they decided that an MMO was too much money and work to actually make. They effectively admit in the statement that TemTem was basically a way for them to get money for their next ventures, and nothing more. That it was them making money in order to help fund a bullet heaven game that no one wanted, or the next game that's being worked on at the moment. This is probably the last time I'll purchase a Crema developed game. The devs really aren't honest with the community, and its been this way since the start. Especially given how they handled the discord and the bans of some of their members.

As a solo player experience i loved temtem. I don't care for the multiplayer aspects of monster taming games. Its just not for me.

This announcement from them annoyed me so much, I contacted the advertisement regulators in my country about them and their advertising switcheroo they're pulling here. So we'll see how that goes.

I think the argument about the DLC is actually very solid sure they can get around it with temtem showdown but as a competitive doubles pokemon player having to deal with urshifu (a pokemon that was added in the isles tundra dlc for sword and shield but can also get in scarlet and violets teal mask dlc) Feels like pay to win bullshit. So I get it 😂

Temtem greatest mistake was making it a online game knowing most people don't have internet or real internet to play I would have bought it if it was a offline game hope it sequel temtem 2 is offline I by it with all returning temtem with alot of new temtem

I'm so glad I noped out of this game on launch and got a refund after maybe 15 mins.

Idk for me on the one hand I'd really like to give Crema the benefit of the doubt and trust that they really have learned and regret their previous interaction with the community. I think Temtem did truly have a lot of squandered potential and there were a lot of good ideas involved in the making of Temtem. I'd like to believe that Crema has what it takes to create a wonderful gaming experience. But I just don't like what I'm seeing from Crema and I don't think that I can give them the benefit of the doubt. Pokemon had earned it's status before it started burning me, but Temtem hasn't. What I see was a company cashing in on a golden opportunity when Pokemon was struggling and making bold promises then backpedaling on promises and after overreacting and lashing out at its own community. Not only that but they've made it very clear that the only thing that matters in the end for Temtem is what their vision was for the game which is just...a weird vision with weird endgoals. As far as they're concerned Temtem is done and they never intended to really support it beyond this point, but added paid features to make the illusion that actual future support could be possible. I don't know anything about the costs accrued versus the work they have to do when providing new content or what kind of profits they are making, but I know that the model they have is just not a good model. They come out the gate with an MMO that they can't afford to run and then reclassify it as an MMO-lite after they had already received a good chunk of funding. It's a bad look. Maybe they should have started with the smaller games first and worked up to an actual MMO or this grand vision that they apparently have for Temtem 2. But we all know they would not have made the money we know they made had they not cashed in with big promises while Pokemon was really struggling and people were not as aware of alternative options and less really good options existed. There's literally no reason for me to play Temtem when I can just play Cassette Beasts for half the price and not feel like I'm being annoying to a developer because I have no complaints about Cassette Beasts other than where has it been all my life and why isn't there more of it? Crema REALLY screwed themselves with those passive aggressive (mostly aggressive) remarks from the CEO. Backpedaling is never a good look. Again, I fully believe the community can be toxic as all get out, but you don't see Disc Creatures, Cassette Beasts, Monster Sanctuary, etc get flak because they're actually good well made games that understand what they're trying to accomplish and who they're trying to appeal to. Crema doesn't understand the community and can't concisely convey what they want to accomplish. Communication is just really off. The thing that really gets me is that Temtem would be pretty good as an offline story experience with the postgame content if they cut down the grind. They could add online co-op if they want as that would help it stand out. 100 hrs of content is nothing to scoff at. It's unfortunate that 50 of those hours are spent doing boring grindy activities that don't feel rewarding enough. If Crema would just listen to what people are saying they could have made a good game. Instead they've just made a big confused mess out of something that had a lot of potential. Why should I continue to support them if they have no intention of providing an experience that I am interested in?

It's fine, another company will see a game like temtem, then look at palworld, mix the formulas, and we end up with a better game down the road. I played over 2000 hours in temtem before the game released and somehow, it got worse after live than it did during alpha. Temtem is still a good buy for a playthrough but unfortunately it doesn't have a rewarding end game that makes me want to continue beyond the storyline. Also...Tales of Taroria drama yesterday... =)

Wow this is a lot to take in XD Crema really out here apologizing after everything. They admitted to some stuff which is great, but kinda too late for that now as people have been addressing this issue for so long. Oh well, Thank you for informing us as always Gym Leader Ed! ^^

sooo they can make more games but they cant make new updates to temtem interesting

so admission that they lied about mmo if you ask for money and lie about mmo and don't deliver on mmo that's called fraud

If the QoL updates and changes to the in-game economy address my biggest concerns with the game, namely the incredibly stingy amount of resources I had access to early on, I may actually return to the game and give it a chance. Hopefully there's an option to reset my character and start over from scratch somewhere.

If they do remove all microtransactions, that removes all my expectations for them. The game could be left as it is, and it would just be a bad game. It's ok to make a bad game, but if you charge insane prices for cosmetics and have a battlepass, I expect you to constantly add and improve the game. Without those, I have no expectations. However, I believe the only reason they are removing them now is because the backlash was too much, and the whales were already dwindling. They admit the servers are cheap. This feedback on the fomos shop isn't new, but they decided its important enough now to act on it.... curious. Additional note: they claim Swarm was not originally meant to be an arcade game, and I believed them. But now that they claim they will have a lighter version in the arcade bar because "they started to believe the accusations themselves" and it will like be out in a patch or two... curious.

So in other words now as a outsider who always wanted try it now is the time to do it

It's a good thing I haven't played TemTem yet. I do want to play the game someday, and I don't hate TemTem in general. Although, I would feel more comfortable to wait until things get fixed and that there's no more controversial drama about it. I may not always mind MMOs or being required to having online connections to play anything. Yet, if I want to play something without engaging in Online PVP or doing anything that uses Wi-Fi, then I have a choice. An offline mode for TemTem would be the only request that I would be truly grateful for. Even if I and many other people would rather be content with just this one request, is it really too much to ask?

For me the way to go, was to create another end game isle like the last one, for more content in the game, and go ahead to get more temtems in 1-3 updates. And check if the community goes with that... but they do literally full 120% all in, in pvp so... they fail because of that, because get temtems and make it strong is no that fun, so it was a bad idea all the time, they need to get the pve and pvp at same lv

Builds a community and creates expectations based on the early access update cadence and promise that the archipelago was an ever changing place. What we got was an always online/micro-transaction filled/currency starved creature collector with an surprising amount of focus on pvp and not much else once you got to end game. But remember. Its the communities fault for consuming content too quick and not sticking around for pvp “lazy excuses for content” that takes insane grind just to get started and so few ways to make pansuns that it’s STILL an extremely sore spot amongst fans. Embarrassed doesn’t even begin to describe how this CEO deserves to feel.

Crema is only doing this because if they don't, they're toast. Their new games will sell poorly and the studio will shut down. Aside from that, I have to say that Crema never wanted feedback to begin with. The devs constantly talked about how their vision of the game was set in stone and once everything was in place it would be great. This obviously didn't go as they planned. They never wanted any critical discussion at all really, as evidenced by countless social bans on multiple platforms (myself included). If you weren't a yes-man you were banned. You couldn't use their forums, steam discussions, discord, or in-game chat. You literally couldn't do anything but leave a review, move on, or both. The community became toxic and exclusionary by design and led players away in droves. Remember, this was a kickstarter game funded by the players, released as EA (used for feedback from the community before full release), and even then the devs were way up on their high horse telling everyone that they don't know shit about shit in PR speak. ALSO Them saying that adding new content to their game is too much, but making two totally new games is not??? What? And good on your for spotting that their dlc excuse doesn't fly when the pvp mode could easily allow anyone to use the tems without actually owning them in the game. Something must be seriously wrong with their code to not be able to add onto it at all. I think they saw TemTem as a sinking ship and decided to just let it slowly die while they worked on other things, stringing their playerbase along. Please don't get it twisted, this statement isn't them taking accountability. Crema had the MMO tag for four years despite, even back before full release, a metric ton of players saying they should change the tags. I was one of those people. It literally took their community fizzling out entirely for them to do anything because if they want to sell their new game(s) then this statement had to happen. It's a pitiful last-ditch effort to rake up sympathy and praise for doing what they should have done from the very beginning.

The story of this game is tragic. I admit I am not a big fan of MMO’s but I also would have loved an MMO in the vein of pokemon. I was ready to buy this game last year only for several people to tell me not to buy it in spite of the positive reviews I was seeing. Keeping up with the news about this game really hits it home that it’s been a massive disappointment for so many. What a shame…..

As someone who plans to make their own Pokémon style game, this really upsets me. I feel like the fans are going to have so much trouble trusting my game’s kickstarter.

I will not buy any of their future games let alone other possible products or even consider if they were a selective handfuld of studios/devs left in the world because this is just disgusting and outrageously disappointing behavior

Lost my support for life. No Mans Sky has provided free support for 5+ years, no cost. The “cost” excuse is BS.

I really really wanted to love Temtem. It's just such a slog to get through, every battle is hard and there are random trainers every five feet. That wouldn't be so bad but paired with all the backtracking and how expensive items are just getting through the story is not a fun time. The battle system itself is fun and the monsters are cute and interesting, I just wish it didn't have this grindy slog attached to it. Playing Temtem just makes me want to play Pokemon instead, at least with Pokemon I know I'll have fun. Which is frustrating, I know there's a good game here, but I don't have the patience to beat my head against this wall when I can play something consistently fun instead.

The battle pass was 100% the reason I’ve never even looked at the game excited to finally check it out. Full price games don’t need battle passes.

"We believe temtem is massive, multiplayer, and online. Btw it is not an mmo"

Being able to grind all previous tamer passes for free is amazing

Their definition of an MMO is way different than mine. Their way makes it sound like most games would be an mmo

Morning!

What if they just…stopped?