Winter Sale Spectacular — Creativerse is 40% off through January 2nd!

UPDATE: We decided to extend our sale another 2 weeks. Creativerse will remain now 40% off through Jan 2, 2015!

With all apologies to our southern hemisphere players, winter is coming. To prepare against the cold, we need more players to heat up our servers, which double as Playful HQ’s heating system.

In all seriousness, we are feeling good enough about Creativerse’s stability that we are ready to widen the audience a bit and really see what our servers can handle. We’re hoping a sale will help us get there. It’s an essential step on our journey to eventually going free to play next year.

You can help us by letting your friends know and then playing the heck out of Creativerse together. It’s the perfect time to get together and let your friends build a temple to your glory while renting them space in your catacombs for the small price of 17 tempered iron bars a day.

And remember, your feedback has already helped shape the game into something incredible! We’re relying on your continued participation to help us make Creativerse the pinnacle of sandbox adventure games! Let’s keep crafting our world together!

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The Store Is Taking a Vacation

So if you’ve been thinking about buying something — get it now.

Hey guys,

We’ve talked a lot about our plans to change the store in Creativerse — which, by the way, was largely a result of all the great feedback we got from you.

The first phase of that change will be happening with the next update. We will be turning off the store entirely. We will also be removing timers on the crafting station and tweaking all the other timers slightly (e.g. for the forge, processor and extractors). You will no longer be able to skip any timers, and they will never be tied to purchases again. A few updates later, we’ll bring a new and improved store back featuring a bunch of new stuff — extras, buffs, and cosmetics, etc.

We may bring back some of the items currently featured in the store, but there’s no guarantee all the recipes and bundles will be identical. So if you were on the fence about wanting that Firework recipe or the Cathedral Pack, we suggest you get it soon. The new update could be live as early as next Monday.

Thanks for reading, and thank you for being one of our awesome early access players!

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Creativerse Servers: Regular Downtime Schedule

Hi all!

[9/25 UPDATE]: We are switching the server downtime on Wed and Fri to 10 am CST instead of 1:30 pm CST. This change accounts for the fact that fewer players are typically online at that time.

Starting Wednesday, August 27th, we’re going to begin regularly scheduled downtimes for the Creativerse servers. We’ll use these downtimes to reboot the servers and deploy new updates.

The downtimes will be Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 1:30 p.m. CST, and should last no more than 45 minutes (usually less).

We believe these downtimes will help with general server stability and keep things running smoothly.

Three scheduled downtimes a week is an extra dose of caution on our part. As we continue through early access, we’ll monitor things to see if we can scale this back to less frequent downtimes (once or twice a week). Further down the road, we’ll look into moving the downtimes to a better time of day as well.

If we need to add any unscheduled downtimes to support deploying a new build or a hotfix, we’ll make every effort to give the community a couple of hours of notice.

Thanks!

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