Repopulation Development Shifts Focus to Real Life Crafting

Earlier today, it was announced that Above and Beyond Technologies (ABT) will soon partially shift its focus away from the development of its upcoming MMO The Repopulation. Currently in its final alpha phase, the game had garnered an ever increasing amount of followers that hailed it as the spiritual successor to Star Wars Galaxies. The announcement came as a shock to the gaming community where the initial reviews of The Repopulation have been positive, specifically about the robust and complex crafting system implemented by ABT. As it turns out, it is the crafting system itself that is responsible for the change.

"When we first drew up how crafting was going to work, we wanted to make it feel realistic to the players by requiring not just materials, but thought and creativity as well," explained developer Joshua Halls. "After our initial testing, we soon realized its true potential."

Beginning in April, Above and Beyond Technologies will begin using The Repopulation's crafting system to create real world items. "Since we were designing how to make items in game, we thought 'why not make them in real life'? Turns out, there wasn't much of a difference. In fact, most items that can be made in-game are actually easier to create in real life," said Halls.

Crafting a single sword in the Repopulation requires over a dozen components.
To be fair, it is a future sword.

ABT hopes to release its first product, a personal vehicle called a 'hyper cycle', by November 2015. While it seems like a lofty goal to bring such a high tech machine from design to store in such a short time, Halls is confident in the proposed timeline. "We estimate it will take a player north of nine months to figure out how to craft a hyper cycle in-game, which means we should be able to create a real life prototype in about half that time."

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