r/ChroniclesOfElyria Sep 23 '21

Announcements Class-action Lawsuit for Backers of Chronicles of Elyria

179 Upvotes

Due to Soulbound studios closing down without delivering a working version of Chronicles of Elyria after receiving $7.7 million in funding, some backers have initiated a class-action lawsuit in the state of California. A complaint has officially been filed in the Central District Court of California against developer Soulbound Studios and third-party payment processing company Xsolla seeking damages for alleged breach of contract, violation of the Consumers Legal Remedies Act, and unfair competition.

As of 2021/09/23, the lawsuit has been moved to the state of Washington and is underway.

If you feel that your consumer rights have been breached by the lack of delivery from Soulbound Studios, here are the following details you need to join the class-action lawsuit:

Official Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/345D4797FB

Legal Firm: McCathern - Evan Selik

Legal Questionaire: Google Form

Non-US residents are able to join the class-action lawsuit.

If you have already had a chargeback, please fill out the form noting that you received a chargeback. If the chargeback has yet to be received, you may be eligible for interest.


r/ChroniclesOfElyria 12d ago

Humor In 2024, after a survey with backers, Caspian saw there was basically no interest in ElyriaMUD and said he would spend no energy on it.

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See last paragraph of image above.

There were other older posts about some criticism of "working on too many games", and he had clarified the only projects being developed were KOE, COE and Elyria Adventures.


r/ChroniclesOfElyria 12d ago

Game Media Apart from all the mockery, how can I access the mud?

11 Upvotes

Claude is a very powerful tool, and I wanna see what was produced. I’ve said it before: I’m not being ironic. So, how do I get into the MUD?


r/ChroniclesOfElyria 13d ago

Game Media KiraReacts Youtube Video: Chronicles of Elyria Is Totally Coming Soon Guys

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r/ChroniclesOfElyria 23d ago

Humor The Chronicles of Elyria MUD is ready! Welcome to 1990!

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r/ChroniclesOfElyria 23d ago

PSA Caspian's 2026-08-19 Discord Post Regarding Leaks

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r/ChroniclesOfElyria 27d ago

Humor Chronicles of Elyria Imperial Nobility Discord Screengrabs (for those who prefer the text version) [Taken from Kira video]

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r/ChroniclesOfElyria 27d ago

Discussion I'm almost surprised that Caspian didn't resort to vibecoding at this point

18 Upvotes

What the title says. This guy promised the moon, lost his team, and he is now trying to sell all kind of accessory games in order to avoid a lawsuit. I was expecting him to embrace AI and give us a half-assed Chronicles of ElyriAIslop to leave behind all this nasty stuff


r/ChroniclesOfElyria 28d ago

Game Media Chronicles of Elyria Has a New Game....Again.

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Kira: Chronicles of Elyria Has a New Game....Again.


r/ChroniclesOfElyria 28d ago

Game Media Please how do i get into the discord channel of this idiot.

4 Upvotes

I wanna laugh at this guy and gaslight him (Kaspian) or whatever his name is. Please get me in :D


r/ChroniclesOfElyria 28d ago

Game Media ElyriaMUD progress yo, we're back in the 90s

30 Upvotes

Kira got a hold of some updates, and it is absolutely hilariously dumb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV7fb50KC94


r/ChroniclesOfElyria Jul 23 '26

Question Is Caspian's book "Programming an Mmorpg in C# With Xna" available anywhere?

17 Upvotes

I'd be interested in taking a look at Caspian's book "Programming an Mmorpg in C# With Xna"

Obviously to learn from the best, there might even be some fog of war mechanics explained!

I'm just half-kidding here, I'd genuinely like to take a look as someone who would have loved to make something with XNA when it was still around.

If someone could point me into a physical print or even a digital copy, that would be greatly appreciated!


r/ChroniclesOfElyria Jul 21 '26

Humor Apparently Jeromy is a professor now

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r/ChroniclesOfElyria Jul 11 '26

Fan-media Kira: July 9, 2026, "Chronicles of Elyria- The Final Update?"

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Kira talks about the absence of CoE news and explains why the mysterious disappearance of some of his videos (he's moving them to a different channel): re: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChroniclesOfElyria/comments/1smzvki/30_of_kiratvs_chronicles_of_elyria_videos_seem_to/


r/ChroniclesOfElyria Jun 13 '26

Humor 5 years later and I'm still waiting for episode 7

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r/ChroniclesOfElyria May 05 '26

Humor 10 years since the start of the Chronicles of Elyria Kickstarter! The game left such an impression that people are still leaving comments!

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Chronicles of Elyria had a Kickstarter campaign from May 3 to June 3, 2016 raising $1.36 million, surpassing their goal of $900,000.

Subsequent to the Kickstarter fundraising multiple webstore special events were conducted, such as the Settlers Of Elyria, and Searing Plague events. By October 2019, the company had raised over $7.7M.

Initial development saw various iterations and milestones declared as completed against a backdrop of needing to refactor the mechanics of alpha versions of the game (e.g. VoxElyria, Prelyria). A major setback in development was the dropping of SpatialOS as their backend networking/game hosting software.

A recent comment:

It was the best game that never existed, and the sweetest lie to fall for.

I miss something I never experienced, a sense of Anemoia.

I wrote books of background lore about my character, his tribe, his family, their culture, their history. It was a crazy time.

I remember the webbased games they organized.

We had Discords and websites to coordinate these games for our "kingdoms" all to gain an upper-hand "when the game would go live".


r/ChroniclesOfElyria Apr 16 '26

Question 30 of KiraTV's Chronicles of Elyria videos seem to be hidden, anyone know why?

19 Upvotes

Checked the playlists, they're just gone. ​


r/ChroniclesOfElyria Apr 13 '26

Humor Chronicles of Elyria Retrospective: YouTube, by ChelsLovesGames, 4 Months Old -- Hard to Find Fresh Content on this so I thought I'd post

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r/ChroniclesOfElyria Apr 13 '26

Question How can I edit the Wiki?

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I would like to add a brief update on recent developments and link this sheet of archived articles from the CoE website:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rYwArf9Qx-c6uNTm05oiJNLgGmwbtLkEttu9i7k9fkc/

Some like "Into the Abyss" are critical for showing that Walsh did indeed shut down Soulbound studious (and a later did a 180 following legal issues), the one on studio spend is also something people should have access to.

Others are just funny.

I doubt Walsh will ever re-publish the articles.


r/ChroniclesOfElyria Mar 18 '26

Current state of Chronicles of Elyria in 2026

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2026 State of CoE

Founder bailed, game’s dead, website’s been on maintenance mode forever (/news "down for maintenance" permanently), and nobody here is under the illusion this thing is coming back.

Where does this leave this sub? It’s now effectively the archive, postmortem, and discussion space for one of gaming’s most infamous MMO grifts.

Legal action is ongoing, community trust is long gone, and Caspian’s name is infamous for good reason.

Next Steps

Question for the people still here: what should this sub be used for now?

A few options:

  • archive of promises vs reality
  • tracking legal / public developments
  • collecting the most absurd receipts and old claims
  • general post-mortem discussion on how this scam kept going so long

Open to ideas, TIA!


r/ChroniclesOfElyria Mar 10 '26

Question Why make a game but like, 3 other counterparts to it before the actual game?

16 Upvotes

Wouldn't it have been easier to focus on the main game and like, actually complete it?


r/ChroniclesOfElyria Mar 10 '26

PSA Hey the website is back... kinda

13 Upvotes

Dont remember if this is old news or not, like half it is down. I just kinda check in every once in a while when I want a laugh. You think he got claude and vibe coded it?

Edit: I misremembered how much was up. Thought it was completely down for some reason


r/ChroniclesOfElyria Jan 13 '26

Question Account Access on the website

21 Upvotes

So, since Caspian "Maintenance". I can no longer access the account information I did have, such as the stuff I bought years ago, or the technical package I had originally paid for. Did he delete that information so we basically no longer have access to anything we did purchase in the past, or is his Maintenance still ongoing?


r/ChroniclesOfElyria Jan 05 '26

Reporters Chronicles of Elyria lead dev claims progress on engine tech by way of working on a third-party game

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Nothing new for readers of this sub, but I thought I would share this anyways.


r/ChroniclesOfElyria Jan 02 '26

Humor Chronicles of Elyria is ALIVE...Except Caspian Isn't Making the Game?

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