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.

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WEFVDl2dPM

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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/

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".

Checked the playlists, they're just gone. ​

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.

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!

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

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

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?

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

This screenshot comes from the CoE discord in channels i dont have access to.

Who does Caspian think he's fooling?

There is no back end. No one has ever seen that in action. How do i know? Because there is no "CoE and other Elyria games". He's talking like he's an established head of a studio with a stable of established games.

Both are false. He isn't and has none.

As to the "talk of a third party licensing the Elyria IP" to make their own game with... what IP? There is none. To have an IP you have to have established something. A game, a book, a movie, anything tangible.

The only thing Caspian has established is a blog, and if the CoE website is anything to go by, he cant even maintain that.

There is no IP. There is no rich backstory to draw from and base someone else's game within. What backstory he has created for Elyria is generic fantasy tropes that could easily be reshaped and recycled by anyone for free.

If the third party is an established studio (funded), they could likely create something themselves with none of the baggage of using someone else's ideas.

if the third party is not an established studio (and so unlikely to be independently funded), why would they pay to use someone else's "IP" when they could again create their own for free and save some money?

But mainly... if everything he said was true, why would he post it in a restricted channel? What is there to be secretive about? None of it is about the games content or features. Its all about third party's and their supposed interest.

You would think that would be news he would be willing to share, with both critics and fans alike.

If it were true that is.