Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

Quaid said:

No shortage of balls on this team. Respect for making the right call.

They confirm in this update what I said a few weeks ago. They need 10-15k+ monthly subs to keep the bare minimum full-timers employed, in addition to volunteer labour:

If the team is 49 people, does that mean you need 50k subs in October?​

No, the bulk of our team is still planning on working on the project part time when we go live.

The subset of the team that’s in a situation where we’d like to get them paid as soon as possible is still about 12 people. They’ve sacrificed a ton for us, and we’re really hoping that enough of you enjoy the game come October to help make this possible.

If we’re able to maintain more than 10-15k subscribers in a stable manner over time, we’ll roll more people onto the team.

But for most of us, we’re mostly working to see if we can make the game a reality, and hope to keep pushing it towards 1.0.


This game cannot be as 'niche' as people would have you believe.

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10-15k subs is honestly pretty niche in 2026. Totally doable

Quaid said:

Agreed. But there's a lot of mouth-breathers who think this thing will be fine with the 2500-5000 people who are currently locked in.

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I dunno about EA launch, but 1.0 will see an insane amount of people at least try the game. There aren't so many MMO releases that you won't see the big content creators come in and farm some views at a minimum. Not a guarantee of success but the game will almost certainly get a lot of attention at release, for a while at least. Up to them to have it ready to keep those people.

People are still hungry for a good MMO, even crappy ones tend to see a decent pop for a while