Some Steam players are not happy at the situation. Without multiplayer working, the Planet Explorers team believes the game isn’t a complete package, As such, the game will be completely free on Steam and the game’s source code will be released to the public.Īs the team continues work on Planet Explorers 2, that game will have a playable alpha branch for all players of the original game in the future.
Under the circumstances, we just don’t have the resources to rewrite the multiplayer code for PE. Even if we had the original U-link code, we still don’t have the configurations and additional code we wrote back in 2013. “We used a software called U-link for PE, and that software is now defunct. “We’ve arrived at the unfortunate conclusion that it’s a lost cause unless we completely rewrite the code from scratch,” the devs wrote. After spending a month investigating the issue, the developer came to the conclusion that the only way to fix the issue was to rewrite the code from scratch. In a blog post on Steam, Panthea explained that they experienced an issue where all of the multiplayer code base got deleted from its server.
