Due to failures in marketing and design, Sunset World Online did not live up to its expectations and never made enough money, or reached enough promising goals in order to justify or fund its servers. So, since the game is unplayable in "offline mode", it will be retired from Steam in order to avoid tricking new players into downloading an unsupported game.

This does not mean the game is gone forever, it will, hopefully, return in a better shape and form, with more content that fits its age and especially more funding for its initial marketing burst. an MMORPG such as Sunset World Online can not live in the current market due to the fact that not enough players gather for an expedition. This end is common to many games out there which rely on matchmaking capabilities.

More than anyone else I was devastated by this decision, I've worked night and day, 14 hours a day, no weekends, no sick days on my saving to get this game out there, following a dream I had from my youth, of creating the successor to Maplestory. This is only one out of many dreams shattered along the way, but it's how you get up and out of things in life that makes you successful, eventually, or so I've heard.



Well, I hope I will one day return to this game, into which I've poured my heart and soul,
And when that time will come, someday, sometime, I'd hope to see you there too.

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Additions

• 4 New Classes which are obtainable from level 15+
  
  
  
  • Lightning
    
    
  • Ice
    
    
  • Magma
    
    
  • Nature
    
    
  
  Along with special and unique quests for each class!
  
• New Locations
  
• CONTROLLER SUPPORT - The game now truly supports controllers, making proper use of each and every button.
  
  
• 2 New General Spells
  
  
  
  • Reverse Spell - Defensive skill-based maneuver, not applicable on EVERY SPELL and is mostly there as prep for future PVP content.
    
  • Lend Energy - Supportive Skill - Allows you to provide allies with some of your energy, boosting them while weakening you, this is buff stackable!
    
  
  
• Details about buffs effects/stats in the hover tooltip.
  
• Game Clock - You may now know how long is it gonna be until the next time phase (Day / Night) updates every minute.
  
• Loot Need / Greed / Pass button - tooltip descriptions
  
• More obvious selection in the main menu for keyboard/joystick
  
• Players who don't respond to a match (Due to inactivity, in most cases) will no longer remain in the queue.
  
• AFK now stops searching for a match.
  
• Character creation now shows how classes fork to second classes.
  
• Hotkeys on abilities now seem more like buttons
  

• Mastery Spells have been replaced and now the level cap is back at 20.
  
• Earthquake Radius Nerfed
  
• Tower Lord XP Increased.
  

• Bug that movement is ice-like and slides when a controller is plugged in.
  
• Issues with typing while the controller is plugged in.
  
• Rock Spell Size
  
• Portals in some locations were missing.
  
• "Press E To Skip" hiding UI and blocking interaction.
  
• Quick Dialog skipping ends up activating an old dialog decision instead of the relevant one.
  
• "What's Up Doc?" achievement now works. (Note that old characters from EQ may not be able to complete some achievements due to migration, for example, Edgeworld Experience Connoisseur)
  
• Halo behind characters in the main menu now looks less odd.
  
• Bugs with crabs falling under some rocks.
  
• Collect quests should no longer consume more than the necessary amount.
  

Hi! This is the first update since release, it should fix issues that came up in the last few days, as well as add some misc. feature requests that seemed necessary!

If you like this game / care about its future / see the potential in it.
Please post a review on the Steam Store Page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1903270/Sunset_World_Online/

That would help us a whole lot!

[b]Additions[/b]

• New caves now connect between the beach area and the primary cave network, allowing players to use them as a shortcut from anywhere to anywhere in the region!
  
• The server will change its hosting instance type, hopefully fixing latency issues. (This will come into effect very soon (day or two))
  
• Old characters can collect "School of Magic" chain quests from the Dream-Pond Shaman!
  
• Consuming fruit will add a temporary "Well Fed" buff (+Health Regen & -Movement Speed)
  
• ESC now instantly exits any dialog.
  
• New - Reset Key Bindings - Button
  

• Players who decline/don't respond to "Match Found" for any reason would automatically leave the matchmaking queue.
  
• EXP Gain from expeditions has been increased!
  
• Push is set to be a level 11 earth ability. (Was removed for some time)
  
• Defend "Block" duration has been increased.
  
• Quest givers right after Sunset Port have been elevated slightly in order to avoid situations in which players are hit by mobs while talking to the NPC.
  
• Players will no longer get their geo-located localization, but instead English for everyone.
  
• Touch / Controller analog should now be less sensitive, triggering jump and drop only from a high threshold.
  
• Musket bullets now deal more damage while fruit from the fruit basket deals less damage. (balancing)
  
• Lowered the chance of spawning slimes in the slot machines.
  

• Achievements should now work!
  
• Name tags were slightly smaller than the text.
  
• Added a small collider to the crossroads path back to Sunset Port (in order to make the walk smooth)
  
• Fixed a typo in resurrection gem and lowered its price slightly.
  
• The game should attempt to prevent players from disconnecting while switching maps, this will not work for server-called disconnections.
  
• Added foolproof un-flip of the screen for scenarios in which the screen is stuck flipped for whatever reason.
  
• Press E to Skip text should now disappear when changing scenes/characters / etc...
  
• Decision Selection panel should also disappear in the same circumstances.
  
• Warning window text fixes.
  
• Buying items from stores should no longer break the store UI.
  
• Cruel weapon abilities are now fixed.