This is going to be short and sweet.

After many long years being off-line, Alganon is back online. Well, sort of.

Long story short, after Quest Online was acquired by 3000AD and taken off-line shortly after the deal closed, the plan was to migrate it to a new datacenter, consolidate the servers while e-wasting legacy servers no longer in use etc.

Due to the costs and planning involved, I never intended to bring it back online in its original state. Instead, I was working on various partnership deals which would not only bring the game back online, but also help us transition from bare-metal servers to cloud servers, release the game worldwide (it was only ever released in North America) with localized (a LOT of work for an MMO) assets, do some marketing etc. We also planned visual upgrades to prominent art assets; some of which we had previously done in the expansion pack released in 2015.

For one reason or another none of the deals panned out. And so, without re-releasing it I have been working through various scenarios while pondering on next steps - short of selling it outright to a third-party that can do all the things that I wanted to do with it - and relaunch it.

In 2021, an opportunity came along which ignited some ideas on forging a path forward for Alganon.

While I can't yet divulge the nature of the path forward, I can safely say that in the coming months the game will once again be available publicly - but in a staggered release format. This means that it won't be a wide release, but instead be based on an invite-only process at various stages until the work is completed and the final release goes wide.

There will be a server wipe of all characters and stats, though we will retain legacy accounts. The reason for this is to prevent legacy players from having an advantage over gamers new to Alganon. That said, we plan to compensate (in-game Tribute tokens) those legacy players based on the value and quality of their characters and assets.

Leading up to the initial phase of the re-release, we will also be inviting experienced (based on play time, characters etc) Alganon players to be in-game community GMs in order to help new players ease into the game and become familiar with it.

For now, the Alganon store page here on Steam is back online, but purchases are disabled. Also, you cannot login to the game because the legacy client will not be able to connect to the updated build that's now running on migrated servers at the new datacenter.

You can also now login to the game db via MyAlganon to view your character stats, as well as catch-up on all the game info, news etc. You can login using either your legacy account or Steam (do not enter user/password when using this method!). As things progress with the re-release, those areas of the website will be updated and populated with current news about our progress.

That is all for now. Welcome back!