Venture Beat
has a response from Ragnarok Game LLC to
today's announcement that
Rune II developer Human Head Studios is closed. This refers to Ragnarok as
the publisher of Rune II, even though the
Epic Games
Store lists the publisher as Human Head. Ragnarok says the closure was
unexpected, which is weird, since
this post on Steam that seems to be from Human Head says, "Ragnarok Game,
LLC is the business entity we created with our financial partner ESDF to publish
Rune." In any event, they say they still plan on supporting the game, though it
may take some time to get things in order:
“Yesterday, we successfully
launched Rune II onto the Epic Games Store and the game’s demand has exceeded
our expectations,” the Ragnarok team said in a statement. “First and foremost:
We love this game, and we will continue to support Rune II.”
“Today, developer Human Head Studios announced that it closed its doors and will
be starting a new studio,” reads the Ragnarok statement. “This is shocking news
to us, as there are several entities working on Rune II — we found out about
this news when you did.”
“Human Head had a longstanding agreement with Rune II’s publisher, Ragnarok
Game, LLC, to provide ongoing support for the game,” reads the Ragnarok
statement. “We are working quickly to resolve any current technical issues while
we build the team that will execute the exciting planned future of Rune II’s
post-launch content strategy.”
“Our plan remains to continue working on Rune II and launch onto other PC
platforms in 2020,” reads the statement. “We’re excited to show you the future
of Rune II content.”