Dear VR3 Community,
first of all we would like to apologize for not beeing able to say a single word for so long. We would like to explain this circumstance now and explain how we continue with VR3.
What happened?
We don't want to overstrain this part, therefore a short summary. After the release of VR3, our publisher was unsatisfied with the sales and the delivered scope of the project. Unfortunately, our contract seemed to allow too much room for interpretation for both parties. In particular our financial security was strongly endangered by this situation, therefore we saw ourselves after some unsuccessful solution attempts forced to call in a lawyer. From this point on it became so uncomfortable that we could not give out any more information (especially not to you, the community). It was painful to read the discussions here, but not beeing able to contribute - that will change now.
How did we come to an agreement?
After more than a year and a lot of back and forth we could find a satisfactory solution for everyone. The most important aspect for you might be that we have the license for digital distribution back and the product "Virtual Rides 3" can now be found in our account. This means we don't have to fear an account block anymore and can develop the project on our own, without the former publisher being involved. A further aspect worth mentioning is that the agreement includes that the publisher will continue to be active in retail sales with our product for the next few years, especially in order to reduce existing copies.
What are the future plans?
We still believe in "Virtual Rides". Contrary to some opinions in the discussion forum, we are not working on a fourth sequel. We will continue developing VR3 further. The used engine "Unity" has improved very positively in the time and we would like to try to take some of the improvements and use them for VR3.
But much more important for you: We will build a new tile on the map first, on which you will also find another ride. Unfortunately we can't give you an exact timetable yet.
Of course we also have many more ideas, but more about that at a later date.
We hope that you can understand our situation as developers and would be happy if you give us the chance to revive "Virtual Rides".
Please let us know your thoughts in the comments section!
- Your VR3-Team