Since yesterday, a number of netizens said that the scattered explosion "The Wandering Earth" mobile game project was disbanded. Another netizen said that because "The Wandering Earth" failed to be launched in December 2023 as scheduled, its publisher Hanhai Star Dome (established in January 2023 and announced in October of the same year that it had obtained the global exclusive ** operation right of the "Wandering Earth" mobile game) may face a wasted end in the funds and costs invested in a year.
At 18 o'clock this afternoon, the official account of "The Wandering Earth" updated the news on major platforms, suspected of refuting rumors.
The game news learned that the "Wandering Earth" project did change, but it was not cold as rumored. According to sources, the project is not stranded.
The Wandering Earth is a Chinese-style sci-fi SLG mobile game. Scatterblast obtained the original IP authorization in 2020, and has been in research and development for three years, and the scale once reached about 100 people. Earlier, it was reported that the progress of the project was not optimistic due to the fact that Scatterblast had no previous experience in SLG development. The game was officially released in January 2023 and received a version number in June of the same year.
Although both ** and the movie have quite high popularity, and the first exposure of the game PV has also received millions**, the player base does not seem to be interested in this SLG. Up to now, the number of followers of its Weibo and Bilibili accounts is less than 40,000, and the number of Taptap reservations is only 750 thousand.
Some netizens speculated that the change in the mobile game project of "The Wandering Earth" may be related to the performance of the new project of scattering is not as expected. In December last year, the company's important product "Girls' Frontline 2: Chasing and Release" was officially launched, and briefly topped the iOS game free list, ranking as high as 10th on the best-selling list, but soon after falling out of the TOP100, and now it has disappeared from the 500.