“Unfortunately I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey in its current form. As a result, I have made the hard decision to restructure the studio. We will continue developing our Melba technology with a smaller team, while halting further development of Go Wayback.”
It sounds like they aren’t abandoning the project, they just don’t have the resources to continue at the current scale and need to ease back.
Releasing it for free as-is and offering refunds is a decent move.
Actually, they’re pushing out one last content update and then making free, so even better!
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It sounds like they aren’t abandoning the project, they just don’t have the resources to continue at the current scale and need to ease back.