Dune: Awakening dev says player retention has been "extremely good" and the MMO's 10-year plan still has "so much to pull from" in the lore: "We'll go to new planets eventually"

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Production director Ole Andreas Hayley would love to visit the Atreides home planet, Caladan

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Dune: Awakening's developers have a big 10-year plan for the survival MMO that includes new maps and planets, so it's encouraging to hear that player retention blew the team's "expectations away."

Speaking to GamesRadar+, Dune: Awakening's production director Ole Andreas Hayley said "the team is spirited" after the game's pretty massive launch. Momentum didn't get lost in the sand soon after, though. "It's been received well, our retention numbers for the game have been extremely good. It blew our expectations away."

Dune: Awakening is a bit more “like a Dune survival RPG” than a full MMO, with multiplayer driving "that feeling of the universe being alive”

Kaan Serin
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.

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