We are a small group of friends from Germany, and between us we have spent more than twenty years inside MMORPGs. We grew up in them, we met in them, and we stayed long after most people put the genre down.
We have also watched the games we love make the same mistakes, over and over. Worlds that stretch wide but never deep. Grinds with nothing underneath them. Games built for a quarter's numbers instead of for the people who actually live in them. Ellaris is our answer. We are building the MMORPG we always wanted to play, and trying to get right the things the industry keeps getting wrong.
We will say it plainly: we are Sword Art Online fans. We believe that one day something like the NerveGear will be real, that people will truly cross over into worlds instead of looking at them through a screen. When that day comes, the worlds will already have to exist. We are building one of them, so that a game like Ellaris can be a foundation worth standing on.
Until then we keep our heads down and build, one world at a time.
Reality is what leaves a mark. We mean to leave one.