Victory: The Age Of Racing Goes Free-To-Play, Developers Move To New Game

It's been quite some time since I last checked in on Victory: The Age of Racing. Vae Victis Games' F1 racing MMO was originally set to be published by GamersFirst back around 2009. It evidently went through development hell back then, as it disappeared for five years before resurfacing on Steam Early Access on February 10, 2014 at the price of $14.99. Two years later, the game has officially launched on Steam as a free-to-play title—but that may not entirely be cause for celebration.

On June 19, 2014, Vae Victis announced RaceCraft, an engine for procedural race track generation that appeared as if it would be added as an update to Victory. It was later announced that RaceCraft would become a completely separate game focused on procedurally generated race tracks. According to the developers, the new engine was "not compatible" with Victory and could not be added as a patch. All Victory owners would get the game for free, but Victory's future remained uncertain. Not a single update pertaining to Victory was posted between the announcement of RaceCraft and today, but the game has now gone free-to-play, seemingly abandoned. Meanwhile, RaceCraft entered Closed Alpha on February 8th for those who purchased Victory with an Early Access release planned for March.

I've yet to sit down with Victory, so I will not claim to know how good of a game it is or how complete it is. Nevertheless, this turn of events does not bode well for the game's future.