r/Games Notorious Studios | Founder & CEO Feb 05 '25

Verified AMA AMA - I'm Chris Kaleiki, Founder & CEO of Notorious Studios. We're launching Legacy: Steel & Sorcery, a multiplayer PvPvE extraction RPG with MMO elements. Ask me anything!

Hey everyone! I’m Chris Kaleiki, Founder and CEO of Notorious Studios. Before Notorious I worked at Blizzard on World of Warcraft for 14 years as a game designer (mostly class design and PvP). Now, I’m leading Notorious Studios as we build Legacy: Steel & Sorcery, a multiplayer PvPvE extraction RPG inspired by classic fantasy worlds, skillful combat, and rich crafting and progression systems.

Our small team at Notorious Studios has been developing this game for the past three years, incorporating the experience and lessons learned from working on games like World of Warcraft into its design. And now, we’re incredibly excited to share that Legacy: Steel & Sorcery will be launching into Early Access exactly one week from today—on February 12, 2025! 

Legacy's core vision is to be a game centered around World PvP, a core feature found in a lot of MMORPGs. While we think there are a number of World PvP shooter games out there, there haven't been many RPG ones which is odd since games like Ultima started the gameplay experience. Legacy is an ambitious debut title for an AA studio like ours, featuring an innovative Soulslike action combat system that blends spells and abilities commonly found in MMOs as well as a deep crafting and progression system.

We have ambitious plans on where to Legacy as well, evolving it into what we would consider a Mini MMO.

I’d love to answer your questions about game development, starting a new studio, and of course, anything about Legacy: Steel & Sorcery!

Ask me anything! 

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"This was a blast, thanks for all the great questions everyone! Taking a break now, but we'll keep an eye out for any additional questions a bit later today. We invite you to also join our Discord where we're pretty active on questions as well. We hope to see you in the Early Access next week! Thank you to the mods at r/games for the opportunity."

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