It would seem, based on a recent investment offering from Portalarium, the company developing Shroud of the Avatar, that the company is on shaky ground. Here's a link to their investment page: https://www.seedinvest.com/portalarium/series.b Here's a Reddit post that pulls out a few points from the page: https://www.reddit.com/r/shroudoftheavatar/comments/6elvda/after_rereading_everything_in_seedinvest_im_about/?st=J3EGEW1D&sh=5b8560a8 I backed the game a while back, and while it has been making steady progress, it has been fairly slow progress, and the game still has major issues with mechanics, poor animation and sound quality, and a severe lack of story content. I wouldn't consider the game anywhere near ready for a July 2017 release. They've been doing quite a bit of pledge store items lately, and my guess is that it was an attempt to drum up sales to stay afloat. They've never had the cash flow that CIG has had, but they're a much smaller team, and the game has a much smaller vision, so I would have expected them to be on track, financially, but it looks like that's not the case ($18M in debt).