There is some news that we would prefer not to read. Like for example the release of version 0.8 of Cattle and Crops which has nothing to do with what was initially planned.
Paid to play Cattle and Crops Early Access? Did you expect a final version at the end of the year? Thinking of playing virtual farmers with your friends in some great multiplayer games? Repack your dreams! Everything has just collapsed. Version 0.8 has just arrived... a bit quickly elsewhere. But why ?
Simply because the timeline of the project has just been reviewed. Until recently 0.8 was synonymous with multiplayer. But now, this function has simply disappeared from the development schedule. The 0.8 is now renamed "Polishing". Concretely, the development of new functionalities is frozen. We put a wipe down on the existing one to remove the last bugs before opening the official beta.
A quick glance at Archive.org shows that during development the timeline changed several times, before arriving at a stable and sustained guideline, with a release scheduled for the end of the year. But this point has also changed and we must now be satisfied with a "Q2 2020". At the moment, our questions to the development team remain unanswered, we are referred to the official game forum which specifies that the multiplayer is indeed abandoned, due to lack of personnel, but that he will see " perhaps " the day after the release of the final version. We will come back to the subject very quickly…. we hope so.