A few different Hytale players appear to have had their unique usernames snatched away from them and given to streamers and other content creators, resulting in some ill feelings in the community. Hytale seems to no longer be engaging in this practice, though only after its support team was called out for it over social media.
Having launched in early access around the middle of January, Minecraft-inspired game Hytale has been making big waves since its release, peaking at around 2.8 million concurrent players. With its intentionally blocky visuals, variety of biomes, and procedurally generated zones, it's drawn a lot of comparisons to its primary source of inspiration, with both its sandbox-style of gameplay and its RPG-like Adventure Mode pulling in fans with a wide variety of play styles.
One of the developer's of the sandbox RPG Hytale speaks out about the game's early access launch and what it took to get the game in a playable state.
With Hytale's various features quickly attracting so much popularity, specific usernames have been hard to lock in, even less than a month into the game's early access launch. Now, reports allege that members of the game's staff have been...
