Goat Simulator, the divisive bug-fest written as a joke before turning into Coffee Stain Studio's biggest-selling title, is to get a free expansion pack inspired by the work of Blizzard on World of Warcraft: Goat MMO Simulator.
Positioned by its creators as little more than a joke and coming with the warning that '
Goat Simulator is a completely stupid game and, to be honest, you should probably spend your money on something else, such as a hula hoop, a pile of bricks, or maybe pool your money together with your friends and buy a real goat,' Goat Simulator
reviewed poorly but has proven a real money-spinner for Coffee Stain Studios. While its previous entirely-serious games Sanctum and Sanctum 2 sold a joint 1.6 million copies, Goat Simulator alone has sold 1.1 million copies on PC and a further 500,000 on mobile following its recent porting, making it the company's biggest selling single game thus far.
To reward fans, the company - the PR manager of which, Armin Ibrisagic, jokes in his official press release is '
now transitioning their video game company into a free-range goat farm,' - has announced a new expansion pack for the game dubbed Goat MMO Simulator. As the name suggests, the patch expands the destroy-everything-while-being-a-goat gameplay into a massively multiplayer online experience set in a fantasy realm. The company is open that it took inspiration from the decade-and-counting MMO World of Warcraft for the expansion, with chief executive Anton Westbergh joking '
If anyone from Blizzard Legal is reading this then please don’t sue, be cool.'
Screenshots available on the company's official
Facebook page appear to show genuine multiplayer elements, including an in-game chat window, along with role-playing features including various classes in a character creation system and experience points being earned through destructive acts. How deep the new features will run, of course, remains to be seen: at heart, Goat Simulator is still a joke product.
Goat MMO Simulator will launch on Steam as a free download on the 20th of November, while a preview video is embedded below for the curious.
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