There's a difference between "giving up on CH" and moving on to a new project.
CH has had a good, long life. Longer than most games like it (name one other mobile MMORPG that has been around since 2011 and still has hundreds of players logging in daily). It really shouldn't have been a surprise that the leadership wanted to try something new/different (even though yes, I know Odyssey has a ton of similarities to CH, but still - it's different enough).
Generally, most developers only last a few years in a job - they get tired of the same work/project(s) and want to move on to something new. We saw that with OTM as various people came and left. It doesn't just apply to developers though - even the management team comes and goes. Just look at how many CMs OTM went through: Wulver, Kodelia, Muldar. The only people who don't really have the luxury of moving to a different company are the owners of the company. That's why imo it really wasn't much of a surprise to see OTM get disbanded and have VR get founded with a new project in mind - it was really the only way to be able to move on and try something new.
I for one don't see it as "giving up" on CH, but rather moving on to new projects. Essentially they may mean similar things, but they have very different tones.
Also please don't misunderstand me. I really wish that CH will continue on. I have so many good memories of the game, literally almost a decade of friends, pictures, in-game items, etc. I would love to see VR come back in a year or two, once Odyssey is fully launched, and take up a few small content updates throughout the years. Maybe VR will be able to hire someone to oversee a small dev team that focuses exclusively on CH. Maybe that's already the plan, but they temporarily have all hands on deck for Odyssey. We don't really know, all we can do is guess.
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