[citation needed] The deployment of Dawn suffered many technical issues, leading to extended server downtime and certain game features being disabled directly after the release.

This, combined with early balancing issues, lead to extensive weight loss among player avatars which in turn caused attribute penalties.

[citation needed] In late August 2012, the game's second expansion titled "The Awakening" was released which promised notable new features like trade brokers, player-written books, revamped GUI, the unveiling of Tindrem, roaming guards of varying ranks, advanced AI for NPCs, illegal items, additional skills and a host of other improvements and fixes.

[citation needed] The expansion introduced a multitude of bugs that affect the game's mechanics, performance and stability.

[citation needed] In late November 2012, Star Vault began to offer a "Free to Play" option.