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Demiurge4 posted:I'm curious to know why you'd even bother to go physical. A purely digital distribution would be a very simple thing to do and being on Steam guarantee's you decent sales, is there really enough of a market for physical copies left to make this attractive? Physical fulfillment meaning backer rewards maybe? I also believe the physical PC market is alive and well in Europe.
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lordfrikk posted:Something like Harry Potter meets Bully. I'd play the poo poo out of that game. Also, someone needs to make a game like Bully. Loved that game.
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These days I'd only buy a physical PC game if it included a proper manual, not the dinky crap we get nowadays but a goddamn volume filled with descriptions of lore,spells and abilities.
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Sylphosaurus posted:These days I'd only buy a physical PC game if it included a proper manual, not the dinky crap we get nowadays but a goddamn volume filled with descriptions of lore,spells and abilities. Spiral-bound with Tim Cain recipes in the back. Just like the good old days!
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Kibayasu posted:Physical fulfillment meaning backer rewards maybe?
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Fintilgin posted:Spiral-bound with Tim Cain recipes in the back. Just like the good old days! It's not a proper BI/Troika game if it doesn't have a Tim Cain recipe. Hell, throw in a complete cookbook of Glanfathan themed Tim Cain recipes.
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Disco Infiva posted:It's not a proper BI/Troika game if it doesn't have a Tim Cain recipe. Hell, throw in a complete cookbook of Glanfathan themed Tim Cain recipes. The original Soul Food.
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Tim already wrote his recipe book btw.
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# ? Mar 20, 2014 00:26 |
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Bleh, I donated good money to have Feargus sit in the Obsidian basement stuffing cloth maps and t-shirts into boxes for weeks on end, sobbing quietly the entire time. Here's the press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fignwDZy-SI "We're partnering with Obsidian Entertainment to bring, first of all, Pillars of Eternity to market"
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Does that actually noticeably change anything for kickstarter backers ?
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So there is still some second kickstarter project coming right? Did Avellone speak yet or whatKuiperdolin posted:Does that actually noticeably change anything for kickstarter backers ? no
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Kuiperdolin posted:Does that actually noticeably change anything for kickstarter backers ? What could it possibly change? Obsidian's next Kickstarter will be to have Avellone finish the playthrough of Arcanum.
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Kuiperdolin posted:Does that actually noticeably change anything for kickstarter backers ? Your physical goods will have been touched by swedes, rather than the holy hands of obsidian employees. Lawsuit? Honestly, having a publisher for the literal box printing, cd burning and physical shop distribution makes sense. The idea was to do a game without the problems / shackles a publisher brings. This achieves that just fine. Who cares if a second name goes on the box / in the credits? With the publishers merely publishing not backing the game the balance of power is firmly on obsidians side. I'm sure most publishers would happily take a cut of box sales in exchange for making and distributing said boxes.
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Scorchy posted:"We're partnering with Obsidian Entertainment to bring, first of all, Pillars of Eternity to market"
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Scorchy posted:"We're partnering with Obsidian Entertainment to bring, first of all, Pillars of Eternity to market" Probably future partnership in other projects. Oh God, it's gonna be weird for a while to see both Obsidian and Paradox logo at the same time. For me they always represented different kind of games that I played (RPG and Grand Strategy).
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Masonity posted:Your physical goods will have been touched by swedes I'm pretty sure that's an entirely different kind of kickstarter
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If the lore and maps on Dyrwood, etc, are detailed enough it should be possible to straight up mod the whole continent into CK2
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Accordion Man posted:Crusader Kings: The RPG please. Getting hyped for the worst UI known to man
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Basic Chunnel posted:Getting hyped for the worst UI known to man First of all, I LOVE obsidian AND paradox but the idea of understanding the worst UI of history after several hours and THEN getting a crash to desktop is making me laugh over and over.
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Shadeoses posted:If the lore and maps on Dyrwood, etc, are detailed enough it should be possible to straight up mod the whole continent into CK2 Given the time period of PoE should I start studying CK2 or EU4 modding?
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:I don't think that's true. I mean, it might be true for some backers, even the majority of them, but look at how the press is covering it. Both Eurogamer and Rock, Paper, Shotgun acted flabbergasted, and honestly, while most seem to have taken it well, there were plenty of negative reactions on the Obsidian forums, NeoGAF, Eurogamer comments, etc. It's no skin off my nose, but as a developer you have to tread carefully. Yeah but the press insisted that South Park was incredibly buggy because it's more about what gives good story and about established narratives. I haven't really seen any outcry except from journalists who seem to be predicting that there's going to be a backlash that hasn't materialized. Lugaloco posted:Why is the head image a Skyrim screenshot? This interview is a bit bananas. The same shot was used in an interview where one of Obsidian's post-PoE project ideas was compared to Skyrim in terms of stuff like quest structure. So it's probably tagged as being a PoE shot. It's also a fairly hostile interview so I wouldn't be surprised if the guy just grabbed a random shot on the way to publishing it.
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StashAugustine posted:Given the time period of PoE should I start studying CK2 or EU4 modding?
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Accordion Man posted:EU4 seeing is that Eternity is going through a Renaissance. But actually CK2, for full Elven second-spouse simulation.
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Basic Chunnel posted:Getting hyped for the worst UI known to man Did you already make that joke? I swear someone already made that exact joke.
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Masonity posted:Your physical goods will have been touched by swedes, rather than the holy hands of obsidian employees. As long as my box still gets signed Sawyer, Avellone, Cain and co. I don't care who ends up posting it to me. If they cheat and just do a print of their signatures on the box I'll probably make some sort of disappointed noise.
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Demiurge4 posted:I'm curious to know why you'd even bother to go physical. A purely digital distribution would be a very simple thing to do and being on Steam guarantee's you decent sales, is there really enough of a market for physical copies left to make this attractive? Man the cloth map is where it's all out.
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I'm really leaning towards Druid for my first playthrough now, and I never play hippie nature types. So, congrats Obsidian and ropekid, you've done it again.
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http://aw.my.com/
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Hmm.
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Well, that's... certainly nothing close to what I was expecting. I'll reserve judgment for now, but unless it's got a normal Obsidian-level story to it, I can't see what'll set it apart from other tank games.
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You know, it's kinda ludicrous that the "World of Tanks but modern" idea hadn't occurred to me till now
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Flagrant Abuse posted:Well, that's... certainly nothing close to what I was expecting. I'll reserve judgment for now, but unless it's got a normal Obsidian-level story to it, I can't see what'll set it apart from other tank games. It's a f2p mmo, I doubt the story is gonna be why people play it.
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Looks like it's backed by the start-up U.S. subsidiary of some giant Russian internet company.
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If that's real, I can see why they didn't make a big deal out of announcing it. That said it seems sketch as gently caress *e oh my God it's real. The cancellation of that next-gen project made Obsidz even more desperate than we realized Basic Chunnel fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Mar 20, 2014 |
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Well I really wasn't expecting that!
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# ? Mar 20, 2014 05:41 |
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I hope it becomes an enormously successful cash cow that funds gently caress You: Suck My Dick: The Josh Sawyer Dream RPG.
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What the gently caress? Is this the MMO Obsidian was contracted for assistance on? I assume they're just lending 'idle' art team members or something? Most underwhelming/revolting 'next product' reveal ever.
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Seriously, how bleak is it that Obsidian is working on two Russian MMOs, neither of which make use of their self-proclaimed strengths as an RPG developer.
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Fintilgin posted:What the gently caress? Is this the MMO Obsidian was contracted for assistance on? I assume they're just lending 'idle' art team members or something? Well, if you go check out other "My.com" projects, there's another standard fantasy MMO called Skyforge and the Obsidian logo is down at the bottom of the page. Might just be using their engine for that though, either way its a weird relationship.
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what
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