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Pillars of Eternity Beta - Torment: Tides of the Beetles
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Awesome. Any clue what the big project they were working on in 2012 was?
hemtae
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I want to say it was their Aliens game.
IIRC they also had another game, a microsoft rpg for xbox one. I might be wrong though; awaiting someone with better memory/better informed than me.
Wow what a depressing way to open the docu. I almost forgot about that canned next-gen game! >_<
Yeah this was allegedly the XB1 RPG which they were making for Microsoft with a really weird world setting.
http://kotaku.com/5893427/rumor-obs...-was-for-the-next-xbox-published-by-microsoft
I think it was called Stormlands or something like that.
Did details of the game ever get out? I remember Josh Sawyer mentioning that it was a pretty unique and out there sort of concept/setting, but never saying what it actually was. Probably still under NDAs and shit.
Interesting. I wonder what would cause them to cancel a game like that but keep long running projects like Ryse that went through a really turbulent dev cycle.
Didn't know that they were in that much trouble. The documentary is looking nice.
Aliens: Crucible was cancelled in 2009.
WanderingWind
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Is it out yet?
All I've heard is that it was called Stormlands and that it was funded (then cancelled) by Microsoft.
Wow. Didn't know about this. I wonder if Microsoft regrets cancelling it at this point.
I'm glad they did, I wonder if we would have ever gotten Pillars of Eternity if they hadn't.
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TrueMenace
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In-game close-up of Pallegina's model via Josh Sawyer's instagram:
https://instagram.com/p/z_tYa7Jx_O/?modal=true
Sexy.
https://instagram.com/p/z_tYa7Jx_O/?modal=true
Sexy.
Why would they regret it? Because PoE was a success or because next gen is in desperate need of exclusives?
Irobot82
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Where can I do this at?
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I thought about buying a ton of copies and handing them out to people who thought Dragon Age: Inquisition was the best RPG ever, you know, like alms for the poor? Then I realized they might have mistaken the codes for food and tried to stick it up their noses or something.
Still, it's a good deal for those who want to spread the gospel.
Still, it's a good deal for those who want to spread the gospel.
But its not for consoles WW!
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Not yet anyways!!!
decoyplatypus
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I feel like we discussed this already, but has Obsidian said anything about the break-even point for Eternity? I'm curious what kind of sales figures to be watching for in the first few weeks.
Heavens forfend!
It'll be hard to tell from Steam numbers alone because there ar enon Steam versions, and of course some 80,000 backers or so who already paid.
I don't know that they've said how much more they've invested in PoE, I'm pretty sure they did though, I don't think 3 million covers a game like this.
I think advertising is going to be the issue. If they don't have the millions to put this title up on every browser, they need to have this game being played by the top streamers on youtube/twitch, etc.
Wasn't the whole point of Kickstarter the fact that they had no money to invest in it? I'm still not clear on whether Paradox floated them any $$ for this last delay, or if they had other private investors, but prior to that they were quite adamant about releasing before 2014 year end because that's when the money was going to run out.
hemtae
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Well they've taken on a few more projects since then notably the Pathfinder card game and the Tanks MMO game. Also Brandon Adler said they've put some of their own money in.
Because MS is in desperate need of exclusives. I also have a suspicion (albeit purely gut instinct) that a WRPG exclusive would move some consoles. Especially if the PS4 is looking fairly barren in terms of exclusives for the genre.
But then I'd have to get an Xbone!
Yeah $500 is physical with an additional digital it seems and $1000-3000 level comes with an extra 5 digital copies, 5k Inn an extra 10 and 5k Adventure co comes with 15 and 10k comes with 10.
Interesting, I mean I figured they'd put in something but not exactly a whole hell of a lot. I wonder how that works seeing as both projects are no released so I doubt they've got much in terms of excess cash. As well I'm curious as to how they made out with South Park as that was really well done, though I'm not sure how it actually did sales wise.
So only the really high tiers. Low tier extra copies could inflate the sales numbers on places like steam is why I'm asking. I'm not a fan of giving away tons of copies (also not a fan of physical rewards that drain time and budget)
Yeah of all those extra copies we're talking well below 1k total. But who know's how many people threw in an extra $25 or $60 on the PoE pledge website. But I doubt that will amount to very much more.
terrisus
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Yeah well apparently they are a nightmare for devs to process and deliver so I'm not a fan. I was happy with Hong Kong because they cut down on them and didnt get into trap rewards like T shirts (which are a surprising amount of headache thanks to sizing)
What game was cancelled that they where working on...?
We know, we all know.
hemtae
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On the kickstarter page it looks like the physical + digital download starts at the $65 tier and the two digital copies start at $80 dollar tier.
It was a Xbox One game. http://kotaku.com/5893427/rumor-obs...-was-for-the-next-xbox-published-by-microsoft
decoyplatypus
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No Avellone in the video is making me scared
That he may have been too busy to appear in the first segment (covering the origins of the kickstarter pitch) of a behind-the-scenes video about a game that we already knew was not his baby? I wouldn't worry about it.
terrisus
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Well, I mean, if the price paid for them outweighs the cost, it's a plus.
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Woops you're right. That's a lot more copies then.
Engagement is an abomination of a system for a real-time with pause game.
Ah ok,thanks for the link...
They've had so many games cancelled that it isn't even funny. The Snow White game, their sci-fi rpg, Alien, their Xbone game and whatever game I can't think of right now. I'm just glad that they are alive and kicking. That we are getting Pillars of Eternity is almost a miracle.
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