Flouride

So, I got the bounty quest from Adecco to kill Nomu the Marauder. I go into the encounter seeing that Nomu is in his bear form. After I've killed everyone (including Nomu in his bear form) a man appears on the screen that I can target for looting. Got 2 coppers out of him and he just keeps standing there without me being able to target him again. He looks very alive. I got the quest done and proper loot from the encounter. So really a minor glitch. Haven't tried to repeat it though.

I think porting it to Nintendo Switch would be up to Paradox since they were/are the publisher on that game.

Do you honestly expect a bug free game at launch? Even the CRPGs with millions more used on Q&A are buggy at launch. When you create a something as big as Deadfire, Skyrim, Fallout, Mass Effect or Baldur's Gate there will be bugs. Hell, I've had more show up while playing Red Dead Redemption. When you create something as big as that, no matter how long you tweak it, bugs wil appear when there are 100 000 - 10 000 000 people playing the game instead of the 100 Q&A guys you have playing it.

Too many damn games. Around 350 games. I've finished about 100 of them for good. Some are humble bundle games that I won't touch after trying them, some were bad purchases that I've since abandoned. But about 150 games still to finish with 200 still on wishlist. I need to retire early from work and just play these damn games.

Alt-right and Eastern Europeans do have plenty in common when it comes let's say refugees, LBGT and such issues. They will just hate each other on some other topics

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You know why? Because their lawyer has probably told them to shut the **** up in case they are planning to take it to court. Chris is looking for reactions and they aren't playing his game.

Because he can't keep it together long enough. He did go after Infinitron previously as well. He is human after all, though this just makes it seem like he is actually posting under the influence of something. Which makes you think if his "everything is fine and I couldn't be better" is just a huge front and he is a wreck. Right, but you seem to misunderstood how sever this is by posting on a public forum. Where thousands of eyes, of all profession, will take notice. It's one thing to vent at home, or with your friends, but it is another to vent on a public forum. How come I don't understand? I understand perfectly fine how big of a deal it is. Either he can't keep it together because everything isn't fine and dandy as he makes it seem or he is drinking or doing some other subtances that mess with his mind. Either way it takes away some of his credentiality and makes him look bad, or well worse. Not that all the dirty laundry was doing him any favours.

Because he can't keep it together long enough. He did go after Infinitron previously as well. He is human after all, though this just makes it seem like he is actually posting under the influence of something. Which makes you think if his "everything is fine and I couldn't be better" is just a huge front and he is a wreck.

Every day is saturday when you work from home.

I assume most people would rather pay someone they know and consider a friend rather than giving the business to someone they don't know at all. Not every decision is made based on cost alone even at well ran companies. LOL no, if you run a business you don't just choose a friend, not considering the cost. Sure, if your friend does a great job AND he/she asks a fair price, you employ him/her. But if there are competition out there who also do a good job with a more competitive price, you would be foolish to not choose them. Of course you can do that if you don't care about the money, but you have to have a really well running studio to do that. And Obsidian is not a very well running studio. Well, your whole question is pointless when we don't know the price for their accounting firms nor what others would charge. Usually friends and relatives get a discount when doing business together. That's at least how things work around here. I doubt paying little extra for accounting would make a dent on the budget Obsidian is running with.

I assume most people would rather pay someone they know and consider a friend rather than giving the business to someone they don't know at all. Not every decision is made based on cost alone even at well ran companies.

That would still leave them with plenty of ****ed off workers who would leave the company pretty much immediately when given an opportunity. That just makes no sense.

I just don't believe they would refuse to payback their workforce. That would just lead to massive loss of workforce and no one would ever want to work for them after a stunt like that. It might have been a off-hand comment or meant as a joke. But as serious comment, just seems out of this world and would leave them open to getting sued by their employees. I guess Chris' friends at Obsidian have multiplied, he claimed earlier he only has 1 friend left at Obsidian. It's a **** move from Avellone to bring in others into his arguments. Throwing Sawyer, Fenstermaker, Gonzales and Ziets into the mix isn't a nice guy move. If anything it makes him seem as a bad as the partners he is commenting on. Proposing Ziets as the Creative Lead seems like weird option as well. He wasn't employed as a full time employee at Obsidian at that point. That's bad management from Avellone right there. While Ziets might be the most talented option out of the group, you can't give a title like that to someone who was brought in as a stretch goal. I can't even imagine how upset the writers at Obsidian would have been at that choice.

Please, don't excuse nepotism. IDK how things are run at Obsidian but I seen enough daddy's babies enough to know they will never get the real work experience. There might the odd exception where the kid is actually hard working and putting in the effort but no worker is going to risk pressuring them. There's a world of difference between working for your family and working in your family's company. If there's an actual position for his kids, then I don't see it as a problem. Naturally when the kids are still kids, not even teenagers there's it's plain retarded to hire them. What is a 10 year old supposed to do? Ruin launch parties by taking the spotlight from the actual developers? Hiring them as part time Q&A or something similar to give them a look at the industry isn't a bad idea (when they are of age to work). Most privately owned companies do hire relatives to smallish roles in the company to give them job experience and some money to spend which is totally fine. If however you start creating job titles for your kids and hiring them when they are clearly not adept of doing the job, then yea.. you do have a problem and it will create problems with the actual workforce.

The recent jab about Fair Market Value might put that a little into context. Say, 15 years ago, Chris bought-in as a 20% owner for $200k. He further said FMV was adjusted a little bit since then, but not much. When it was decided that e would be "de-ownered", the buyout offer for his 20% stake in the company might have only been for $300k, even if Obsidian has significantly grown in the last decade. Rather than deal with the terms a buyout might subject him to, he rode off into the sunset deciding that freedom to do what he wanted was worth more than what was being offered. So they can force a buyout according to US laws?

To me, the biggest issue is the timing. People have asked before about the issues that lead to him leaving Obsidian, but he either didn't comment or said he was under NDA. Now suddenly just before Obsidian's biggest game is about to launch he comes forward with everything he has. Some of it is quite ****ing trivial (oh, boo-hoo his forum account is locked) and normal corporate stuff. Yes, sure Obsidian is at fault as well, clearly they haven't dealt with the issue properly back then, but then again some of what Chris is saying doesn't add up. Unless of course the US corporate laws are totally insane. Chris claims he doesn't want to hurt the developers at Obsidian, but his tirade is doing exactly that, while his main target obviously is Feargus (who he thinks is incompetent) and the Parkers. I don't know maybe Feargus is an evil mastermind, or Parker is a psychopath who gets rids of everyone who looks at him the wrong way. But, how he could lose his stake in the company without getting paid for his share of stock is quite unbeliavable to me. Losing his medical insurance is quite normal, he quit. Should they pay for it after he quit? The NDA part, he implied or people misunderstood that it meant forever, but clearly that is not the case and he hasn't cleared that out either which is quite a ****ish move. It's totally understandable from Obsidian's point of view. He is/was a partner in the company so that NDA protects them for at least some period of time. And apparently it's not even forceable in California... So why bring it up? Just to hurl something at the "upper management" and see if people bite on it? Nepotism claims... If you are starting a company, naturally you want to help out your family and friends when possible. That's human nature. He claims Feargus is bad with money, yet the company is still running when most mid sized indie developers are gone. So is he really that bad at running the business? Chris even claims there's a curtain he couldn't see through, so he is claiming Feargus is bad at it without knowing everything and while the evidence point out that Feargus has kept them from going under. To me it sounds like Chris, when he realized that he enjoyed freelancing more (FTL and Wasteland 2) decided to cash out and he needs that money for the cancer treatments his mother is having. At which point he realized his stock isn't valued as it should be, goes after Feargus/Parker to get his stock prize up so he can get millions instead of few dimes. They shoot him down obviously, since they can't afford to pay him out at the right stock prize. Chris goes on a tirade and doesn't stop until they are forced to buy him out / take away his stock ( which still sounds quite wrong from my legal understanding, but it's MURICA so who knows) and they offer him an olive branch (to keep working on Tyranny). Which he takes as a **** you and quits then and there. I feel bad for Avellone, I really do. Going through family member having cancer is horrible. It leaves scars that never heal, but at the same time I don't think his timing or actions on this issue are healthy for anyone involved (that includes the 175 staff members at Obsidian).

So, umm. What kinda ****ed up laws do you have in USA if you can just take away someone's owner stake from a company and not pay a dime for it. To me that just sounds ridicilous. Unless they faked his signature on some documents I'm pretty sure it couldn't be done here.

Exactly this. And if you want to think about the experiment, it might not be about the person asking for it. It's about how you ask. You need to sell your idea and some people just can't do it, they take the first no as an answer and settle for it instead of coming up with an argument that will win their crowd over. Avellone's behaviour and experiments might have truly created some of the toxicity over at the design/writer team or maybe Eric Fenstermaker is just that much of an ***hole that everyone left, including him. Gonzales and Ziets are wise to stay out of it. Avellone dragging Eric into the dirt didn't raise his stock in my eyes. If anything they could come out and say that Eric didn't drive them away if the claims are blatant lies.

Chris always makes it sound like he wasn't part of the "upper management". He was a partner in the company, not some slave they bought off the market. Some of those bad decisions made in the past were done by Avellone as well. Prior to this day Avellone hasn't really said much about Obsidian, now that he has companies willing to bet on him might think otherwise. Chris has a habit of blaming everyone around him and himself as well (after years have passed). Chris created the whole metacritic issue with Bethesda, when he blamed them for missing out on the bonus. Feargus had to come and rescue the situation. Now he is going after Feargus and the upper management with guns blazing. Who is the next target? Whoever he feels have slighted him?

Companies don't badmouth their former employees in the open, that's just common practice. Every single contract termination is done in good will and they wish the former employee all the best. If companies would badmouth their employees they would get sued faster than you can read this sentence. Which makes it easy for MCA to go on rampage at Codex when he knows that Obsidian can't and won't reply to his claims. If anything they would take him to court for damage caused which would bleed out both MCA and Obsidian. So yeah, don't really feel like Chris is doing anyone a favour here.

It's easier to remain in good graces with everyone when you aren't actively working in the same building with everyone else. You are just doing your own thing and once you are done, you move on. But once you put those same people into the same office for 10 years, things start to happen. Any source for that Matt&Trey comment? I've missed that. Ubisoft own the rights though, why would they outsource the game somewhere when they have about 50 studios of their own who can create the game.

They don't want to lose money either. Fallout: New Vegas DLCs were perfect size for the 10 dollars/euros they cost. If these are anything like those 4 DLCs, it will be just fine.

It's not cut content, they've been working on it quite a long time while putting finishing touches on Deadfire. They can start creating levels and art way before the release date of Deadfire due to the content being locked for the game and thus artists, level designers etc. need something to do. Either they get shipped to work on an another game or they create DLCs, or they are out of a job... Adding companions so "late" into the game is kinda pointless though, so I can see their reasoning if there are no new companions.

That's rich. You pick your battles carefully on this thread, commenting "only" on the nonsense and try to play the victim game while ignoring all the valid points made in this thread. At least you are a lot better than your average forum troll. r00fles!