GrumpyPirate

SNIP Funding is obtained from the customer from a established company. If you are unable to do this then the company should not exist. Obsidian have been around for years and years and years, they have no excuse. They are not new. They do not lack brand recognition. They are not inexperienced and blue eyed in any way The fact is that you are apologizing for monopoly-building. There is no way around it. You are defending the attempted establishment of a monopoly. You really should take a step or two back and consider what it is you are defending mate. Metaphors are clumsy and broad by their very existence and nitpicking on them is frankly silly. They exist to illustrate a point in broad terms and if you are unable to defend your point of view without criticizing a metaphor for being what a metaphor is then you are clearly lacking actual points of argument. And claiming no one can build anything without selling their souls utterly and completely is a pure lie. CDPR built themselves. Valve, the oh so hated dominating force in the marketplace that for some weird reason never tried to force a monopoly situation, was built from valve and never sold out (yes they are degrading but for the purpose of this argument it is beside the point because they attained their position without selling out in this way first). There are plenty of flourishing indie devs that can release good games without selling their soul or falling into anti consumer practices, they just release the game they can make instead of a imaginary game they cannot. And if tiny 1-3 man studios can release games then a huge brand like obsidian can certainly release something even better. May not be AAA+++ but no one excepts or demands this, no one in their actual following anyway. This is just another example of a company that is not satisfied with their money and niche. They want ALL the money and every niche, no matter how absurd and unrealistic this is. And if anything the absurd degradation in quality of actual AAA titles nowadays proves that backing money means nowhere near as much as you think for actually making a good game.

Decision made by the publisher. Clearly Obsidians fault. I love this logic. The thing is that it doesnt matter who made the decision. In this purpose the developer and publisher are one and the same. It may suck for the developer but they are inseparable in guilt because either they are not able to separate or they do not separate and for us, the consumer, the end result is the same. Everything else is just shooting ourselves in the foot and making excuses for greed. This is logic. Your arguments is logic cut in a third and presented as the full result. It is faulty and it is misleading, it is borderline lying. Yes, because Obsidian lacks the funds to self publish, wants to give the consumers the best product they can, and decides that crowdfunding will impair the quality; they are the ones that are at fault for any decision that is made by the publisher. Obsidian should really just decrease the quality of the product, separate from the publisher, and go back to crowdfunding. What could ever go wrong with that! That they lack money is simply not true. It is a lie or you are uninformed. They may not have ALL the money but they certainly have enough and more than enough name recognition to make up for the rest despite squandering alot of it lately. They may not be able to make a AAA+++ game but a very very impressive game can be made on a way smaller budget than the classical AAA studios do. Not to mention all of their recent deals.

The thing is that it doesnt matter who made the decision. In this purpose the developer and publisher are one and the same. It may suck for the developer but they are inseparable in guilt because either they are not able to separate or they do not separate and for us, the consumer, the end result is the same. Everything else is just shooting ourselves in the foot and making excuses for greed. This is logic. Your arguments is logic cut in a third and presented as the full result. It is faulty and it is misleading, it is borderline lying. Spoken like someone who has no idea how contract law and publishing deals work. I suppose developers should divorce from the constraints of reality for us consumers too? Obsidian should have been prescient when the signed the deal to know Epic years later would rocket onto the multiplayer game as a service scene, and launch a store with a salacious deal to wag in publisher's faces. I completely understand and this is the entire point. You however do not understand it seems. When you sign a contract that takes away your independence then you are responsible for what comes from it, good and bad. There is no "but" or "if" or "however". It may be necessary, they may believe it is necessary or it may just be ignorance and greed mixed with intentionally blinding themselves to reality (my money is on a mix of the last and the middle) but in the end it does not matter. They are responsible for their actions and this fact is something that all the apologists in the world and all of the greedy or well-meaning-but-naive companies in the world wants to ignore. Reality is a double edged sword and they want to throw themselves on the blunt end of the blade, giving the illusion that it is a selfless sacrifice to reality. You cannot nitpick on logic, if you choose one branch you have to follow it to the tip.

Decision made by the publisher. Clearly Obsidians fault. I love this logic. The thing is that it doesnt matter who made the decision. In this purpose the developer and publisher are one and the same. It may suck for the developer but they are inseparable in guilt because either they are not able to separate or they do not separate and for us, the consumer, the end result is the same. Everything else is just shooting ourselves in the foot and making excuses for greed. This is logic. Your arguments is logic cut in a third and presented as the full result. It is faulty and it is misleading, it is borderline lying.

Not even that surprised. Obsidian have been slipping for a long time indicating worrying degrees of greed that they are desperately trying to hide behind a cracking facade, I was really hoping this would be their redemption arc but it seems it is rather the epitome and end-result. They have for years released games that are half finished, lacked obviously cut content and prioritized DLC beyond desperately needed bugfixes for some pretty damn critical bugs. And it is especially sad to see with a studio that actually can still make good games otherwise because there are very few of those left in this day and age. Tyranny was clearly cut in half or atleast had a third of the actual game missing. Pillars of Eternity 1 was a great game but it only grew into this after all its DLC was released and bugfixes of several years were out. Pillars of Eternity 2 was a mess, with obvious cut content and game breaking bugs everywhere while they happily dished out DLC for your moneys. I had already decided not to buy more Obsidian games until reviews released and users confirmed it was both rich and actually in a working state but this was the final nail in the coffin. Obsidian you break my heart with this bull**** but as you insist on your moneygrubbing ways and blatantly anti-consumer (Remember that guy? The consumer? The person that made you what you are? The person that raised you and nourished you and once flourished with joy your success and its result? Yeah that guy) practices are the final "**** you" to those of us who loved them and their works. You can go bugger yourselves Obsidian, you are a disgrace and I hope you die in a similar fashion as the studio that once was Bioware. I will never give you a single penny of my hard earned money again until you have proven yourself worthy of it and considering it took you years to earn my regard the first time how long do you think it will take for you to earn it back? You completely and thoroughly disgust me in what you are and what you have become.

Haha seems like Obsidian are being bought by Microsoft. Well that certainly makes sense, those two deserve each other dont they?

Nothing in the new patch notes regarding this being fixed, anyone able to confirm conclusively whetever it is fixed or if the issue is still present?

Yeah it is still very much present, i ran into it several times over several different areas on both area load and loading a save. Finished the game in the end but this almost made me quit several times over. It's extremely annoying to constantly keep an eye on your money and having a single slip cost you several thousands if you are lucky. The game being generally rushed and clearly unfinished certainly doesn't help either. First Tyranny feels like a game cut literally in half and then this mess that is PoE2, really is sad seeing this happen to a studio like Obsidian but i don't really feel like its possible to buy their products within a year or two of launch any more.

Yeah it actually drains your wallet, for the longest time i thought it was just a weird graphical/interface glitch and they just made money harder to amass in this game. By the time i realized it was actually draining my wallet i probably lost atleast 150 or 200k (yes i know, a real case can be made for me being a idiot). And while i am not 100% sure i dont think it has to do with savegame but rather the loading in itself. When i entered an area yesterday i noticed that the issue had struck again so i had to redo it all. When searching for the actual save that caused it I found that it was the autosave from entering the area. After reloading the save 6-7 times i finally managed to get in without the bug activating. No visible variables as i loaded the exact same game so i do not believe the player can affect this at all.

It is one of many bugs they seem to be intentionally ignoring, presumably in favor of making more DLC so they can get more of our money. My personal guess is that whoever is in charge simply doesn't care and intends to patch this when the next DLC is released.

From what i can see this bug is several months old and it is still occurring. I have noticed the daily wage thing but never reflected on it before just thinking it was weird and kinda liked how much "harder" it seemed to be to amass gold in this game than the first. Now however i am completely broke and all my good saves are gone because i failed to notice this until i needed to go shopping. I can see no acceptable reason whatsoever that you have been made aware of this bug several months ago (A simple quick search shows at least since the beginning/mid of June) and the bug is still present. The bug is incredibly game breaking for anyone that fails to notice until after reloading is no longer a option and considering the amount of time that has passed with it being present there are two options. A) You don't give a ****, you got your money out of the game and the community can go **** themselves for all you care. Or B).You are diverting no resources whatsoever, or next to none, into actually fixing a seriously broken game feature because you are to busy making DLC to earn more money. One might argue that there is always the option you are trying but have failed to actually fixed the bug so far but i doubt anyone thinks that you are incompetent. Neither of the above situations are in any way, form or shape acceptable and honestly you should be ashamed of yourselves. Both PoE 1 and 2 are crowdfunded and you would be nowhere without the community, get your **** in order. Yes i may come of as aggressive but that is because i am and i can find no extenuating circumstances whatsoever for you allowing the situation to continue which leads me to the conclusion that i am completely justified in my anger. For anyone that has a job for a living loosing every penny a good way through a game can mean you have wasted literally a hundreds of hours (94,3 hours in my case) of progress and this is an extremely frustrating experience. This kind of a bug should have had a hotfix, even if just a temporary workaround, within a day or two at most. I really don't want to think the worst of Obsidian as a company because there are plenty of bad guys in this business and i would hate to see you join them as well but right now the situation is speaking for itself. So how about some bloody answers instead of a standard template bull**** "Thank you for notifying us, we are looking into it"?