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  1. Monte Carlo
    I've been here about eleven years. Never went away.
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  3. Monte Carlo
    Barbarians FTW
  4. Monte Carlo
    BWAHAHAHAHA feel the power of DUNGEON FUNGI
  5. Monte Carlo
    This whole thread is Point. Not. Found.
  6. Monte Carlo
    I was always a sucker for Chromatic Orb: low level spells that level up with you are awesome.
  7. Monte Carlo
    It's a favourite theme of mine, but the issue is threefold: 1. A culture of expectation and entitlement: People are used to getting stuff for free. It's the MOAR culture. The internet has made the distribution of Free Stuff completely normal. For example, look at the posts concerning top tier content: "I don't mind it if I get it free at a later point in time." 2. A culture of greedy publishers: This might seem contradictory, but it isn't. For every free-to-play or $1.00 app there's an EA / Bioware style day-one DLC culture too. So customers and producers are in this stand-off. 3. A level of ignorance unawareness of the production process: I am certain that the internet is full of people who think that every night the Content Fairy visits MCA and leaves a fresh, fully-realised NPC under his pillow. Writing dialogue is graft. Making content is graft. It costs money and if you want quality you have to pay for it (see point 1). Add to this the whiny, over-entitled culture of the internet, it's tendency to encourage groupthink, and you have a perfect storm of misunderstanding.
  8. Monte Carlo
    You want to use skills in the dungeon, right?
  9. Monte Carlo
    I hope the tongue-in-cheek part of my post comes across exactly as intended... as mocking attacks on RPGCodex. humor is hard enough - humor in a forum post, forget about it Oh yes. I've heard it all. And I know you are joking. We have a bad reputation to the general public, but in our heart all we want are GOOD role-playing games. Period. Hmmm. All the Codex want are RPGs that fit their straight-jacketed perception of what constitutes an old-school RPG.
  10. Monte Carlo
    LOL. Bye. It's like banging your head against a brick wall.... Tales of the Sword Coast went gold by the time BG1 shipped. This is nothing new. It's not Day One DLC. You're still getting a great game for $20. The Internet. The Internet never changes.
  11. Monte Carlo
    Well, I guess they hope that PE will be a commercial success. Many of us believe it will, but it's not guaranteed. But then again kickstarter projects are not guaranteed to successfully deliver on their goals in the first place. If your reward includes a copy of the game, what it actually means is that if the development of the game succeeds as planned, then you will get a copy of it. Similarly, if your reward includes a copy of the expansion, what it actually means is that if the development of the game succeeds as planned, and if after that it sells enough copies to fund development of an expansion, and if the development of the expansion then succeeds as planned, then you will get a copy of it. Yes, it means you have to go out on a limb. But that's what you are doing anyways, whenever you support a Kickstarter project. It is up to you to decide, which risks are acceptable for the amount of money you choose to pledge. If you are unsure about the expansion, simply ignore it and only choose the corresponding tier if you would have chosen it anyways. Dude you are too logical for the internet. My problem is that I could stretch to the $165 but I want my collector's tier. Well, its not that much of a problem because I'm getting quite a lot of goodies at my physical CE tier but personally the digital only $165 isn't for me as W2 doesn't float my boat.
  12. Monte Carlo
    About expansion packs... I followed BG1's dev cycle closely at the time. After it shipped a dev commented (quite innocently) that Tales of the Sword Coast had gone gold by the time BG1 shipped. There is nothing new about staging content without it being 'Day One DLC.'
  13. Monte Carlo
    The Internet - a place where good news is immediately bad. An XP shows commitment to the setting and the potential for future releases. Which means more cool games. Srsly, what's not to like about this news?
  14. Monte Carlo
    Remember Heart of Winter? Some people thought it was a bit short. Sawyer acknowledged that he could see why some people might feel that way and the next thing we know they push out TotL for free. Past behaviour as an accurate metric of future performance. I'll eat my hat if Obsidian let you down on something as crucial as an XP. I'm totally chilled about it.
  15. Monte Carlo
    Well, I know it's not exactly scientific but every time I refresh the Kickstarter page the pledge total goes up a bit.
  16. Monte Carlo
    There's no problem, people are agitating for more stuff for less. It's natural. But it's still agitating for more for less.
  17. Monte Carlo
    He's not whining, he's offering constructive criticism. There's a difference. We beg to differ. The dude is saying "I want more for less." Like a game like this pops up every other month. I upped my pledge over the weekend knowing it wouldn't get me to another tier because I support the Kickstarter.
  18. Monte Carlo
    Why can't they wait until it's released?
  19. Monte Carlo
    So you're sitting on the equivalent of a trip-and-a-half at Starbucks, you've got a game that would retail for more than twenty bucks and you're whining? Sheesh.
  20. Monte Carlo
    * Views Kicktraq with interest *
  21. Monte Carlo
    Never underestimate the power of internet-generated entitlement.
  22. Monte Carlo
    Emirikol the Chaotic casts.... BUMP
  23. Monte Carlo
    Let's put it this way --- reputationally they would be pretty stupid to promise something they can't deliver. Furthermore, you me and that bloke sitting over there all know that this game is going to be a hit. Apres-Kickstarter sales will be solid.
  24. Monte Carlo
    Ha ha ha they are soooo close to get me to up my pledge it's becoming a sort of game of brinkmanship. What other stretch goals and / or goodies will hove into view before I crack. It is, I admit, a pleasant dilemma even if I really can't afford it.
  25. Monte Carlo
    I will up my pledge if Sawyer appears on the live feed next week wearing a chainmail mankini.
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