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Regardless, as long as EA holds the franchise, I don't think Obsidian will get another shot. They'd be more likely to give it to Respawn and they likely wouldn't even want to "waste" money on an RPG vs. something they think has a wider audience.

Fair enough. I think Grip Digital's been under the radar for a while despite the fact I think they are the ones primarily working on it, maybe VS EVIL and Obsidian are just filtering bugs for them (although Obsidian seems to have tried to distance itself from the VS EVIL ports).

I think that is significant yes, Fig does not seem to have an effective marketing department (although they claim that's one of the important things they bring to the table). I did like Fig's premise of allowing players to invest in the game, but if their own presence jeopardizes sales, that seems like they just shoot their own company philosophy in the foot (and it definitely backfired on the POE2 investors). Is Fig still around?

I think Obsidian is still patching it but the patches have been very, very slow and they don't correct all the issues. No idea why the Switch port was so bad, I hope they learn their lesson for Deadfire

A little confused if this thread is for all the consoles for Pillars, or just PC. The console versions have a lot of problems the PC version doesn't seem to have (at least the PC version after a few patches) so I didn't want to flood the channel with them unless I knew the right place.

I had the same reaction and wasn't expecting an incline for the ending, but I was surprised that after all the "hunting" (more like following, since there was no urgency) Eothas, it was kind of a confusing conversation and that was it. I found out later the end dialogue was bugged and was missing key info to have it make sense... but even that knowledge didn't change my opinion of the endgame. I don't think every ending needs to be a fight (Fallout 1) but Deadfire's ending was just a huge letdown, it made my journey feel lilke it didn't matter.

I think there might have been exhaustion with Pillars 1 and no desire to play more of it in a sequel, and it's also possible that some players may have felt like they had to play the first one before the sequel... I really doubt it had anything to do with the sequel's quality, I think the issue might have been people's nostalgia for "Baldur's GatE" had played out during the first campaign. Could also argue that Fig didn't market Deadfire well and Fig doesn't have the same attention-grabbing aspects that Kickstarter does, but I can understand with the Obsidian owners being on Fig's board, it was important that they use Fig, even for all its fault and how it might hurt the sales of Deadfire - which seems counterproductive. I also feel bad for the Fig investors in the product, they got screwed as well, but that's the risk you take. Have to confess, I thought Pillars 1 was okay, but I definitely thought the story and characters in the sequel were worse... but that didn't affect my purchase, as I didn't know how the story and characters would be when buying it. I know there was mention of a lot of bugs in Pillars 2's release, so that could have slowed sales as well. It could have done with some more delays for quality, but it looks like they fixed them all (at least the PC version, the console versions still seem kind of... eh).

I had thought I had heard Grip Digital had given up on the ports but that may have been a rumor. I didn't get the impression they and VS EVIL were getting along well, and I'm not surprised considering the state of the ports. 🙃

I do not know if they have a development team that will make a PS5 version since they aren't doing it, right? I got the impression VS EVIL was making these ports, and I don't think they're going to spend more $$$ on them after their first efforts weren't so great.

Not sure this thread is long enough for all the bugs in the PS4 version - or while waiting for levels to load to check bugs. Even if VS EVIL did the port, would be nice to see these fixed and answered.

Isn't there a way to ask them on here? To pass off questions to "another developer" when it's actually their game feels like they're washing their hands of it, which I doubt.

I'd agree on the shallowness of the companion quests. I know players really love Parvarti, but her main quest felt like the writers were just being self-indulgent (and didn't care as much about player choices vs. relating their own experiences).

Do you have to start the DLC in the middle of the game or can you keep playing after the end game?

Also agree on this, especially seeing what Disney has done with the movies. The games have been hit or miss usually ruined by microtransactions (Battlefront2) but I haven't checked out Squadrons.

I assume this is all over and done with for the year? Were you able to hire anyone with COVID ?

I'd love another Poe 3 as well although Avowed seems to be it