melkathi

I don't see an issue with legality. They promised Steam and GOG keys. They have made the change to the announcement that they will provide Steam and GOG keys with a delay. They have offered full refunds to anyone who is not OK with it. So I am not seeing what deal they aren't honoring as far as the letter of the law goes.

I wouldn't be surprised. It is an ambitious project and very much looks like one people would miscalculate the costs of.

Yeah, They added it within the first two hours of the announcement, but it apparently wasn't in the initial text. I just can't get all that up in arms about it, because it is less problematic than Harebvrained's announcement for Shadorwun Returns back when they were going to go Steam exclusive and would drop the promised GOG keys, because after nearly finishing the game, and having wasted most of backer's cash on scrapping everything and changing engine, and dropping the in-game mod support, they finally read the licensing agreement with Microsoft and found out they had to have DRM. Then we were supposed to blame evil Microsoft and rally around the poor devs who made promises to backers without reading the contracts they were signing. Harebrained had not offered refunds. How could they, they had already wasted all the money. Snapshot on the other hand is making an stupid move, but it does come out of deliberation. It may enrage part of gamer culture for a while, but that may blow over, and if it turns out the way they hope it may make the studio healthier. And the addendum to the FAQ came out a LOT faster. Doesn't mean it doesn't suck, but people have put up with this kind of **** moves before. And correct me if I'm wrong, but on this forum I am in the vast minority holding a grudge over the SR thing; most people forgot or didn't care.

They have clearly stated on the Phoenix Point website that backers will get the Epic Store key and then, after a year also a choice of either Steam or GOG. https://phoenixpoint.info/epicfaq?_ga=2.50455979.366310557.1552422198-21793489.1539077113

I think currently I am having more fun uninstalling games than actually playing them.

Asura are also the species with the better written starting area.

I'd need my game serial code to recover my Arenanet account. I am not getting the boxes down from the loft.

Yeah, I have 22 characters in Champions Online. 5 at level cap. 1 close to max.

The pirate dlc is nice as well, even if the titans in teeth of naros have a more original feel. (Autocorrect changed Naros to Maria...)

The other thing with choices that bothers me is that the games end and the choices are set. Time freezes and your character becomes irrelevant afterwards. Let's say you choose to help group a instead of group b when time constraints did not allow you to do both before whatever story event. The game ends and group be never received any help so... wait. After the story event, with the pressure taken off the character they could have gone and helped out. Yes, the help would be too late for the ideal outcome, but still it could have come. Spellforce 3: if I marry off npc a to npc b, merging the two noble houses under power hungry npc b, after the story ends, what stops my character from taking their army - which would still dwarf the army of npc b - and put pressure on him, if npc a told me he wasn't behaving? Imagine Mission were to get married and asked Revan to give her away at her wedding. After the game ends, Mission's husband turns out to be abusive. He'd get a knock at the door and find himself face to face with some very angry force users.

Silly thing is, it probably is the last decision before the final battle. If it weren't for it, it is a reasonable guess that I would have finished the game this evening.

Why do they have to put choices in my games? I keep taking breaks from Spellforce 3 because I can't make up my mind when faced with choices. Tell both noble houses to go to hell and ally with neither? Marry off the sister of one of my party members to the power hungry lord of one house, give him enough power to intimidate the other house into joining us? Or poison the guy's drink for the other lord to join?

5 months and 3 days 'till Planetfall.

Mutant Year Zero is not too long. It becomes more of a puzzle than tactics, as you try to figure out the optimal way of playing each map. Had fun with it.

I liked the story of the first one, but found the gameplay bland and uninspiring. As a KS backer I was very disappointed (was my first KS too). I enjoyed the second one a lot more. Very much improved in every way. Third game started promising but somehow lost me. Can't really put a finger on it why.

Not much of a fan, but Humble has a sale on the Shadowrun games people seem to enjoy. https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/shadowrun-franchise-sale/

The DLCs are fun as well. I think I deleted my character and made a new one when I realised that Dispel could have saved the fae in that quest

Steam has one big advantage. You might be able to grab me for co-op

Maybe you can get it on sale at some point. If you enjoyed the game and the setting, some of those DLCs are very good.

Possibly you are missing something. Other than the main story, there were the DLC stories, centered around a specific character, with a few more making guest appearances. So Oscar Mike has a DLC where he goes back to Mike training school. If you play the DLCs with the right characters they unlock bonus skins, but they also have some more story dialogue during that mission.

Oscar Mike wasn't for me. Alani was at least for a long time considered easy mode. I also played Ambra and Mellka a lot. Shayne and Aurox are the most fun dialogue wise. I enjoy Orendi for the sheer destructive power, but solo someone who can heal (Alani) has their advantages. For the mission pack obviously you should try to play them through once with each of the story characters. I got bored after the Oscar Mike story pack. It already had juvenile writing, and the Montana one after that felt rushed. The Attikus story pack was the best. The Toby one was still fun. If only they had made the game single player / co-op instead of a team arena thing.

You wanted to gather all the spoilers in one place?

No. Been waiting for you to try it.

Witcher III has tilesets?

I'm still waiting for sonic to play Child of Light. I'll boycott the forum until he does