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Do they have a dedicated writer, or does the writer also program? (on smaller teams people become multidisciplinary) For SRR they seem to have a dedicated writer. Or at least the writer is not a progammer. As far as I know Jordan does not code, he does the writing and has managerial duties, but no programming ones?

How does writing or resolution affect the ability to code a save-feature? The writing is done by someone else in the team and so is most likely the whole graphicsystuff.

This thread needs the proper musical theme:

The stupidly success of 1,8 million? It's a lot but not that much. Compared to what they were asking and what other kickstarters get? Let's not compare to PE or Torment, those were really odd ones out. But they asked for 400k and got 1.8mil, 4.5 times as much as they claimed they needed to finish the game. It all looks like a lot of miscalculations on their part.

The checkpoint system kinda gives me the "bad console port" feel without it being a port I'm not happy though that they has such a stupidly successful kickstarter campaign and then say that they did not have the money to implement a proper savegame function.

Well, the book isn't out yet, I have time to learn restraint. If you are making excuses before the book has even hit the shelves, that doesn't bode well for the campaign

So we don't get to have an online Obsidian forum Numenera campaign because you couldn't control your gaming urges...

*raises hand*

That's why I don't really read backer updates for anything but Dead State, where Brian told us he would not do story spoilers of any sorts

Now I'm curious what the image was

I think it does give the writers some itneresting possibilities to explore. I will try to not read anything else about the story though so I can find out things when the game is ready. Bad enough I know that I'll be the discarded shell of a body-hopping immortal

http://www.gog.com/news/new_gaming_options_on_gog_we_want_to_hear_from_you i remembered them e-mailing this to us shortly after the Omerta DLC became available. I was fine with it, largely because I figured it might effect some of the indie games on there. Not like this though with Shadowrun. Depending on how this goes, I might change my logo there to a little silver poo trophy. I still hate Ticketmaster more. Meh. I never got that email :/

What survey?

Because you have been trying to take over the world?

We will know on Frday I guess. but the wording that the Berlin DLC will be a one-time-update to the DRM free-version is a bit strange. Because as much as some people want to say that "All it means is that you will only need to install the Berlin DLC once to run it." I just can't take that explanation seriously So the question is why say that? *shrug*

True, for Haunts, scale was very likely something that played a major part. I wouldn't go as far as using terms as "malicious" and hope I didn't come across that way But I do think that HBS knew they were announcing something not everyone would be happy about but chose to go the "exciting news!" route regardless. But we'll seee what they'll have to say Friday.

To a large part the wording of the update was quite poor though. They did not say that for reasons XYZ they are going with Steam exclusively. They said they looked into things and then decided that it will be awesome to go with Steam the same way other awesome games have done and that Steam is awesome. They tried giving it a rather cheap marketing spin. In that they went completly against the transparency a lot of people expect from kickstarter projects. In stark contrast I'd place the Haunts kickstarter which actually failed to create the final product. The updates outlined the problems and how that happened and the majority of backers were very supportive. Maybe if HBS had tried less to play the iconic used car salesman and instead explained part of the process of how such a decission was reached, then more people would be more understanding. I can't promise I would be. I do know though that I did not ask for a refund when Rick offered them for Haunts; instead I tried to be as supportive as one can through the kickstarter comment section. So I do know that a bit of openess works wonders with me at least.

They added him in an update for subscribers around the time it went F2P I think. (though it was known he would be added since before release) I hear the missions to get him are rather tedious.

Actually I knew this really pretty lawyer once. Tried to go out with her. She didn't want to go out with me But yeah, I agree with you.

It's not a what may happen thing. It's the "We know we promised you this stuff DRM free, ok you'll get it. But anything after that, patches and the planned DLC will be Steam only." And actually, believe it or not, there are hobbies outside gaming Draconian DRM on everything that would make me want to not game? Awesome, I'd get less distracted from drawing and writing

Good post on the SRR forum, Shady

On an unrelated note to the merits and faults of Thatcher. BruceVC, am I a bad person for looking at this thread this morning and thinking "Thatcher may be dead, but !" ?

The demo is terribly bugged as well. Definitly worth staying away from the demo. But the game isn't hard, though ettins etc can be really annoying.

Just don't expect the bestestest story ever. I find some of the side quests and faction quests rather good and the premise has potential, but as a whole, the story falls short of all the advertising they had done for it. But it can be a pleasant, fun run if you give it a chance.

Meh, even with headstart, Pancake was taken as a character name on every server I tried. So no running around as a Padawan Pancake :/ Ruined the whole Jedi thing for me