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You'll get what you were promised first, the backer site list was just incomplete. It's being/been fixed.

I thought it was too short to judge, but I do hope to see a lot of ambient music that isn't overly bombastic, and perhaps some very melodic pieces for inns and the like would be really nice.

I just want to thank the mods, you're doing great work and I'm sure it's pretty hectic right now. Thanks!

So, I was wondering what the public opinion is currently on the changes Youtube has brought about recently. I have never been a fan of how difficult it is to provide real feedback to real persons working for Youtube. The site is designed for maximum insulation of the staff. Understandable for a site which is visited by hundreds of millions of people every day, but also a serious weakness where there is no place for criticism, appeal or feedback. Nor was I particularly pleased to see how Youtube, for years, has handled takedown notices, where the appeal process didn't exist, and the only people managing to successfully appeal where those with vast followings or those who have 3rd party representation thanks to their contracts. (like those who are part of machinima) This has always been an issue (remember guywiththeglasses?) But has become especially poignant recently with even bigger blanket takedowns. Certainly I wasn't too pleased when it became impossible to load an entire video but only see a minute buffered at maximum. The new player turning out to be directly inferior to the old one. Then they changed the comment system to be more like social networks, because that's completely inspired and original. Then along with the previous, Youtube abandoned all pretence of not being evil by effectively forcing anyone with an account to link their private data to their account by accepting Google+, something the vast majority of Youtube end-users explicitly do not want. I've managed to hold off so far, but that means I cannot save a video to my favourites (pop-up appears to set up my Google+ account) comment or like a comment (ditto) Now Google has introduced takedown bots with increased zeal, which without review or appeal take any content which has even a small part of copyrighted content (even if used under fair use, or with used with explicit permission, even) and either take it down, or force the uploader to pay royalties. This amounts to giving the industry the ability to blanket censorship, power which they are already widely abusing. I think this spells the end of Youtube, even giants may fall, and there are still alternatives where users can move to. It didn't happen before because content creators where largely unaffected, with some exceptions. The new system is so broken that I'm confident that content creators themselves will jump ship. And if the consumer hostile practices of Youtube, the innovation and creativity stifling, job killing legislation of the DMCA aren't changed, I say good riddance.

they just lost one.

missing, it was during the kickstarter period even though it was paypal (october 12th 2012)

I believe so, just donate via paypal first, and confirm it on the backer site later.

Hard to find quests and areas which you can easily miss, for explorers

The problem with that is that because of the limitations of the medium, serious compromises would have to be made that aren't necessary for keyboard + mouse. It's not just the control scheme, but the amount input you are required to deliver playing. Plus the game would have to be ported to consoles, which would also require deals with Microsoft and Sony. While I might be wrong, I do believe that the target audience for this type of Role-playing game is also mostly PC gamer. Besides PC's have the lovely advantage of mod support.

level 20 of commandos has a bad-ass castle too.

We are the PC gaming master race

I'm curious who would write the new companions. I know they got Patrick Rothfuss for Torment:ToN, it'd be cool if he could write one here as well.

So the pillars of eternity, are they pillars of Adra? that shiny material of which the logo seems to be made? this material was considered valuable, perhaps it stores souls or soul energy? A way to keep your soul eternal? Maybe it provides a portal or link to the world where souls go before reincarnation? making every site with Adra interesting for diviners and the like.

I care, but I think it's going to be an interesting addition.

Lone wolf seems to be already taken, just sayin'

Hmm, I usually play charismatic characters, but I suppose there will be other ways to role-play them. I guess I'll focus on Intellect, dexterity, perception and then resolve, and dump con and str.* *subject to change when I actually learn what the attributes do.

Every time I'm worried you come to the rescue -- I get many in this thread who are opposed, you bring good arguments. Those who are for more stretch goals, like myself, I think are just enthusiastic about getting as much as we can. Greedy as that may be, I've been following the interviews and this forum since the kickstarter ended, and every time the scope and time management is brought up, I can see how dedicated Obsidian is to structure and planning time for each feature. I'm confident that if new stretch goals were added, this scope management would still be up. Obsidian has a reputation to fix when it comes to releasing on time and bug-free, and I believe they are determined to make that happen. Question for the devs: Would new stretch goals only include companions and wilderness areas? or would the backers be polled as to what they would like to see?

funny, I did the same thing, it's shown now as "donation" but I did not get that menu. Maybe I did something wrong. Anyway it's now listed as "ok" with the big green checkmark and I cannot edit it, so I hope I didn't do anything wrong. At least it's listed along with my digital game only tier.

I don't know why everyone seems so elated, I showed the gameplay teaser to a friend of mine who doesn't know anything about this game and his reply was "Looks generic", which kind of echoes my sentiment. Maybe I'm just hard to please, but the gameplay teaser is a big meh. In combat you see the party members complete stock still unless they're casting anything. They are hit by lightning and just stand there, all in identical poses. please please please include more animations for the PC's. Not only is a large number of animations useful for the modding community, but it makes it seem a lot more slick. Backer site is awesome, though I'd like to know where I can edit my profile.

strike what I said, more paper doll animations, A WHOLE LOT MORE I say this because the gameplay teaser is looking weird, and it's the character animations that are the cause.

More content, more reactivity in content, more dialogue, more gameplay options, more, just MOAR, is always welcome.

Colour me intrigued. I'm camping out here tonight

How about that speech Obama gave huh, that's one thing he does well (or his speech writers) It was almost embarrassing to see the Brazilian and Chinese speeches after that.

"How can they know? They are slaughtered by the thousands, by disease, by us, by their stupidity, and by their own. But every year there's a new wave of them. Pioneers, seekers of fortune, the desperate and needy, the greedy and the frail. Each year they die by the world they've come to, or the world they were trying to flee. It's like a cancer spreading it's tendrils across virgin soil. Except this is not virgin soil, this is our soil. We've been here long before they even heard of us. These are our secrets they despoil, our forests they burn, our water they poison, and our daughters they rape. Can we stand by as they destroy what they take? Is ignorance an excuse for evil? I have no doubt we have come across their very worst, those that wore out their welcome in their own land. The outcasts of a careless and uncaring society. Why should they make their problems ours? Because they can, because they don't care, because they have no idea of the havoc they cause. They count the treasures they plunder but not the men they lose. There are more men every year, what does the demise of the sordid count? Nothing! I say we must help them! We must cleanse every sordid soul from OUR land. Send them back, the beggars, the thieves and rapists, the slavers and the explorers. We have tried to teach them, but they cannot be taught! We shall burn the harbours they built, we shall burn their boats inside them, we will break Defiance from within! They burn our trees? we'll burn their ships! they poison our water? We'll deprive them of theirs! They steal our sons and daughters? Asheet will Poison their crops! From now on it is everyone's duty to end the occupation. Smile at them, as you sabotage their lives, take their weapons, and use those against them. Any man who ventures outside the city's protection shall perish, inside the city we'll spread plague, as they have in ours, we'll torch their supplies, and we'll not once show our face to them. We will make life impossible for them!" "Those are fierce words, but you should consider, as we make life impossible for them, how much worse will they make it for us? Burn their boats? They'll send more! Burn their harbours? What's to prevent them from building them again? Or do you believe that those stuck on this side will quietly keel over and die? I too lost a daughter to these rapacious beasts! But I've come across better men as well. You say they cannot be taught? I disagree! But in order to learn, one must first be willing to listen! We've kept our secrets and they pillaged them? Would they have done the same if they had known what the results would be? Maybe, maybe not. You rightly say they bring us their worst, and their problems, are we to judge them by their worst? Are their problems not our own? I think they are! It is their lawlessness and isolation which allows the beasts to roar in our night, it is their poverty which drives their greed, their desperation which makes them take risks on hostile shores. We have not been welcoming-" "And why should we be welcoming?" The first time they came here they left half of us dead! My grandfather died, and yours did as well, fighting their treachery! And how do you propose to teach the deaf and the blind? They have no interest in us save as a trade good or a convenient excuse for violence! No my friend, your heart is soft and your mind is weak! We'll begin now, to end their occupation, once and for all!" "There are other ways! petition their lord-" "I do not recognise their pissant lord as a leader on our lands! But since you are so set on your treachery, I have a proposal to make! How about you go to their plague ridden city, and teach, meanwhile, we'll do something useful! Go! you are banished! go lick the heels of your new masters while we take back what is ours by right!"