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Been binge-watching Miami Vice commercial-free on Starsz. As a product of the 80s I love that show, cheese and all.

Non Disclosure Agreement. They can't say **** publicly about this until the NDA runs out. Would Microsoft ever agree on such transfer of games? I seriously doubt that. Aside from just plain NDA considerations, it's bad business to publicly disparage your business partners. That's a quick way to turn needless drama into needless drama with a lawsuit attached. And as far as Microsoft goes, it does look like they already did throw their weight around. If they didn't intervene, TOW would likely be a true Epic exclusive, and not have a simultaneous PC release on the Microsoft Store. Well, they don't have to disparage anyone. Couldn't Obsidian just say something like: "This was entirely a Private Division decision as the publisher of the game, and we had nothing to do with it. Please refer all questions to Private Division."

I don't understand why I should give Obsidian's upper management the benefit of the doubt. Yes there's no evidence they supported this; but equally there's no evidence they didn't. So it's a matter of how each of us subjectively chooses to see things, isn't it? I love the Obsidian devs. But I do harbor concerns about Obsidian's upper management (and no, it isn't because of Avellone's crazy and silly rants).

Do you have an example of where that behavior actually ruined a crowdfunding game? Usually crowdfunded games fail because the developers get too ambitious or have poor business skills, and thus run out of funds. I agree with your point, actually, but don't necessarily get mad over a crowdfunded project gone south for this sort of reason because I accept that crowdfunding is, by definition, a gamble. As for examples, it's hard to say because what qualifies as "ruined" or a "failure" is inherently subjective, and my taste in games is extremely narrow and so I have not backed that many games. But, I would offer two recent inXile games as my main examples: the constant drumbeat of certain people demanding that T:ToN be TB; and similarly, that BT4 not provide save anywhere anytime (which thankfully inXile overturned after the game's release).

https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/02/03/rumor-is-a-sequel-to-jade-empire-in-the-works

Larian has "Project Gustav" in the works and, during a recent Internet spasm about a possible BG3, confirmed they're NOT working on a D&D game.

My main problem with crowdfunded games is on the backer side rather than the developer side. Though a minority, far too many backers have an entitled mentality and the view that only their preferences for the game must be taken into account and any deviation from 100% of their preferences means the developer is a liar and a cheat and evil ... or something. I'm really tired of these 'the universe revolves around me' backers and would rather have developers be truly independent, from both publishers and crowds. But I understand that that's a very difficult road to follow.

That's not how competition works. EGS wasn't making their platforms better, they are just throwing money away to get market share, and they will get these money back when they get enought market share, from the consumers. It's not competition they want, it's monoploly. Yep, it's the equivalent of dumping in international trade. You dump your (inferior) product on to the market at below market prices to drive your competiton out of business so you can then have a monopoly for yourself. For this to be a viable strategy you have to have very deep pockets or someone else bankrolling/subsidizing you so you can survive your own dumping - which Epic/Tencent has.

That's speculation. Yes Private Division has an exclusivity deal with Epic, but that does not mean Obs wasn't also ok, even enthusiastic, about going with Epic. Obs's tweet about the deal comes across rather glowingly.

A simple online search shows that Private Division has an exclusivity deal with Epic. But at the same time, the tweet from Obs clearly states they view Epic as their "partner" so Obs likely wanted this just as much as Private Division.

Kid? Rigggght. My dream? I'm a backer of both PoE games whereas you're not. Proof? You made the claim. I merely rejected it. Burden of proof's on you ... kid.

Apparently EGS has an exclusivity deal with Private Division for all their games. I was never going to be buying this game anyway on account of it being first person. But yeah, I also will NEVER use EGS, and am strongly put off by any developer or publisher who signs on to an exclusivity arrangement with anyone.

I am also sure that POE 3 will be the next big project from Obsidian No it won't. Sawyer has made it very clear he wants a nice long break from PoE They can make PoE3 without Sawyer. Sawyer wasn't even the director the PoE2 DLCs. They can, but they won't. But there's no harm in holding on to your dream.

I am also sure that POE 3 will be the next big project from Obsidian No it won't. Sawyer has made it very clear he wants a nice long break from PoE, and I don't blame him at all. He's also been pushing for years for Obsidian to allow him to make his historical RPG. So I am sure it will be, in order: New IP RPG (possibly Sawyer's historical game) TOW 2 PoE 3 (maybe)

Personally I think it is far too early for them to have launched a TOW2 project even if only in an exploratory form. So I'm convinced at least one of the two unannounced projects is a new IP game.

Gotta disagree with you there. Because mass effect and dragon age were sucessful , although i think the world setting of dragon age is inferior to pillars. rpgs focused in story are not dead. but as i said before. the poe gameplay will unfortunately have to be modernised even more. lets hope the old workers , writers and directors of obsidian manage to preserve aspects of crpg even with the selling to obsidian. ME and DA are AAA franchises, so apples and oranges.

D:OS2's tremendous sales success (yes, it is indisputably a huge sales success) is very easily explained: 1. Co-op play 2. DM mode These are very much the things a great many of today's young gamers really like to have in their games. The classic RPG in the tradition of the IE games is and has always been very much a niche genre, and the D:OS games do NOT fall into that genre. So if someone is going to make new RPGs in that genre, they're going to have to accept that sales will be in the ballpark of what they have been for the PoE games. I think OE was kinda' ok with that up to now, but from a Microsoft pov that's just not going to cut it. Which is why I have predicted that we have seen the last of PoE1/2-style games from OE. If there is ever another "PoE" game, it will be a third-person ARPG with co-op/multiplayer included and released for consoles right from the beginning.

I can see one of those two unannounced projects being a follow-on to TOW. I wish OE would start giving out some hints on the other of those projects, one that's been going on for some time now.

Yup. It's been sitting in my Steam wishlist for a while now. Looking forward to it.

Good article on what comes next for CDPR and The Witcher franchise: https://www.gamesradar.com/the-witcher-4-release-date/

Yeah this game I may actually play and finish (I have it downloaded), unlike Skyrim itself which I quit in the middle of my first playthrough and never returned to it.

Amen. Especially stay away from people's personal "reviews."I stay off YouTube when a game I deem worthy of purchase comes out, mainly because I want to avoid spoilers. Additionally I've learned to avoid talking about a given game that I'm really looking for to on forums and Facebook because someone usually has something negative to say and it's usually people who have no idea what they're talking about or an extreme bias which makes their opinion irrelevant. Yup. And Steam user reviews are the worst. I've never taken their reviews into account when trying to decide on buying a game. It's so very obvious most of the negative reviews are coming with an agenda.

Well, there was this story providing an explanation of what they mean by "live" elements. As a DA franchise fan I'm not too concerned. Yet. https://dailytech.page/2019/01/10/casey-hudson-confirmed-the-development-of-dragon-age-4-and-tried-to-reassure-fans-2/

Ok, so it seems like in most of your cases the streaming services are in place of cable rather than on top of cable, so that makes sense. And yeah I have Xfinity triple-play with hi-speed internet but without the premium channels and it's 192/mo. Do these streaming services also give you all the network shows? If not, how do you get those?

Amen. Especially stay away from people's personal "reviews."