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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."

So do you guys have subscriptions to every single streaming service out there? Isn't that ridiculously expensive? Very curious about this.

The news from the devs that the game can be completed without fighting anyone intrigues me and makes me wonder if I might enjoy this game after all. My utter dislike for the first-person view is very largely about FPS combat. So if combat can largely be avoided, then maybe first-person won't be so bad.

I'm quite convinced CDPR's next game after Cyberpunk will be a new IP. Sadly though for me, because they already have fantasy covered by the Witcher franchise, it'll likely be in a genre I don't care for.

Hey that's just the way Russians talk. They're trying to translate talking with your hands to text, so lot's of exclamations.

Try Pathfinder Kingmaker. I've heard scary things. I may wait for a year or more to let it settle. The scary claims are overblown. The game is in a perfectly playable state and is truly very good. But it does not hold your hand.