Baldur's Gate #BaldurGate: Siege of Dragonspear

[Infinitron]

Siege of Dragonspear was on the first page for a short while. It's just that nobody posted about it in this thread.

 

[Murk]

I imagine Beamdog is doing fine from the EE sales alone and that the cost for developing SoD was itself very low.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Yeah that $2 they are getting for each copy they sold over the weekend?

 

[Immortal]

Gaider doesn't work for free.. I have to imagine they have much higher overheads than SCL. Who knows though.

This is all finger in the air to predict the weather guesstimating.
I have trouble believing that SoD outsold SCL.

 

[Murk]

I meant over the last year or two, it seemed to have sold well if I'm not mistaken (EE editions of IE gamse) -- but I didn't keep up with them until the expansion was nearing release so I'm not sure. If they do tank then all the better. Less hackfrauds to wag my finger at.

 

[Bastion]

Notes? Free? What? Dude, all you have to do is say something like "the thai" or "native americans" or whatever to clarify.

Maybe you've already guessed but I am not a native speaker and because of that I am not going to translate these nations which names I don't remember right now into English, so get over yourself. Somewhere in Africa, South America, Asia and probably West Europe. Happy? Cuz I'm not.

You writing a thesis on the historic traditions of tranny sex or something?

Have you read my whole reply? I guess no. Should I feel ashamed because someone dared to teach me something what isn't in coursebooks? He made a mistake, I corrected him, is it so difficult to get?

 

[Infinitron]

I imagine Beamdog is doing fine from the EE sales alone and that the cost for developing SoD was itself very low.

I don't think it was "very" low. They spent a lot of time on this - it's been in on-and-off development since Beamdog was founded, with some of the maps dating back to 2012. Phil Daigle said in a stream that the team size went between 10 and 30 people during development. They got all those voice actors from the original games, made a physical collector's edition, rewrote the engine to add fancy new features...

 

[Anac'raxus]

Transgenderism is boring. I'm moving on to transpecies now, especially the mythological variety:

Former banker gets her ears and nose removed so she can look like a dragon

...

"I am the Dragon Lady, A pre-op M2F (male to female) transgender in the process of morphing into a human dragon, becoming a reptoid as I shed my human skin and my physical appearance and my life as a whole leaving my humanness behind."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...she-can-look-lik/?cid=sf23779401&sf23779401=1

She calls herself Tiamat for short - the name of a video game dragon.

LOL, the Telegraph writer doesn't know enough ancient mythology.

 

[Excidium II]

I imagine Beamdog is doing fine from the EE sales alone and that the cost for developing SoD was itself very low.

I don't think it was "very" low. They spent a lot of time on this - it's been in on-and-off development since Beamdog was founded, with some of the maps dating back to 2012. Phil Daigle said in a stream that the team size went between 10 and 30 people during development. They got all those voice actors from the original games, made a physical collector's edition, rewrote the engine to add fancy new features...

Hopefully it cost them a whole damn lot.

 

[Immortal]

I imagine Beamdog is doing fine from the EE sales alone and that the cost for developing SoD was itself very low.

I don't think it was "very" low. They spent a lot of time on this - it's been in on-and-off development since Beamdog was founded, with some of the maps dating back to 2012. Phil Daigle said in a stream that the team size went between 10 and 30 people during development. They got all those voice actors from the original games, made a physical collector's edition, rewrote the engine to add fancy new features...

Hopefully it cost them a whole damn lot.

The cost of Self-respect is a high one.

 

[oldmanpaco]

I imagine Beamdog is doing fine from the EE sales alone and that the cost for developing SoD was itself very low.

I don't think it was "very" low. They spent a lot of time on this - it's been in on-and-off development since Beamdog was founded, with some of the maps dating back to 2012. Phil Daigle said in a stream that the team size went between 10 and 30 people during development. They got all those voice actors from the original games, made a physical collector's edition, rewrote the engine to add fancy new features...

Hopefully it cost them a whole damn lot.

The cost of Self-respect is a high one.

Wonder how much their writers cost.

 

[PhantasmaNL]

I imagine Beamdog is doing fine from the EE sales alone and that the cost for developing SoD was itself very low.

I don't think it was "very" low. They spent a lot of time on this - it's been in on-and-off development since Beamdog was founded, with some of the maps dating back to 2012. Phil Daigle said in a stream that the team size went between 10 and 30 people during development. They got all those voice actors from the original games, made a physical collector's edition, rewrote the engine to add fancy new features...

Wow that is a pretty big team...you'll need substantial sales for that. And with all this going on noone steps on the breaks when Amber filed her first draft of personality upgrades and sexism fixes? Mind boggled.

 

[Excidium II]

I imagine Beamdog is doing fine from the EE sales alone and that the cost for developing SoD was itself very low.

I don't think it was "very" low. They spent a lot of time on this - it's been in on-and-off development since Beamdog was founded, with some of the maps dating back to 2012. Phil Daigle said in a stream that the team size went between 10 and 30 people during development. They got all those voice actors from the original games, made a physical collector's edition, rewrote the engine to add fancy new features...

Hopefully it cost them a whole damn lot.

The cost of Self-respect is a high one.

Wonder how much their writers cost.

Yeah how much do writers earn gaym industry?

 

[Atlantico]

Not at all, they have always had an impact in some cultures and religions. They were sometimes consider as a soul within a wrong body (touched by gods) and as a result transexuals had a very important religious jobs, eg. having sex with someone like that was considered as a fertility charm, worth to add, having sex with a pederast was treated like a dishonour but with this special kind of trans it wasn't a dishonour.

Not all cultures are equal, the ones you describe are evidently

Not that the Coca-Cola-culture is anything to write home about.

Also, nobody gives a shit about the customs of degenerate pagans, whether real or imagined by homofag historians. There's a reason Christianity overtook paganism everywhere it went (and no, it had nothing to do with any societal imposition). This type of shit pops up every time a civilization is about to collapse, our own being no different.

Indeed.

Just to remind you, we were also pagans for Romans, that's why we were burnt alive in 64. And I am not going to enlighten you about these 'pagans' because you are retarded. The latin civilazation is the greatest thing we could ever imagined but calling other nations degenerated? Read something and stop spreading stupidity, because I am sure you have never read about their mythology, don't you?

You are projecting so hard. For an enlightened man, you make many logical fallacies.

 

[Immortal]

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/50396/user-ratings-on-metacritic-spoilers/p31

Do you or do you not stand by your comments, that those criticizing the game are 'not true baldurs gate fans' or something along those lines.
Also does the deleting of those tweets account as some sort of apology?

I was tweeting in the heat of the moment. However, I wasn't trying to say that everyone criticizing the game was not a true fan of the game; my comment in that tweet (which, again, has since been deleted, not sure why we're still talking about it) was specifically about the people in the links I included with that tweet: one was an 8chan thread that was making targeted, nasty attacks against Beamdog and its employees.

The other link was a blog post that I happened to disagree with, which in hindsight wasn't really the point of that tweet. But as I said, taking it to social media was a mistake, as was claiming that people attacking me or the people I work with are not real Baldur's Gate fans. I'm sure they are real fans of the game. That doesn't mean I'm okay with what they're posting about me.

EDIT: Blockquotes seem to be broken...again...

Dee does some more back pedalling on his Jizzabell cry for help.

Also LOL @ "Guys I deleted the tweet.. so why are people still talking about it.. like jeeeeeeze"

EDIT:
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/50396/user-ratings-on-metacritic-spoilers/p30

Just a note, since it seems to have been ignored: the tweets you're referencing were deleted, and no response was given from either Anita or the (incorrectly mentioned) Jezebel. It was an honest mistake, which has since been remedied.

> Anita and Jezebell didn't reply.. so like.. you can't get mad at me.

Lmfao is this seriously their PR?

 

[Excidium II]

Just to remind you, we were also pagans for Romans, that's why we were burnt alive in 64. And I am not going to enlighten you about these 'pagans' because you are retarded. The latin civilazation is the greatest thing we could ever imagined but calling other nations degenerated? Read something and stop spreading stupidity, because I am sure you have never read about their mythology, don't you?

You are projecting so hard. For an enlightened man, you make many logical fallacies.

That post was funny considering he's responding to Lycra Suit. Intense schooling incoming

 

[FeelTheRads]

For some people it's not possible to make fun of SJWs without bringing in the god shit.

 

[Mustawd]

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/50396/user-ratings-on-metacritic-spoilers/p31

Do you or do you not stand by your comments, that those criticizing the game are 'not true baldurs gate fans' or something along those lines.
Also does the deleting of those tweets account as some sort of apology?

I was tweeting in the heat of the moment. However, I wasn't trying to say that everyone criticizing the game was not a true fan of the game; my comment in that tweet (which, again, has since been deleted, not sure why we're still talking about it) was specifically about the people in the links I included with that tweet: one was an 8chan thread that was making targeted, nasty attacks against Beamdog and its employees.

The other link was a blog post that I happened to disagree with, which in hindsight wasn't really the point of that tweet. But as I said, taking it to social media was a mistake, as was claiming that people attacking me or the people I work with are not real Baldur's Gate fans. I'm sure they are real fans of the game. That doesn't mean I'm okay with what they're posting about me.

EDIT: Blockquotes seem to be broken...again...

Dee does some more back pedalling on his Jizzabell cry for help.

Also LOL @ "Guys I deleted the tweet.. so why are people still talking about it.. like jeeeeeeze"

EDIT:
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/50396/user-ratings-on-metacritic-spoilers/p30

Just a note, since it seems to have been ignored: the tweets you're referencing were deleted, and no response was given from either Anita or the (incorrectly mentioned) Jezebel. It was an honest mistake, which has since been remedied.

> Anita and Jezebell didn't reply.. so like.. you can't get mad at me.

Lmfao is this seriously their PR?

Well, at least he admitted it. Which is more than most PR people would do.

 

[Azarkon]

Like I said before, I'd say they themselves brought this on themselves, anyone with half a brain would know that any hot-button political issue will flare like a wildfire, and will bring in crazies from the both ends. I think the shitstorm would've happened even without any of the "social justice"-angle, given, if I've understood correctly, that the game is fucking shit and fucking buggy.

The devs would've done exactly the same, closed down the threads complaining about the game and the bugs, they just seem utterly incapable of handling the business and PR.

It would not have resulted in this.

In fact, it wouldn't even have resulted in this, had SJW not become a huge issue in the gaming community in the last few years.

Wrong game, wrong time, is how I'd put it. Had this game been released ten years ago, people would've just seen the lines as a joke. But, as I said before, there is a war going on at the moment with SJWs/feminists and the gaming community, and Beamdog decided to join it.

 

[Bastion]

You are projecting so hard. For an enlightened man, you make many logical fallacies.

I'm listening.

Not all cultures are equal, the ones you describe are evidently

Not that the Coca-Cola-culture is anything to write home about.

Okey, I'm not listening anymore. Comparing the nowadays attitudes to... May God be with you, I'm done.

 

[Excidium II]

Well, at least he admitted it. Which is more than most PR people would do.

Not that it makes any difference at this point.

 

[Jarpie]

Like I said before, I'd say they themselves brought this on themselves, anyone with half a brain would know that any hot-button political issue will flare like a wildfire, and will bring in crazies from the both ends. I think the shitstorm would've happened even without any of the "social justice"-angle, given, if I've understood correctly, that the game is fucking shit and fucking buggy.

The devs would've done exactly the same, closed down the threads complaining about the game and the bugs, they just seem utterly incapable of handling the business and PR.

It would not have resulted in this.

In fact, it wouldn't even have resulted in this, had SJW not become a huge issue in the gaming community in the last few years.

Wrong game, wrong time, is how I'd put it. Had this game been released ten years ago, people would've just seen the lines as a joke. But, as I said before, there is a war going on at the moment with SJWs/feminists and the gaming community, and Beamdog decided to join it.

I do think that they would've gone on the same defensive strategy by banning people in steam forum, closing threads, begging for positive reviews etc. then I think it would've gotten big, but granted, maybe not as huge as now.

 

[Atlantico]

I'm listening.

You're quoting the post backwards, which makes your next comment:

Okey, I'm not listening anymore. Comparing the nowadays attitudes to... May God be with you, I'm done.

Also, brush up on reading comprehension. Get lost peon.

 

[Immortal]

Well, at least he admitted it. Which is more than most PR people would do.

Do you think he would admit it if his twitter had been properly private up front? Or if nobody got the archived copy of his tweet before he deleted it (as he's complained about in the past?)

This is literally opening the pantry to see the fat kid eating your box of cereal and then sputtering "Okay.. I was hungry... but I'll put it back.. don't be mad"

 

[imweasel]

There is a lot of Bard gear in this new expansion, including the hat that the Amber developer/writer person wears in the photos.

Yep. I bet the self-appointed "BeamBard" AKA Amber Scott also plays the flute, seeing that I already found two of them.

And of course I have no bard and Garrick didn't want to join my party, because he was too busy hitting on some bar chick. (Yes, the bar chick is a man-hater. It is an SJW approved Amber Scott game after all.)

IF Beamdog had better PR, less corrosive employees like TooBad Amber who doesnt give a shit about the product or the customer

Fun fact: Amber Scott is Beamdog's "Publishing and Marketing Coordinator".

Hilarious, I know.