Obsidian General Discussion Thread

[Ninjerk]

First reply from MCA, in 8 mins. Its a celebratory event for him whenever some leaves Obs

Acknowledge this MCA's agenda x 1

 

[santino27]

Is she going to join the strong independent women at BioWare?

I'm wondering if she is heading to Fogbank like Drew K. announced he was today.

 

[Urthor]

Wait which one is she? Was she Josh's sidekick from the Pillars youtube channel or is that someone else?

 

[santino27]

Wait which one is she? Was she Josh's sidekick from the Pillars youtube channel or is that someone else?

She is/was a producer on the title, so yeah she did the Pillars update videos, sometimes with Josh.

 

[FreeKaner]

Smart woman to jump the sinking ship preemptively before the product is even released. Now someone else must do the damage control of the disaster to come.

 

[Mexi]

Who the fuck was she and what the fuck did she do? Anything important? Doesn't seem like it.

 

[Quillon]

Who the fuck was she and what the fuck did she do? Anything important? Doesn't seem like it.

She was the one that was keeping the development team together; ever since the fig campaign Sawyer's focus has been on producing backer update videos and social media. She was the unofficial director of the game for the last year; the mastermind behind all & only the good new things in Deadfire which Josh took credit for all this time, seems she eventually have had enough.

 

[FreeKaner]

The producer leaving just two weeks before game is released does not signal any good things to come. It does seem that PoE2: dumpsterfire will be unsalvageable.

 

[Sizzle]

Doesn't have to mean anything, really. She's a producer, the game is produced.

 

[FreeKaner]

I don't think so, even Sawyer said he will leave the game to someone else after it's released, that he will not be involved in DLCs or further development. He said he MIGHT be involved in some light tuning and that's all. It's over for dumpsterfire.

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Who the fuck was she and what the fuck did she do? Anything important? Doesn't seem like it.

She was the one that was keeping the development team together; ever since the fig campaign Sawyer's focus has been on producing backer update videos and social media. She was the unofficial director of the game for the last year; the mastermind behind all & only the good new things in Deadfire which Josh took credit for all this time, seems she eventually have had enough.

I find this kind of hard to believe. Josh seems like a control freak and he’s just tooling around doing social media outreach? Seriously??? Sounds dubious.

Plus, isn’t she in all the backer videos with him? She’s the one who does all the interviews, seems like more of a PR oriented producer than the unofficial director.

 

[FreeKaner]

Who the fuck was she and what the fuck did she do? Anything important? Doesn't seem like it.

She was the one that was keeping the development team together; ever since the fig campaign Sawyer's focus has been on producing backer update videos and social media. She was the unofficial director of the game for the last year; the mastermind behind all & only the good new things in Deadfire which Josh took credit for all this time, seems she eventually have had enough.

I find this kind of hard to believe. Josh seems like a control freak and he’s just tooling around doing social media outreach? Seriously??? Sounds dubious.

Plus, isn’t she in all the backer videos with him? She’s the one who does all the interviews, seems like more of a PR oriented producer than the unofficial director.

Sawyer realised he created a monstrosity that no person can correct or undo. Dumpsterfire is done for, abandonware at this point.

 

[Sizzle]

I don't think so, even Sawyer said he will leave the game to someone else after it's released, that he will not be involved in DLCs or further development. He said he MIGHT be involved in some light tuning and that's all. It's over for dumpsterfire.

The deal he had with Feargus was that, if PoE2 does well, he'd get to do his history game. We've known this for a long time now.

You're projecting too much into this.

 

[conan_edw]

Being part of most of the backer update videos and then leaving before the release date doesn't really seem normal

 

[FreeKaner]

The deal he had with Feargus was that, if PoE2 does well, he'd get to do his history game. We've known this for a long time now.

You're projecting too much into this.

This detention of a game Feargus forced upon Sawyer is abandoned as soon as it existed post-production.

 

[Quillon]

Who the fuck was she and what the fuck did she do? Anything important? Doesn't seem like it.

She was the one that was keeping the development team together; ever since the fig campaign Sawyer's focus has been on producing backer update videos and social media. She was the unofficial director of the game for the last year; the mastermind behind all & only the good new things in Deadfire which Josh took credit for all this time, seems she eventually have had enough.

I find this kind of hard to believe. Josh seems like a control freak and he’s just tooling around doing social media outreach? Seriously??? Sounds dubious.

Plus, isn’t she in all the backer videos with him? She’s the one who does all the interviews, seems like more of a PR oriented producer than the unofficial director.

This is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Look at Sawyer's twitter acc: https://twitter.com/jesawyer It was at 10k tweets at this time last year, now its close to 29k.

 

[Sizzle]

The deal he had with Feargus was that, if PoE2 does well, he'd get to do his history game. We've known this for a long time now.

You're projecting too much into this.

This detention of a game Feargus forced upon Sawyer is abandoned as soon as it existed post-production.

Ah, you're trolling.

Carry on

 

[FreeKaner]

This is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Look at Sawyer's twitter acc: https://twitter.com/jesawyer It was at 10k tweets at this time last year, now its close to 29k.

He posted more about Dune than dumpsterfire in last 24 hours. He also said there would be another beta updated but there is none.

 

[Quillon]

He also said there would be another beta updated but there is none.

He's a compulsive liar and a very frivolous director; changing fundamental stuff(attributes) on a whim only to appeal some grognards, only to have it backfire by the community right away and waiting for release eve only to roll back the changes.

 

[Ulfhednar]

Conspiracy theory: she's pregnant.

Explains the muppets, late beta release and early departure.

 

[Cross]

I don't think so, even Sawyer said he will leave the game to someone else after it's released, that he will not be involved in DLCs or further development. He said he MIGHT be involved in some light tuning and that's all. It's over for dumpsterfire.

The deal he had with Feargus was that, if PoE2 does well, he'd get to do his history game. We've known this for a long time now.

You're projecting too much into this.

Didn't Sawyer say his dream project was a historical low fantasy RPG set in medieval times?

I'm very skeptical that after releasing three consecutive isometric RPG's that all have a pre-industrial fantasy setting, Feargus is going to greenlight another one, with the difference being that it would have less audience appeal and sell less than the others. Even Bethesda and Bioware understand the value of branching out into different settings (that is, different settings that are marketable).

 

[Zed]

The producer leaving just two weeks before game is released does not signal any good things to come. It does seem that PoE2: dumpsterfire will be unsalvageable.

it's just a career move. do you think producers care about games

 

[Quillon]

I don't think so, even Sawyer said he will leave the game to someone else after it's released, that he will not be involved in DLCs or further development. He said he MIGHT be involved in some light tuning and that's all. It's over for dumpsterfire.

The deal he had with Feargus was that, if PoE2 does well, he'd get to do his history game. We've known this for a long time now.

You're projecting too much into this.

Didn't Sawyer say his dream project was a historical low fantasy RPG set in medieval times?

I'm very skeptical that after releasing three consecutive isometric RPG's that all have a pre-industrial fantasy setting, Feargus is going to greenlight another one, with the difference being that it would have less audience appeal and sell less than the others. Even Bethesda and Bioware understand the value of branching out into different settings (that is, different settings that are marketable).

Sawyer says it'd be different:

Spoiler

 

[Morgoth]

The Man in the High Castle RPG?



Fuck that boring historical medieval shit.

 

[Infinitron]

FreeKaner stop being a hysterical little bitch

Conspiracy theory: she's pregnant.

Very possible. Some of you may remember that Katrina Garsten was Katrina Schnell not so long ago.