Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity [BETA RELEASED, GO TO THE NEW THREAD]

[covr]

No update this week?

 

[Infinitron]

No update this week?

There was one last week. As for next week:

Update Schedule
Hey, everyone. Brandon here. With production moving into the finalization phase for Eternity, the team and I are hunkering down to finish up the game over the next few months. Going forward, we will be spacing out our backer updates a bit more from now until the project ships. They’ll come a bit less predictably, but you can still expect updates as we have big announcements or special news for you. This will really help us focus as much of our efforts into putting out the best game we possibly can for everyone.

 

[covr]

Thx, it seems that they are getting lazy.

 

[polo]

I expect the demo to not be full of bugs. Not much more than that.

 

[nikolokolus]

You expect a bug free demo? .... From Obsidian? ... Orite.

 

[Abelian]

"not full of bugs" != "bug free", just as saying that a glass is not full does not imply it's empty.

 

[Roguey]

Thx, it seems that they are getting lazy.

"We're too busy crunching to give you an update every other week" isn't laziness.

 

[LizardWizard]

Taking two years to playthrough Arcanum is pretty lazy.

 

[Hormalakh]

Thx, it seems that they are getting lazy.

"We're too busy crunching to give you an update every other week" isn't laziness.

you're right. it's ineptitude.

 

[Volourn]

"We're too busy crunching to give you an update every other week" isn't laziness."
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Yeah, it is. Hey, guyz, we'll update you every 2 weeks except when we don't... because of 'lame excuse'.

 

[Grotesque]

I wonder what Hiver has to say about this!!

 

[Roguey]

"Yeah, it is. Hey, guyz, we'll update you every 2 weeks except when we don't... because of 'lame excuse'."

Obsidian has given us 82 updates over a period of nearly two years. Wasteland 2, which has been out longer, has given us a much more sporadic 52. Most Kickstarter game projects haven't given us the amount of info that Obsidian has. With the beta less than one month away, updates that aren't important really aren't even necessary at this point. I mean what more do you want to know that won't be revealed in August?

you're right. it's ineptitude.

This is needlessly edgy. The cumulative hours spent on making updates now would be better spent working on the damn thing itself.

 

[covr]

I want to see animations, GUI and creation of characters. With only month until beta, it shouldn't be so hard.
And most of those 82 updates was about some minor shit I don't care about.

 

[Sensuki]

Infinitron

I found it man

https://twitter.com/JohnnyAtom/status/489821827452375040

Good day at @uk_ie for the ‘Pillars of Eternity’ press day with @Obsidian - although far too many Krispy Kremes doughnuts eaten!

https://twitter.com/CharleyGC/status/489709211933499392

Hanging out @uk_ie today with @Obsidian's @badler07 & @jesawyer showing #PillarsofEternity to media.

It seems they went to UK Interactive Entertainment which is the trade body for the UK video game industry. The guy who posted the tweet is a PR guy with "17 years of experience including EA, Atari and helping launch the SEGA Dreamcast". He and the chick are both from the same PR firm - Johnny Atom.

Looks like they've gone over there to sort out the PE marketing drive for the upcoming beta and probably the events as well.

Edit: Not sure how I missed these yesterday either

https://twitter.com/gcacho/status/488731200446398464

So I'm seeing three games today in the city: Uemeu, Pillars of Eternity and Shadowgate. It's actually a busy summer day.

https://twitter.com/dasupa1/status/489441899212591105

✓ Pillars of Eternity press tour on schedule

 

[Roguey]

I want to see animations, GUI and creation of characters. With only month until beta, it shouldn't be so hard.

You'll see these August 14-15. Taking the time to make videos of these now would take away time that could be spent delivering that beta on time in proper condition.

"Waaaaaaah I can't wait a month" is extremely entitled.

 

[Sensuki]

They'll make a video for the beta, no doubt.

I have an Q&A interview hopefully coming next week to tide people here over anyway.

The big question here is, do you guys think that they are in fact going to offer Steam Early Access

 

[Rake]

They'll make a video for the beta, no doubt.

I have an Q&A interview hopefully coming next week to tide people here over anyway.

The big question here is, do you guys think that they are in fact going to offer Steam Early Access

Propably not. The PoE beta will be way more confined and smaller than W2 and D:OS, practicaly a demo. Charging money for that would lead to needless backlash.

 

[Sensuki]

They also don't need the money for it to finish the game, unlike the other two.

I wonder whether the PR people will agree with that common sense though.

 

[Roguey]

Yeah, after Dead State and Jynxx, absolutely no way is EA happening.

I'm hoping for videos/streams from Gen Con and Gamescom. I doubt they'll release a video before then even though there are a few backers who will be livid about it.

 

[Sensuki]

If the video is literally is a gameplay demonstration at gamescom or something, that would be a smart way to cut out the production costs of a gameplay video at this time.

 

[Spockrock]

Taking two years to playthrough Arcanum is pretty lazy.

in case of Arcanum it isn't. if you were forced to eat a bucket of shit but had no definitive time frame to do that I trust you would eat it at a rate of one tea spoon a year

 

[Ninjerk]

Taking two years to playthrough Arcanum is pretty lazy.

in case of Arcanum it isn't. if you were forced to eat a bucket of shit but had no definitive time frame to do that I trust you would eat it at a rate of one tea spoon a year

Almost the same thing, really.

 

[Perkel]

Well he said to me on tweeter that he plans to go back to it when he will have free time.

I imagine being designer whore stretch-goal can be problematic

 

[Grotesque]

If project Eternity proves to be a failure, I expect photos in the same manner from Sensuki considering the time and effort invested in stalking those poor Obsidian guys.

 

[imweasel]

How could the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate Josh Sawyer's dream RPG possibly fail?