Wasteland Wasteland 2 Pre-Release Discussion Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

...before it's released even.

 

I honestly dont see why people have a problem with them working / having a contract with a publisher for the retail discs aslong as they still have the rights, no drm, the majority of the money (yes the publisher will get a part of the money from all the retail discs) but at the same time its probably cheaper for them to do it this way considering the fact that they would have to print / package and so on themselves.

Anyway cant wait to play the game!

 

Gosh! The developers are taking this harsh! Even the official site is down. How much money did this fellow give them? A million dollars or something?

 

Is that a promise?

 

They negotiate a physical distribution contract with a publisher and all hell breaks loose? Retards will be retards.

 

That's it - they use Deep Silver as a distributor not as a publisher.

Maybe it's the same thing for some hardcore fans as if your favourite cult punk band goes from an independent label to a major label.

 

But in this case the independent label used to be a major label..so jokes on them for not seeing it coming.

 

Yeah - true punks record music cassettes only - hand made.

 

Even Harebrained offered refunds. Tsk tsk, Fargo.

 

Dunno what he is all pissed off about, hopefully not about the distri deal with Deep Silver. It's all cool IMO.



But if that is how he feels, it might be best to just give him his $15 bucks back.



Unless he pledged 10K, then fuck him. Keep it. We need that cash. lol

 

But those people are wrong too. Wrong for breathing, wrong for living.

 

"Harder core than thou for a year or two, then it's time to get a real job."

 

So how is this distribution deal different from signing a deal with a Steam or GOG for digital distribution? The distributor gets a share of profit but that's that.

 

What's the rage about this deal? God, people are retarded (yeah, I know, news at 11). If inXile wants to distribute the game phisically, they almost HAVE to contract somebody to do so. Distributing physical goods to retailers is not that easy, and developer studios don't really have the connections, resources and the knowledge to do that. It is not about making a few hundred boxes to the kickstarter backers, it's about making tens of thousands of discs, copies, manuals, making contracts with the retailers, transporting to different parts of the world. Do we really want a few hunder thousand dollar from the Kickstarter budget to be used on this? I don't think so.

And I trust Brian when he said that it is a distribution deal only, and they will retain the creative control. It would be a PR disaster to do otherwise.

 

I have the impression that Deep Silver is pretty much laissez-faire as a publisher (I'm not even sure if they even publish) and they seem to be good distributers. Their box copies look appealing with cardboard and quality manuals. At least the X series is like this. It never looked like that they are ripping off Egosoft or something.

There seem to be a lot of people who aren't able to read or develop some reading comprehension. Or they would be able to read and understand but instead decide that rage is more entertaining for them. Drama baby, Drama!

 

As a distrubutor. As a publisher, they're responsible for the Biowarification of Risen 2.

 

Publisher: Deep Silver

The alternative is that Piranha Bytes decided "All right we're going to say to hell with our current audience and make a more accessible game for consoles with day one disc-locked DLC because that's what we want to make."

 

I haven't played Risen 2, but having played Risen, the alternative wouldn't completely surprise me.

 

That was a reasonable risk because they were already blockbuster-making PC developers.

 

Good point, haven't thought about Risen 2. But my impression is that Risen 2 wasn't really viable in another way. I have not enough confidence in PB anymore that they could have made a better game. E.g. turning Risen in a pirate setting was good publisher idea imho (an original brand would have been even better), the execution was lacking by not going far enough (Ship combat? Plundering? Trading?).

 

The core gameplay was awful, adding more things to do wouldn't have made it better.

They could have made another PC-centric open-area exploration game with better pacing and tweaked-instead-of-completely-redone-for-the-worse combat.