@PeachMcD said in Ok, Bought the game after a 2 min video on youtube; was it the right choice?:

to be brutally honest, I bought in one night after more bourbon than usual.

I'm totally poor, and/but I wanted the devs to know there were players out here so sick to death of the 'freemium' model that we'd spend $75 for even a CHANCE to play a game like Fractured.

Not, I'll freely admit, my wisest financial decision.

There's a lot worse things you could have bought while drunk. This is a risk but at least you didn't pee it away on a gambling site.

An early purchase is very risky but if no one bought in at this early stage then it wouldn't exist. Unless they funded it themselves through loans etc but that's not always a good thing to do even if they could find a willing lender. That or join with a publisher that potentially ruins the game.

Thank you for taking the risk and supporting the game at a high level.

@Tuoni said in New World by Amazon - Anyone interested?:

BOOM!

"As a result, we will be changing our launch date - and correspondingly, our final beta test - to spring 2021."

Release update

Thank you for the information.

And now a little vent: I finally pre-purchased it a few days ago with the Steam £5 off a £30+ game expecting it to be the greatest discount I could get before the release as It's only 11 days until the beta should have started with release a month after that. I was looking forward to it even buying the steelbook to have something physical. They already delayed it once. The first delay was understandable and not too long. But now a whole years delay?!

Maybe it's for the best in the long run but If it wasn't Amazon I'd be seeing it as one of those games that never comes out of early access and closes down quickly.

I'd be very suspicious if everything went well in an Alpha test.

I'd expect a Beta to run reasonably well but Alphas are often POC in my experience. That's Proof Of Concept and Piece Of Crap.

To me, it's a privilege to see the game at this stage and we can look back and remember how it's improved.

I'd rather not have any non-cosmetic paid services here because it isn't a free to play game. Exclusive cosmetic stuff is bad enough (unless Dynamight gold can be earned in game?) but understandable to keep the game getting support.

It it needs an ingame store then a little discreet icon is fine. I really don't want to be advertised at constantly like some games do. I loved the beta of a game called City of Steam but it launched with an asian publisher and constantly demanded feeding, like a greedy pet. They apparently separated from the publisher (I'd left before that) to try to survive but It was ruined beyond redemption by then and it closed down. They might have made money in the short term with their greed but wouldn't they have been better off thinking longer term? It's that situation that puts me off paying for an early version of a game.

From what I can tell, Dynamight aren't greedy money-grabbing scum. The Foundation is good evidence of that. I hope they can stay classy and implement any pay for convenience features in a non-obtrusive way.

@Tuoni said in New World by Amazon - Anyone interested?:

Disapointed news but in other hand understandable, it is not reasonabale to release unfinished product. However, a year delay tells how much there is still to be done, balance and fix.

I'd expect there to be only small issues to fix when they're this close to release. Then they suddenly realised it needs another year, a day after the Steam offer expires.

@Jetah said in February 2020 Open Playtest:

@Pwnstar said in February 2020 Open Playtest:

@Jetah why did Prometheus say "today" then?

he's in Italy and i'm in the US to his today is my tomorrow. ¯\(ツ)/¯

"Tomorrow tomorrow
I love ya
Tomorrow
You're always a day a way."

It makes sense to use graphical placeholders at this stage while they work on the mechanics. Standard practise.

Now If they became like Shroud of the Avatar and sold expensive houses that are from the Unity Asset Store then that'd feel shady to me.

Maybe they should just cut the year short. 2020 has been bad enough already.

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