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Anonymous No.717487952 >>717488049 >>717488119 >>717488618 >>717490932 >>717492801 >>717493012 >>717493302 >>717493427 >>717494071 >>717494132 >>717495414 >>717499563 >>717500478 >>717507340 >>717514537
Meow that the dust has settled and the game is out, was Stormgate a success?
Anonymous No.717488049
>>717487952 (OP)
Ouch
Anonymous No.717488119
>>717487952 (OP)
Fartshite graphics do not belong in a genre for adults.
Anonymous No.717488618
>>717487952 (OP)
Nah. Too many huge critical errors
>Co-op PvE has been one of the most popular gamemodes in SC2 and a lot of people are looking for a similar experience: "lets focus on PvP and do 3 player co-op which is just infinitely worse as a baseline! Then lets do really shitty monetisation on this gamemode that is extremely blatantly unfinished so anyone who might consider our game for co-op will want nothing more to do with it!"
>There is a solid amount of really good campaigns you can play in SC2 ranging from entirely custom campaigns to main campaign remakes and overhauls that anyone can play for free: "Lets focus on our own half-assed shit story campaign that is worse by all accounts and hope our game sells!"
You can tell they tried to draw in the zoomer crowd with their artstyle and le quirky dialogue but the audience just isn't there. Zoomers play phone games and slop like Roblox, and you want to try and sell them on tryhard pvp with just the lamest fucking edgelord demons vs humans theming?
>Announce cool features like terrain destruction: "whoah back up that sounds like it might be interesting, lets cut that before the first alpha and go back to basics!"
And their release announcement was just utterly pathetic: "we want to keep making this game for a long time" Great, your audience just wants a properly finished fucking game, not some perpetual "project" and then they go "we need your help!" Yeah, great, so you're already telling people your product is likely to fail and with it all that support and development you claim it still needs. Fantastic, really selling it to me there.
Anonymous No.717490932
>>717487952 (OP)
Meow :3c
Anonymous No.717492801
>>717487952 (OP)
Anonymous No.717493012 >>717495414
>>717487952 (OP)
what do you think? with 300 players they'll be able to offset their 15 million burn rate per year? What about the 20 million in loans?
Anonymous No.717493302
>>717487952 (OP)
game sucks on every level
Anonymous No.717493427
>>717487952 (OP)
hahaha no, but it's way too overhated
only hope for this game is the custom map editor (and i mean the real one with triggers and scripting)
Anonymous No.717493461 >>717495160 >>717495829 >>717497735 >>717499329 >>717503725
Anonymous No.717494071 >>717494137
>>717487952 (OP)
>free to play
so... whats worth it in the basic edition then
Anonymous No.717494132
>>717487952 (OP)
Is this a meme that came back right meow?
Anonymous No.717494137
>>717494071
nothing, don't buy it. They will shut down the studio and yoink your purchase as soon as they can
Anonymous No.717495160
>>717493461
Looks like someone prompted an AI with "In the style of Pili Totem."
Anonymous No.717495414 >>717495590
>>717493012
>>717487952 (OP)
How the fuck did this game cost 35 million

The numbers arent adding up on this one at all, this smells like money laundering
Anonymous No.717495590
>>717495414
the game cost maybe a million
the rest went to the orange country office landlord and indoor climbing wall maintenance, s.oi latte coffee machines, diversity training, etc
Anonymous No.717495670
>success
Anon...
Anonymous No.717495829 >>717497727
>>717493461
Arabs are so fucking ugly.
Anonymous No.717497727 >>717499048
>>717495829
Only non-arabs say that.
Anonymous No.717497735
>>717493461
Really cool puppet animation.
Anonymous No.717499048
>>717497727
it's still true tho
Anonymous No.717499103 >>717499175 >>717499364
Downloaded it yesterday. How's this a full game? It feels like an early beta or some shit. Everything is incomplete and unpolished as fuck.
Anonymous No.717499175 >>717499308
>>717499103
They had to release the game because they have no money left
Anonymous No.717499308 >>717499463 >>717499495
>>717499175
How? Didn't they have a successful kickstarter?
Anonymous No.717499329
>>717493461
And I thought Darktide characters looked like wax dolls.
Anonymous No.717499364
>>717499103
>How's this a full game?
it's not. But they say it's a full game so they can shut it down without breaking contracts
Anonymous No.717499463
>>717499308
Because they are fucking retarded. They got like 50m in funding and instead of using it to make the game they blew it all on retarded shit, like hosting a global championship at the EWC while the game was effectively in pre-alpha.
Anonymous No.717499495 >>717499596 >>717509916
>>717499308
Their office was (they moved recently) in Irvine. Generally they were very liberal with their spendings. Their financials are public, at one point they had an operating cost of 1 million per month.
Most of their money came from investors, they had a budget of 40 million. Only 2-3m came from Kickstarter.
Anonymous No.717499563
>>717487952 (OP)
DEIgate
Anonymous No.717499596
>>717499495
The Tims ran the company like it was still Blizzard. They acted like they had infinite money and like the fanboys would blindly ignore all the flaws.
Anonymous No.717500009 >>717509975
They lied about the roles they held at Blizzard.

They lied about the kickstarter funding and retroactively claimed "funded until release" meant funded until early access.

They lied about the contents of the kickstarter packs and edited them later on.

They advertised a shady VPN service on their steam page (against steam TOS) and when called out claimed this service was only for chinese players, but then it turned out that the advertised a different VPN to chinese players and then they ninja edited their posts and pretended it never happened.

They lied about their finances several times and tried to gaslight people into thinking everything is good.

They lied about receiving more funding that would secure a stable 1.0 release.
Anonymous No.717500478
>>717487952 (OP)
more like scamgate
Anonymous No.717500681 >>717500952 >>717512156
>SC3 never ever
>every new RTS is dogshit
Anonymous No.717500952
>>717500681
Good. This genre was never good to begin with.
Anonymous No.717501387
Anonymous No.717501862
Reminder, they valued their company at $150m, based on the assumption that they would be able to capture 50% of SC2's launch audience. SC2 sold about 6m copies in the first month.

Given that they have 500 people online now, 3 days after launch it's safe to say that they missed that target by at least 3 orders of magnitude.
Anonymous No.717503725
>>717493461
This looks so fucking weird.
Anonymous No.717503865
they scammed the investors hard.
the game was never going to be good anyways so we didn't really lose anything of value.
Anonymous No.717507340
>>717487952 (OP)
Bump
Anonymous No.717509916
>>717499495
>at one point they had an operating cost of 1 million per month.
crazy shit
Anonymous No.717509975
>>717500009
>They lied about the roles they held at Blizzard.
QRD?
Anonymous No.717512156 >>717513358
>>717500681
>every new RTS is dogshit
Works on my machine
Anonymous No.717513358
>>717512156
Making a completely new RTS from the ground up with a new IP that's better than SC2 is fucking crazy. I'd say you need good people, good direction and a lot of money to get this started. And there is not a lot of money in it.
RTS is pretty much dead from this stand point.
Anonymous No.717513415
It sucks ass I went back to brood war and warcraft 3
Anonymous No.717513574 >>717513805
Haven't tried it out yet, but is this a case where the audience simply refuses to try a new game out, or are there legitimate concerns about the gameplay?
Anonymous No.717513805
>>717513574
It looks like ass. I didn't play it, but why would I switch from SC2 when this game looks worse and has less players?
Anonymous No.717514537
>>717487952 (OP)
from the begining people told them that the artstyle is shit and units movement is clunky and they nod their heads saying this is just a beta and everything will be ok.
its not ok. its shit tier story in a shit tier game and its a shit tier rts.
they surround themself with clapping influencers that encouraged them to double down on their direction and now moneys are gone and sales are miniscule.
it will take another 20 years for us to get another rts thanks to them.