I don't give a damn why they are trying to rip me off, I just do not like beeing ripped off at all. So they needed the money and as a consequence they doubled the price in one particular language? I'm not the Salvation Army.

It's not the first game they made, most likely they are able to read, so I cannot believe that they realised "too late" that the contract they signed would have these consequences.

I would not mind paying a few euros more for helping a local developer, but paying 200% more is simply way too much.

And yes, I could get it in english, but now I'm pissed so I'll take my right as a consumer and won't toss any money in that direction ;)

EDIT, Oh, and the 40$ are the lowered preorder-price I just recognised... According to amazon "this cheap (!!) prize is only available until release". Thats the verbal form of a raised middle finger in my eyes.

Question:

I discovered your games through originally just taking a chance on what looked like a promising game, and since then I have been a huge fan of your games. With titles such as Deponia, The Whispered World, and the rest (including the impression I get from this title), is it difficult finding just the right music for each game, and do you ever have pieces or songs that you have a difficult time cutting out? Thank you!

@ SergeiKlimov:

So there also won't be a german DRM-free version availlable? Or will the german retail version be DRM-free? I don't pay twice the prince for getting annoyed with DRM, in fact only get disadvantages. I really like the other Daedelic games but that would be too much. I'm not the welfare.

If you mean Inherit the Earth, then I do, and I asked the right holders to release it on GOG, also when they were doing Kickstarter for a sequel I asked them at the beginning of it to release first part on GOG and then many people asked them to do so, so it's possible they will.

And I hope G-Doc's answer is a kind of confirmation it's coming to GOG, it will be instabuy for me.

Here are my questions for the developers:

What is your target age group for this game? Is it more for adults or younger folks, or will all ages enjoy it?

How difficult is it compared to, say, the Deponia games?

How long did it take to create this game?

Question :
I loved Disponia, and its sequel along with Chains of Satinav. So I want to know if you guys ever feel a panic before release. Do you worry that people will look back at your past accomplishments and judge, or do you only look towards the next best thing?


EDIT :: Next time you do a game you should Kickstart it. I would happily give you guys $30 to kickstart, especially with artwork and soundtrack extras. I say this because your past games have held such high standards I can happily say I would expect the same again.
I already own Whispered Word and the first Disponia on both physical media and GOG.

German retail edition is going to be DRM-free.

The box is also supposed to be really beautiful )

Oh how right you are about subtitles. When done the right way, you still have to look away from the action to read them. And when a developers does them poorly it completely ruins the player's sense of immersion.

Also, all your base are belong to us. You have no chance for survival make your time.

Question:
After the succes of the Deponia saga and Chains of Satinev...what have you learned about the development of a game released around the world like mistakes, etc. and how have you used that experience to improve "The Night of the Rabbit"? : ) Thanks

Wait, there's boxed releases of their games?!? ... *checks site* ... Awesome!

Hi there!

(1) the deal runs for a few years, actual sales performance doesn't change the terms that we're bound with... but I think that when the retail price in Germany goes down to, say, Euro 19.99 from Euro 34.99 - our partners won't mind us offering German to the GOG audience at $19.99, as there won't be that much of a difference. I think this can happen by Q4 2013 or Q1 2014.

We will of course try to resolve this sooner, especially if (hopefully!) the game sells well in the German retail and our partner makes a good profit - then they will have no longer any risk of GOG digital sales hurting their local retail sales. I think that ultimately it's just a question of this specific risk and in a couple of months things will look differently and we'll have a good chance to resolve this.

(2) yes and no. there will be 2 editions of TNotR on Steam: Regular and Premium, the latter is $5 extra and includes the soundtrack and the audiobook. since GOG doesn't support multiple editions of one game, we went for the most reasonable choice under the circumstances: Regular edition at $19.99.

(3) fully understand & support your idea. we wanted to do this originally, but we ran into technical issues of actually executing such interface that would check what you own and offer alternatives; or just an interface that will offer a choice. i'm sure that we'll manage to execute this eventually at some point this year.

The "What's Cool About It" should be re-written just slightly imo, so it fits better with how GOG normally writes that section.

"It’s a story-driven exploration/adventure from Matthias Kempke, who believes that games design is all about creating new worlds to be explored by players."

"A story-driven exploration/adventure game from Matthias Kempke, believer in creating games that offer new worlds to be explored by players" or something like that, perhaps.

thanks so much for your understanding. we're dealing with a 2011 contract in a 2013 market context, and it's really just an illustration of how much our industry has changed... in just two years! what was "a wish" back then - to have all languages available everywhere, and at one price on GOG - now feels more like "a must", and we're catching up with the trade-offs we've made to make this project happen.

Kickstarter is definitely something we keep in mind, as well as other instruments like Steam Early Access. fingers crossed, you'll see us employ one or both of these mechanisms before end of this year ;)

You sound pretty hostile LOL. Anyways, if you go and check out the Daedalus website in german. You can click on games and select Night of the Rabbit. They include a link there to a digital distributor that is offering the game at a 10% discount if preordered. (That's 27euros). Pretty good deal for a brand new game of this quality.

Hi!

Goodbye Deponia is a co-op with EuroVideo, who fully support our international policy of making GOG audience an integral part of the launch. as you can see from Deponia and Chaos on Deponia, it'll come with all the languages day one, at $19.99 on GOG - hope this sounds like good news )

Memoria is a co-op with KOCH, and this may mean the same policy as with Chaons of Satinav - I need to look deeper into this deal as I wasn't around when it was made. there's still some time for discussion and hopefully even if there are some limitations, we can find a workaround. i'll be able to tell more in a couple of weeks.

on the contracts in general... how does that saying goes, beggars can't be choosers? i think that as far as 2010-2011 contracts are concerned, a lot of choices were made there just in order to make the production happen, from a position of a studio that could not demand this or that, but was required to "either take it or leave it". and we took it, and now we're dealing with the other side of that choice.

finally, language patch - i think that once the first round of retail sales happen, our German partner will be much more likely to OK the inclusion of German language into the GOG build. we're definitely going to keep that discussion going so that sooner or later, but GOG version patches up to become the international all-language build.
thanks for the support, and we do consider both Kickstarter and Steam Early Access as alternatives for raising funds without getting tied down to some sort of limitation for product/players. i also hope that eventually something similar happens on GOG, which would be a great way to shorten the distance between the dev team and the audience.
thanks for all the kind words!

as far as i know, the German retail version is DRM-free in the original sense: nothing nasty.

as to the disc check, i'll have to ask the producer of the game for this.

i would love to offer to German retail customers (in fact, to any retail customers!) free GOG keys. i know that it was discussed this time on TNotR but did not pass, we'll keep raising this topic and eventually it's bound to happen as everyone will benefit.