Posted on: April 29, 2016
ssokolow
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Good game soured by terrible devs
The Banner Saga was the second thing I ever backed on Kickstarter after Double Fine Adventure introduced me to the platform and, as a fan of both tactical RPGs like Final Fantasy Tactics and Eyvind Earle's art, the game felt like a match made in heaven. Unfortunately, that view has been soured by my further interactions with the developers. On release day for the sequel, we backers who pledged $50+ (and, thus, were promised all three episodes) and preferred DRM-free games were informed that they had no plans for a DRM-free release of episode 2 and that all obligations on their part beyond SOME form of key for episodes 2 and 3 were limited to the first episode. Worse, while saying that, they also said "We sadly saw increases in piracy once we had a DRM-free for Banner Saga 1. Can't speak for the global game market nor other game developers but it's what we saw first hand over 2 years ago. " 10 days later, after having their game cracked on release day and experiencing a relatively dismal first week of sales on Steam, TBS2 has showed up in GOG's upcoming list without acknowledgement or explanation and, despite my spoon-feeding them examples of ways they can say "no comment" diplomatically, they continue to act like politicians or robots in the backer-only comments while dismissively blaming us for being dissatisfied, for thinking their mention of DRM-free and piracy in the same sentence meant anything, and for and expecting anything more than the most conservative legalese interpretation of their Kickstarter promises our dissatisfaction. I think I'll go re-play my copy of Final Fantasy Tactics instead. Instead of having emotional baggage, that's nostalgic and it's also a complete game. If I didn't have a strict policy of taking the moral high ground and excommunicating DRM-only games, I'd consider pirating the copy of TBS2 I'm supposed to have already paid for out of spite.
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