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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7672518" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> That was my point. It is what they are *not* saying that has me concerned. These things matter to me with regards to if I'll buy a video game. Right now, the video game market is, IMHO, in a big change-over. The "big games" model, like Halo, Oblivion/Skyrim, and Destiny (...which, btw cost $500 million to make... O_O ) are going to die-off or mutate into something else... and the Indi video game sector is pumping out a bajillion games every week. And I'd say a GOOD percentage of those indi games are rather good if not outright excellent. I play a lot of 'alpha/beta-build' indi games; many of them are fun as is, and will only get better. Like "The Forest" or "Cities:Skyline" (both available on Steam). Lots of other cool games I just don't have the cash for right now (Stranded Deep, ARC, Salt, Blockscape, Medieval Engineers, Besieged, Kerbal Space Program, Kholat, the list goes on and on...!)  Anyway, before I get into a big diatribe about video game creation (I do that as a 'serious' hobby; I'm a 3D artist by trade, and have been making maps and assets for various video games since the day I installed DEU and WadAuthor for making DOOM maps back in 1994 and 1995), I'd just like to say that when a "big video game launch" deliberately hides things that a fair number of it's targeted audience would be interested in, it's always a bad sign.  So expect a game to be released that has many features that many people would assume would have been in it (re: modability, primarily; it is an RPG with direct player and DM input). Then, after some decent negative press/reviews, they announce that "Modability was always planned, but we just wanted to get it into all our fans hands, so we had to delay it for a bit. A patch will be forthcoming in the following weeks/months that will address this". It won't be a hard date. They will hem and haw about "soon" and "it's almost ready" for weeks if not months...trying to get as many people to buy into it before they release it. When they do, it will either (A) work flawlessly and be more than what was asked for [very unlikely), (B) it will work, but only barely meet the promised criteria [re: you, as a modder, have to jump through 19 hoops in order to get your new magic-item into the game....in stead of just a one or two click "import"], or (C) it will be released in two patches; one is for players and lets them access stuff uploaded by a DM, and the second one is for DMs...which will be basic [but don't worry, for the "serious DM" there is always the monthly subscription "Master Dungeon Tools" option which lets the DM add/change stuff he wants and store it all 'online' ala Obsidian Portal campaign's, but with SCL].  I'm hoping for A, but expecting C.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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