![]() I see no reason to believe that OW2 will release ahead of Avowed, unless the latter truly is in major troubles. As far as I am concerned OW2 isn't that much farther in development then Avowed was when it was announced. Look at Bethesda and how often they release new games.īoth Avowed and Outer Worlds2 got CGI trailers with no details and nothing to show. If they indeed aim for AAA rather then something of Outer Worlds scale, then it is hardly surprising it takes that long. Last time I heard, Avowed had about 100 people working on it, which from what I understand is about Bethesda studio size, but well under something like Ubo project or Baldur's Gate3. Neither Avowed nor Outer Worlds are humongous project by AAA standards. These things matter to me.ĭepends what you mean by AAA. ![]() We've not had an active community manager here in years. Separately, when was the last time anyone from Obsidian bothered to post in this forum? I feel that interactiveness with us ended right about the time they folded into Xbox. That's why I never had any real concern or fear that I was not going to get my Starfield and my DA4. That still doesn't preclude restructurings or changing directions both Bethesda and Bioware have done exactly that with their big games even while maintaining a line of communication with their fans. But from the moment they released that trailer two years ago, they ought to have been more interactive with their fans about the game. That they didn't say anything the first three years of develoment I get and I agree with. Well, for me, that coming together point was two years ago when they released the trailer. I just hope everything is going alright there, as I really, really, really want Avowed to be good. So far with Psychonauts2, Redfall, Starfield Microsoft didn't flinch from giving teams more dev time. A nieche unfinished cult classic just won't cut it. And Avowed is larger still.Īnother thing is, that games like Avowed, Fable and Hellblade2 have a lot of importance to Microsoft - those will be first big budget productions made under Microsoft umbrella. I don't remember hearing much about other not-crowdfunded Obsidian games - especially Outer Worlds were roumored for a long time before being shown. They are also in the position to do course corrections - something that PoE1&2 would greatly benefit from. We are not source of fuding during development so Obs can focus on making the game, rather then keeping fans engaged throughout the development process. I don't know how old Obsidian acted - unless you mean crowdfunding Obsidian, which is a very different thing. See Bethesda - they tend to keep things to themselves until the game is at "coming together" point. I don't see it that way - if anything I wish publishers/devs wouldn't advertise their games until they are close to release. This was Obsidian's way previously, to always be close to their fans, but after becoming part of Xbox seems to me like they've developed a certain arrogance and superiority complex and now see themselves as above their fans. But you should definitely keep your diehard fans in the loop at least a little bit.
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