Is this studio dead?

[madks13]

Hear me out.

The previous games this studio released are the 2 Ori games. I own them, and love them.

BUT, those games were released finished, and this one is EA. That is the first difference.
Then, in the store page, if i click on the developer name in any Ori game, it shows me all Ori games. This is expected behaviour. On this game's store page, when i click on the developer name, it brings me to the publisher page, which i don't care about. This makes me think the publisher forced the studio to do this.

Then, it seems there will be a price change once the game releases, this shows greediness. This is a pattern known in publishers mostly.

This makes me think the developing studio, Moon Studios, is now a hollow shell of what it was when it published the Ori series, thank to the bloodsucking publisher.

Currently i do not trust this studio to produce a good quality product like it did previously.

Is there any evidence they can do this properly? Is there any evidence the studio, as we knew it from the Ori series, is still alive?

[PandaSav]

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The reason I bought it and keeping it, again the 1st western game to have good potential for an ARPG. Meanwhile Diablo 4 from a AAAA company has horrible, absolutely horrible floaty ass combat and floaty ass bosses.

I sincerely hope the game comes out as good as the potential it has. I stopped trusting and buying early access games after a 3rd early access game i bought was revealed to be abandoned.

Well BG3 is technically still EA, XD

[Irot Noot]

Publicado originalmente por PandaSav:

Publicado originalmente por madks13:

I sincerely hope the game comes out as good as the potential it has. I stopped trusting and buying early access games after a 3rd early access game i bought was revealed to be abandoned.

Well BG3 is technically still EA, XD

How do you figure, BG3 is fully released and its Steam page no longer says anything about being in EA anymore.

[madks13]

Publicado originalmente por Irot Noot:

Publicado originalmente por PandaSav:

Well BG3 is technically still EA, XD

How do you figure, BG3 is fully released and its Steam page no longer says anything about being in EA anymore.

Being EA or not is not on Steam's side. It is the publisher/developer that sets that. For example Outpost : Infinity Siege. It is not marked as EA but it definitely is since the main campaign is unfinished and stops abruptly. I asked about that and i was told it is because of their publisher iirc.

[Irot Noot]

Publicado originalmente por madks13:

Publicado originalmente por Irot Noot:

How do you figure, BG3 is fully released and its Steam page no longer says anything about being in EA anymore.

Being EA or not is not on Steam's side. It is the publisher/developer that sets that. For example Outpost : Infinity Siege. It is not marked as EA but it definitely is since the main campaign is unfinished and stops abruptly. I asked about that and i was told it is because of their publisher iirc.

What on Earth does Baldurs Gate 3 have to do with Outpost : Infinity Siege? Man, you really like to tie unrelated things together and spin up a story to make it all make sense to you dont you. Baldurs Gate 3 is not in Early Access anywhere.

[Gyson]

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Is there any evidence they can do this properly? Is there any evidence the studio, as we knew it from the Ori series, is still alive?

Is there any evidence that they can't do this properly? Have they had a finished release that flopped yet? Are we just tossing conspiracy theories against the wall now and seeing what sticks?

Seriously.. what is wrong with some of you? I swear it's like you're hoping for failure.

[TrashtheEgo]

Publicado originalmente por Gyson:

Publicado originalmente por madks13:

Is there any evidence they can do this properly? Is there any evidence the studio, as we knew it from the Ori series, is still alive?

Is there any evidence that they can't do this properly? Have they had a finished release that flopped yet? Are we just tossing conspiracy theories against the wall now and seeing what sticks?

Seriously.. what is wrong with some of you? I swear it's like you're hoping for failure.

They don't even understand that Moon Studios is still independent and not owned by anyone, they have basically no footing for anything they said. Let alone anyone who doesn't grasp how much of a success this game's EA is outside of optimization and how much they've already proved in regards to the potential.

[PandaSav]

Publicado originalmente por Irot Noot:

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Well BG3 is technically still EA, XD

How do you figure, BG3 is fully released and its Steam page no longer says anything about being in EA anymore.

For me it still very much feels EA. Don't get me wrong Bg3 an this both good games, but one is very hard to execute, and guess which one that is?

[Kyota]

The devs no longer have Microsoft to fund their games.

The devs need money, that they can't get from their indie publisher.

They release in EA for 40$ to get more money for development.

Once they run out of even that...gg.

[Irot Noot]

Publicado originalmente por PandaSav:

Publicado originalmente por Irot Noot:

How do you figure, BG3 is fully released and its Steam page no longer says anything about being in EA anymore.

For me it still very much feels EA.

Well you arent Larian or their publisher so, yea.. Its released, not EA. Deal with it.

[PandaSav]

Publicado originalmente por Kyota:

The devs no longer have Microsoft to fund their games.

The devs need money, that they can't get from their indie publisher.

They release in EA for 40$ to get more money for development.

Once they run out of even that...gg.

Microsoft are stingy mofos, no wonder not a single good game that is AAA from them XDDDDDDD

[PandaSav]

Publicado originalmente por Irot Noot:

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For me it still very much feels EA.

Well you arent Larian or their publisher so, yea.. Its released, not EA. Deal with it.

Nah

[Kyota]

Publicado originalmente por PandaSav:

Publicado originalmente por Kyota:

The devs no longer have Microsoft to fund their games.

The devs need money, that they can't get from their indie publisher.

They release in EA for 40$ to get more money for development.

Once they run out of even that...gg.

Microsoft are stingy mofos, no wonder not a single good game that is AAA from them XDDDDDDD

And yet they own the Ori games...

[TrashtheEgo]

They were always going to do EA for this though? They intended to finish the game's development with the heavy testing/feedback of EA and getting people into the game's systems to play them in a way they couldn't replicate themselves. Being in EA for this game, and it's ambition is the best course of development.

[PandaSav]

Publicado originalmente por Kyota:

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Microsoft are stingy mofos, no wonder not a single good game that is AAA from them XDDDDDDD

And yet they own the Ori games...

meh, never loved rogue like, side scrawlers

[TrashtheEgo]

Publicado originalmente por PandaSav:

Publicado originalmente por Kyota:

And yet they own the Ori games...

meh, never loved rogue like, side scrawlers

Ori isn't roguelike. It's a platformer metroidvania.