OPENED STEAM

and well, remembering this makes me happy

this rain is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ world

Yesssss :) art month :3

Frothing at the mouth

watcher soon ?!?! this is so rain world

'But that will not be the whole story. We have multiple updates planned, and the final arc of the Watcher will conclude with the Console release'

Ah, yes. The Early Access approach to story telling.

Can't say I'm happy to hear that, frankly. I want to go in and experience the whole story I'm paying for. Not to, what, find a karma gate that leads to a Stanley Parable style 'To Be Continued' screen.

And it's not like I'll have much choice, either- If you're spreading out these instalments over the months it will probably take to get a fully finished product packaged for console- ((I'm assuming you have the whole story, and are just spoonfeeding it to us while you work on the console part, because quite frankly, you've had a lot of time to make this, even if it's a whole game's worth of content. You've got a lot of people working on this with passion, and a lot of the foundation work already done for you with the modded regions you're naturalising.))

-It will be damn near impossible for anyone passionate about the game and active in the community to avoid spoilers for that whole time if they'd rather experience the tale all in one go.

There's a big difference between promising support for a game, (which, please don't get me wrong, I appreciate how long, and how much you've done for Rain World.) and trying to enforce player retention by withholding.

It really adds a backhand to the tone of the message, winding up with being told how excited you are for us to play this new content, and then connecting with 'We're not going to give it all to you at once.'

Especially since console players _will_ get it all at once, since they're the golden child we're waiting for a complete experience on.

Originally posted by Auraknight:

'But that will not be the whole story. We have multiple updates planned, and the final arc of the Watcher will conclude with the Console release'

Ah, yes. The Early Access approach to story telling.

Can't say I'm happy to hear that, frankly. I want to go in and experience the whole story I'm paying for. Not to, what, find a karma gate that leads to a Stanley Parable style 'To Be Continued' screen.

And it's not like I'll have much choice, either- If you're spreading out these instalments over the months it will probably take to get a fully finished product packaged for console- ((I'm assuming you have the whole story, and are just spoonfeeding it to us while you work on the console part, because quite frankly, you've had a lot of time to make this, even if it's a whole game's worth of content. You've got a lot of people working on this with passion, and a lot of the foundation work already done for you with the modded regions you're naturalising.))

-It will be damn near impossible for anyone passionate about the game and active in the community to avoid spoilers for that whole time if they'd rather experience the tale all in one go.

There's a big difference between promising support for a game, (which, please don't get me wrong, I appreciate how long, and how much you've done for Rain World.) and trying to enforce player retention by withholding.

It really adds a backhand to the tone of the message, winding up with being told how excited you are for us to play this new content, and then connecting with 'We're not going to give it all to you at once.'

Especially since console players _will_ get it all at once, since they're the golden child we're waiting for a complete experience on.

would you rather wait until you get bored of the whole game and leave before it all drops at once, or experience what there is to be offered now and let your feedback help shape the game? we're lucky it isn't a dead drop. they could have left the base game as it was without updates, too, you know.

the watcher releases tomorrow

Originally posted by brot:

the watcher releases tomorrow

is this satire

Originally posted by saint:

would you rather wait until you get bored of the whole game and leave before it all drops at once, or experience what there is to be offered now and let your feedback help shape the game? we're lucky it isn't a dead drop. they could have left the base game as it was without updates, too, you know.

We've waited almost two years for this DLC, and we waited MUCH longer before that. You say this as if another few months of waiting would kill off the entire playerbase- a quarter of which I'm willing to bet won't even know this DLC exists until it drops.

I'd much rather have the whole story available to experience, rather than get a playable demo promising more in some unknown timeframe.

You say we're lucky it isn't a dead drop- I say gamers deserve to have whole experiences rather than indefinite services.

My feedback to help shape the game is as such: Give us the whole content, not the one you've taken a boxcutter to.

These DLCs are great things, but they're also a HUGE part of player-created content that's been repackaged and made easier to access. There's surprises, and touch-ups, but Downpour was once the More Slugcats Collection. And the Watcher has consumed many modded regions- it promises some original ones, as well- enough to make a whole new map instead of modifying the old familiar terrain.

Originally posted by Auraknight:

And the Watcher has consumed many modded regions- it promises some original ones, as well- enough to make a whole new map instead of modifying the old familiar terrain.

i honestly hope that the vanilla / downpour map will connect to at least some of the watcher regions in some way. it would be cool to explore as downpour slugcats in watcher regions.

Good news: WOO WATCHER COMING SOON!

Bad news: The workshop is gonna have even more outdated mods and many will never be updated....

only played rain world for about 4 months but i love the excitement here

HYPEEEE