Trine 3 Story continuation? @Devs

[Zaphod]

Is there a chance the Trine 3 will be completed? I love Trine 3, the 3d was very cool chance and more possibilities and would like to have more! Unfortunately, the story suddenly stops and it is an open end. Will the story continue?

[MarjutFB]

Thanks a lot for your support! It means a lot to us. Unfortunately though there are no plans to continue Trine 3, but we're still fond of the series so hopefully we can continue it later.

Also if you're interested in the Trine world, you could consider checking out Nine Parchments which is going to be released soon. :)

[Zaphod]

Thanks for the quick and friendly answer! Too bad that there is nothing planned to finish Trine 3, but good that there is hope. Nine Parchments looks very nice, as fabulous as the Trine games. I'll follow the development and watch it when it's done. Good luck!

[Orpheus0013]

Originally posted by Zaphod:

Is there a chance the Trine 3 will be completed? I love Trine 3, the 3d was very cool chance and more possibilities and would like to have more! Unfortunately, the story suddenly stops and it is an open end. Will the story continue?

I would actually agree here, I'd love to see more of Trine in this 3d engine so would fully support additional story content.

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Originally posted by MarjutFB:

Thanks a lot for your support! It means a lot to us. Unfortunately though there are no plans to continue Trine 3, but we're still fond of the series so hopefully we can continue it later.

Also if you're interested in the Trine world, you could consider checking out Nine Parchments which is going to be released soon. :)

Out of curiousity, why did you stop Trine?

[EllaFB]

We received a lot of negative feedback after the launch and felt like we needed a breather from Trine. There was also some uncertainty about how the next Trine game would fare after Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power. Would people still buy it?

So we decided to put Trine in the background and focus on other projects. But maybe we'll get back to it someday. :)

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Originally posted by EllaFB:

We received a lot of negative feedback after the launch and felt like we needed a breather from Trine. There was also some uncertainty about how the next Trine game would fare after Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power. Would people still buy it?

So we decided to put Trine in the background and focus on other projects. But maybe we'll get back to it someday. :)

Isn't the negative feedback because you stopped it? Like Trine 3 being an unfinished game?

[LUST]

Originally posted by MarjutFB:

Thanks a lot for your support! It means a lot to us. Unfortunately though there are no plans to continue Trine 3, but we're still fond of the series so hopefully we can continue it later.

Also if you're interested in the Trine world, you could consider checking out Nine Parchments which is going to be released soon. :)

Havent played Trine 3 yet but read the reviews. As long as the story will go further I don't mind the 3rd part being the way it is now.

[EllaFB]

Originally posted by <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Isn't the negative feedback because you stopped it? Like Trine 3 being an unfinished game?

I think there was a pile of different reasons fro the negative feedback. Partly because the game had a cliffhanger ending, partly because people just hated the change from 2D to 3D and one part of course when we said that unfortunately we need a breather from Trine. :)

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Originally posted by EllaFB:

Originally posted by <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Isn't the negative feedback because you stopped it? Like Trine 3 being an unfinished game?

I think there was a pile of different reasons fro the negative feedback. Partly because the game had a cliffhanger ending, partly because people just hated the change from 2D to 3D and one part of course when we said that unfortunately we need a breather from Trine. :)

Oh, I actually kind of liked it. However, I felt that you didn't make a full game. You just made a few stages and rushed to cash in.

[EllaFB]

Not sure if you guys have already read this thread? There is a summary about this from our Vice President. :)

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Hi guys, with the massive amount of feedback we have received for Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power (threads and reviews), we felt it was necessary to respond with some facts and brutal honesty. This will be a long post so please bear with us.

Right off the bat I will say that we are proud of the game and what we have achieved overall. We think it's a fun game and we don't think it's too expensive either considering all the elements we have been able to put into the game. However, our view is perhaps skewed, and we are now realizing that we have been looking at this perhaps from a different perspective and that many players do not accept that. We still think the game is good but the cliffhanger story and the relative shortness of the game are valid criticisms but ones which we didn't realize would cause a disappointment in this scale. Sorry!

I hope this post will help you understand why we made certain decisions and why the game is as it is.

Back in late 2012, we set out to do Trine 3 in full 3D - bigger, badder, better. We took a big risk with the 3D gameplay implementation - it was to be a massive improvement over the previous games in several areas. We have always been ambitious and this time our ambition may have gotten the better of us.

Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power has ended up costing nearly triple that of Trine 2 – over 5.4 million USD. We have squeezed everything we could into the game, there's nothing left on the table. We initially had a much longer story written and more levels planned, but to create what we envisioned, it would have taken at least triple the money, probably up to 15 million USD, which we didn’t realize until too late, and which we didn’t have.

So we did not intentionally make the game “short” as many have said in order to make money off of future DLC or whatever. We tried to make something too ambitious, and it ended up financially impossible. What we sold on Early Access was the “realistic” vision and what we promised is what we have delivered, in our opinion. The finished Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power game might not be as long as we hoped initially, but something we are very proud of nonetheless, and generally around 6-7 hours is what we think new players will spend with the game on average. We're aware that some players have completed the game in less than that, 4-5 hours for example, and we accept that. I'm sure you can speedrun it much faster too, but so you could in previous Trine games and in most other games too.

As for the cliffhanger ending and DLC – there are no plans for a DLC. Continuation of the story is a different matter however, but we have released everything we had and everything we aimed to release since the beginning of the Early Access. The future of the series is now in question, as the feedback, user reviews and poor media attention has caught us by surprise.

Regardless we will continue to fix and update Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power, as we've always done with our games, and I'm confident we'll get many issues fixed shortly (including some of the technical bugs and multiplayer problems). I apologize for those issues and I ask for your patience as we work those out. From our perspective the launch has been reasonably smooth on the tech side, we should be close to a good technical state in a short while.

We will be more active on the forums next week – we'll probably be able to do some support on the forums and by email for technical issues but for other discussions we'll get back to next week. Right now we need a breather to bounce back from all this.

- Joel, Frozenbyte, Vice President, developers of Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Originally posted by EllaFB:

Not sure if you guys have already read this thread? There is a summary about this from our Vice President. :)

Why so expensive?

[EllaFB]

Originally posted by <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Why so expensive?

You mean why the game cost so much to make?

Unfortunately financials aren't exatly my expertise, so I'm not the best person to answer this. But Trine 3 was in production for almost three years and during that time we had ~50-70 employees. And then there are other costs like rent, license costs etc. :)

[Sheru]

Nah cut items/skills, boring quests in comparison with part 2, short game without ending all of this are terrible even 3D are not so bad, what did you expect to release such product?
U had two great games and made after This lmao

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Originally posted by EllaFB:

Originally posted by <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Why so expensive?

You mean why the game cost so much to make?

Unfortunately financials aren't exatly my expertise, so I'm not the best person to answer this. But Trine 3 was in production for almost three years and during that time we had ~50-70 employees. And then there are other costs like rent, license costs etc. :)

Hmmm... I think the better question is why is Trine 3 so much more expensive to make relative to Trine 2? Why is Trine 3 costing 3 times as much as Trine 2 and yet you have less content?