Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting - coming February 18th

[ColonelMace]

Maybe the pricing is purposefully botched to help sell subscriptions to their live gaming service.
Maybe they're setting obsidian up for an automatic failure so they can more easily justify shutting them down and reusing anything they can out of their assets and ips themselves.
Maybe they're actually trying to push that price tag raise they've been fantasizing about since the 2000s.
Maybe they've played Avowed and realised first-handedly that it was the game of the millenium.
Maybe they hate Poland due to their heroic resistance to wokism.

Who knows ?

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

 

[Turisas]

That'll teach you to bitch about exorbitant prices.

 

[AwesomeButton]

$70, what the fuck? Weren't they going on and on about how this was an AA game, not AAA, small team, try to understand? You can't say that and then charge AAA-prices. Tsk.

You don't get the 4D chess. They are setting up the excuses for the bad reviews - Microsoft misunderstood the AA scope, and made us charge AAA price.

 

[thesecret1]

"They can't give you a bad review if they're too poor to buy the game."
-Sun Tzu, Art of War

 

[Gargaune]

$70, what the fuck? Weren't they going on and on about how this was an AA game, not AAA, small team, try to understand? You can't say that and then charge AAA-prices. Tsk.

You don't get the 4D chess. They are setting up the excuses for the bad reviews - Microsoft misunderstood the AA scope, and made us charge AAA price.

"AA" is a bullshit distinction without a difference. There's "indie" for the exceptionally cheap-and-cheerful crowd, then "games" in general, and then "AAA" for everything past a certain production threshold, and that runs all the way from Avowed to GTA. The key is that past that threshold, products are primarily competing against one another for the player's time - Avowed, KCD2, Veilguard, BG3 etc. are all running in the same AAA space and charging ten dollars more or less ain't gonna be the driving factor for purchasing one over another (or at all).

So Microsoft are likely making the right call here because ten bucks won't save Avowed from the comparison pillory and they may as well make as much bank as possible on the people who are going to buy it regardless. It's still the same market segment, this ain't like when Sean Murray priced his stupid little indie game into the AAA sector and the expectations that come with it.

 

[Late Bloomer]

You’ll Be Able to Buy Obsidian’s RPG Avowed With World of Warcraft Gold — 1.3 Million Gold at Today’s Prices

https://www.ign.com/articles/youll-...arcraft-gold-13-million-gold-at-todays-prices

Here’s how it works: WoW Tokens can be exchanged for Battle.net Balance, not just game time, which means players can indirectly buy anything Blizzard sells for real-world money with in-game gold. Players can buy a WoW Token from Blizzard for $20 and either keep it for later or put it on the in-game auction house. Another player will (hopefully) buy that token from the auction house for in-game gold, then exchange it for $15 of Battle.net Balance (Blizzard effectively takes a $5 tax from the transaction). Battle.net Balance can then be used to buy anything Blizzard sells for World of Warcraft for real-world money, including video games.

 

[Tenebris]

They're really sending this game out to die. What is Obsidian thinking? There has been little to no marketing aside from constantly telling people what the game isn't going to have.

 

[Alienman]

In before it gets a crypto value.

 

[Morality Games]

I checked the Steam forums and saw a lot of Euros balking. Checked the regional pricing and



Obsidian employees have mentioned in the past that their games have done better in Europe than in America, but no way that's happening this time. Does Microsoft want this to fail? This is seriously a massive fuck-up.

Charging 349,00zł when Cyberpunk at most is 199,00zł You STUPID mother fuckers.

We live in the era of Game Pass. I don't think Microsoft wants the game to sell at all.

 

[Elttharion]

You’ll Be Able to Buy Obsidian’s RPG Avowed With World of Warcraft Gold — 1.3 Million Gold at Today’s Prices

https://www.ign.com/articles/youll-...arcraft-gold-13-million-gold-at-todays-prices

Here’s how it works: WoW Tokens can be exchanged for Battle.net Balance, not just game time, which means players can indirectly buy anything Blizzard sells for real-world money with in-game gold. Players can buy a WoW Token from Blizzard for $20 and either keep it for later or put it on the in-game auction house. Another player will (hopefully) buy that token from the auction house for in-game gold, then exchange it for $15 of Battle.net Balance (Blizzard effectively takes a $5 tax from the transaction). Battle.net Balance can then be used to buy anything Blizzard sells for World of Warcraft for real-world money, including video games.

Thank God I already purged all the gold I had in my wow account or I might have been tempted to buy this just to see how bad it is.

 

[Cryomancer]

There is psionics in this game? And watershapers? I honestly didn't liked Pillows of 4e 2 but liked playing it as a watershaper.

 

[Jaesun]

Avowed: At Least It's Not Veilguard.™

 

[HoboForEternity]

$70 like m$ purposely sabotaged this game's future and i actually felt bad.

 

[Harthwain]

Avowed: At Least It's Not Veilguard.™

Let's be real, I doubt any game will be able to beat Veilguard for quite some time. Avowed may be either a somewhat interesting mix Skyrim and Dark Messiah at best or an utterly mediocre game at worst. It being set in the Pillar of Eternity setting doesn't help (in my opinion). I think it would've been way better to just make it into a dark fantasy or a fantasy with dark undertones (like Dark Messiah was).

 

[Thalstarion]

I'm just not feeling it.

I played the original Pillars of Eternity game and enjoyed some elements of the world building and the darker/horror elements. The quarantined area within the undead, Heritage Hill, was pretty cool. One of my biggest pet peeves was the backer NPC's. I don't like my immersion being ruined during exploration. I could begrudgingly ignore it, though.

I haven't played the second Pillars of Eternity game yet. It's in my backlog and I may or may not play it someday.

I don't like the Marvel-esque tonal shift for Avowed and though the environments do look rather nice, the design of the actual inhabitants of the world give me pause. The undead don't look as creepy and fearsome as in the original game and none of the companions really resonate with me at a glance.

I'm also pretty tired of the recent trend of shying away from conventionally attractive fair skinned men and women, both in regards to actual companions as well as NPC's dotted throughout the game world. As a personal preference not to mention it often being a clear sign of a game being at least partially compromised by the pursuit of DEI/ESG/BRIDGE.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2302753295?t=3h52m42s



They played the game for almost two hours.

 

[countrydoctor]

I finally realized what this game reminds me about. A fucking Underworld Ascendant. Aesthetically, they are like 1:1 match, the same oversaturated cartoony aesthetic with a vomit of purple and greenish colors. It's especially obvious when there's any skeleton on screen.

 

[Havoc]

Why is combat so slow? Jesus christ.

 

[cvv]

Spencer threw this game in the ring with Kingdom Come, Assassin's Creed and Monster Hunter and he slapped it with a 70 dorra price tag.

 

[Yosharian]

> I haven't played the second Pillars of Eternity game yet. It's in my backlog and I may or may not play it someday

Oh man, you have to play it! It's so exciting what happens with Eothas in the end!

 

[AwesomeButton]

You’ll Be Able to Buy Obsidian’s RPG Avowed With World of Warcraft Gold — 1.3 Million Gold at Today’s Prices

https://www.ign.com/articles/youll-...arcraft-gold-13-million-gold-at-todays-prices

Here’s how it works: WoW Tokens can be exchanged for Battle.net Balance, not just game time, which means players can indirectly buy anything Blizzard sells for real-world money with in-game gold. Players can buy a WoW Token from Blizzard for $20 and either keep it for later or put it on the in-game auction house. Another player will (hopefully) buy that token from the auction house for in-game gold, then exchange it for $15 of Battle.net Balance (Blizzard effectively takes a $5 tax from the transaction). Battle.net Balance can then be used to buy anything Blizzard sells for World of Warcraft for real-world money, including video games.

Truly, Obsidian are setting the gold standard for RPG!

 

[thesecret1]

Obsidian has a hit on its hand, they're just marketing their games to the wrong audience. Gamers? Pfft. Hear me out here: insomniacs. Staying awake while playing Outer Worlds is borderline impossible

 

[Harthwain]

Truly, Obsidian are setting the gold standard for RPG!

Honestly, I think Obsidian was at their best when they were working on other developer's games.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Truly, Obsidian are setting the gold standard for RPG!

Honestly, I think Obsidian was at their best when they were working on other developer's games.

DIfferent developers back then.