On the owlcat website they are looking for a writer for a new scifi project. Now there have been Starfinder rumors before and in any case it seems unlikely that we'll see a pathfinder game anytime soon, which would be really disappointing, I think.
https://owlcat.games/careers/202
Sad trend if true. We'll have Avowed also, when we should've had a third Pillars game imo. (set before Pillars 1 maybe, unrelated to the Watcher)
Oh well, so it goes.
Let's just say that's not the only project we're working on, and you'll definitely see more CRPGs from us :)
I don't think so. Paizo seems to be doing their best to absolutely shitcan starfinder 1e entirely so I can't imagine them paying to make a game of it so soon after announcing their official end of support forever for it. And I'm pretty sure Owlcat have said they don't like 2e. Also Starfinder 2e looks like an absolute dumpster fire and making a game of it this early would be a disaster.
Just wanted to correct a common misunderstanding of the process.
Unless done in-house, license owner doesn't pay for the games to be made. It's actually the opposite - usually they get paid for the use of their universe by the devs willing to make the game, be that a % from the sales, a one-time payment, or both.
Thanks sweatie!! (=
Hopefully Owlcat has had a sit-down with whoever is the cursed combination of obsessed with puzzles and also very bad at making them. hateot and enigma, just please, have an intervention with this person.
We've significantly reduced the amount of puzzles in our games as you can see by Rogue Trader. Polls clearly show mixed reception of zones with a lot of puzzles, and thus spending a lot of resources on them isn't worth it.
Why are all the big CRPG developers moving away from CRPGs these days? Really annoys me.
We are not moving away from CRPGs :)
The devs don't like PF2E and Paizo isn't letting anyone use PF1E/OGL licenses.
I'm not sure where this common misconception about us not liking PF2E comes from. Seems that it's from some very old interview by one specific developer, which is no longer relevant for years now. Things evolve and change, and there's definitely people who enjoy PF2E in the studio, too.
The realistic argument why PF1E would be more favorable in case of a hypothetical next PF project, is that there's so much mechanical content already made for PF1E in our games, that it'd be a huge waste to simply drop it all. And overhauling it would be... Costly, let's call it that.
But either way, nothing is set in stone on this.
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