Stormgate Dev Tracker

Originally posted by ihatesc2smurfs

Don't want to be a debbie downer, since I know a lot of people are looking to Stormgate as SC2's successor, but does this all this shilling trip anyone else's bullshit alarm? There are a lot of very well-trodden marketing tropes present here: "the devs are SO passionate, listen to feedback, and their office has a gym!" It honestly sounds like a bad marketing intern wrote the copy. Everything is being marketed except... the game itself?

It marketing really reminds me of so many failed high-profile projects (Daikatana, Star Citizen, to name a few): the people behind the game is front and center in the marketing while the gameplay itself takes a backseat. To me, it sounds like they want the hype, but know their gameplay isn't worth the hype, so they try to keep relevant by paying influencers. It doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

One great example of marketing with a comparable company is Grinding Gear Games for Path of Exile. Both companies are indie studios building...

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Originally posted by Wraithost

I was referring to the animated trailer, because while it was cool it felt very basic compared to a lot of modern cinematics

It's new version of IN-GAME ENGINE things. For example in SC2 you will have it on Ray's Bar when Tychus came to see Raynor. For "real" cinematics you need HUGE budget and in FG situation probably this ultra high quality, ultra expensive cinematics will be a waste of money - it's better to have the money to make a good game.

Originally posted by Radulno

mostly the fact that they aren’t beholden to Activision

Keep in mind they have other investors like Epic or Riot (so Tencent) so they're beholden to them.

But yeah I would take those with a grain of salt too. That guy seems to be the only one that played the game and gave public opinions which is a weird thing to begin with (you generally open playtests to a lot of influencer type people).

Originally posted by darrow2021

What's the Xbox controller for?

Originally posted by Armeniandave1

Was this picture taken on a beeper

Originally posted by A_Fellow_Weeb

I'm very surprised but eager about the fact that they're not even that far into development! From the small amount of content we've seen online I think I had assumed they were further along than I thought, and as a result felt that what info I had was not up to the level I was expecting.*

The fact that it's not even begun singleplayer/co-op, and one of the two major factions is still not even remotely playable, means that they'll have so much time to improve the content of the game in leaps and bounds.

I'm delighted to hear all the other info, though I'm not as steeped in RTS games to be able to fully visualize what it means for the final product, but everything else sounds very interesting as well!

Thank you for posting this!

*I was referring to the animated trailer, because while it was cool it felt very basic compared to a lot of modern cinematics. I assumed that because we were getting a video like that, they were closer to the end of development...

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Originally posted by halpmebogs

Inject this into my veins. Glorious

And I love this team so much. Because they are so genuine and transparent, and you have the ability to put your faith in them without worrying about daddy activision stepping in from the back to f**k over the development. I only wish I could buy some merch right now

Originally posted by Cve

If by leak you mean "share with your passionate fanbase who definitely didn't watch a 44 second gif loop way more than they should have" then most certainly yes! :D

Originally posted by Cve

I told you guys, Frost Giant can't stop us. Soon we'll have an entire image.

Originally posted by SKIKS

Interviewer

In the background of one of the images, we got our first look at the alpha UI [a super pixelated, 1/8th of the screen]. Can you talk about the different tabs we see - is that a combined command cart, auto-hotkeys, or something else?

FG

We’ll be sharing more information on our UI in the future. We’re happy to see the community get so excited about anything new about our game, but we want them to remember that we are still very early on and things like UI can undergo lots of change between now and release.

That is such a great way of saying "Can you guys chill TF out a bit?"

Originally posted by Osiris1316

So, if I start a venture capital firm and invest in FG, I can get Kevin to coach me!?

Originally posted by fslyy

never played any rts ever before but somehow i stumbled over this subreddit and for some reason i decided maybe its my time to start my rts journey with this game if it comes out. i am looking forward to it :D

Originally posted by Exherm

This is a bit tangential to the target discussion, but I feel like it is still important. With the launch of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Blizzard is both targeting new audiences whilst supporting their content creators with Twitch drops.

Streamers are streaming the game more which further advertises the game and more people are watching to get the loot which boosts streamer income resulting in more content from the game itself.

To link back to the discussion, I believe that further success can be had by supporting streaming content creators with drops. Maybe even consider old content from battle passes, or two free chests, or extra in game currency for a tier of the pass or two tiers or whatever the value may be. This not only keeps people watching the game's content, but it keeps creators creating content for the game.