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Originally posted by SilvertonguedDvl

That's not quite the same - and while I appreciate the response I think you know that.

In SC2, your only real competition, the game you are trying to replace, they offer Raynor, Kerrigan and Artanis for free. One character for each faction, free of charge, so even if you never spend a time on the game mode you can still play it completely and have a high-level commander to compete with your preferred faction at harder difficulties.

You're charging twice as much and I can only fully explore with a single Vanguard hero. I'm, uh, I hate to break it to you but I'm not a huge fan of Vanguard. So for me it's either spend twice as much money on a commander as I would in SC2 in order to just play the co-op mode fully with my preferred race, or... be artificially handicapped unless I spend money.

I appreciate you guys aren't doing this for free and need money, but you also need to build up good will with the community before you start exploiting the...

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Originally posted by itspch

StarCraft 2 was significantly better than Stormgate is for the same time frame

Originally posted by Ok_Towel6772

This is a decent, balanced post. Good communication is everything. Getting everything right the first time is nearly impossible in all cases, and so it's very refreshing to see the hot topics acknowledged in a speedy fashion.

I do think there is one outstanding question that folks can expect some clarity on: what sort of update cadence can we expect in the EA period?

This is important for setting the expectations of players across the spectrum from casual to sweaty, across all modes, and will go a long way to preventing speculation and the echo chamber effect between updates.

Take the issues with Celestial balance right now: a good chunk of the discord, reddit and twitch communities are regularly commenting on it. Simply knowing that we can expect a patch tomorrow, in a week, or a fortnight, changes the context of the discussion from an open-ended "jeez this is oppressive, balance in this game is cooked" to "in four days we get a patch."

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Originally posted by PhoenixRising48

I am genuinely so angry that you are already withholding content for payment.

The cutscenes are placeholders, 3v3 is missing, most of the campaign is "coming soon" but the microtransactions, those are ready to go. $60 given to you in good faith, and the very first thing you do is paywall what little content you have?

I want to love this game, but it is going to be SO hard to undo this piss-poor first impression.

Originally posted by SilvertonguedDvl

That's the plan. S'why I was a bit disappointed they were only apparently unlocking one hero out of the starting three for free players. Like, what. I can't have at least one hero, for free, for each faction? ;-;

Originally posted by judgeshandiwork

Can we PLEASE talk about optimization a little bit? I’m not tech savvy at all and my computer is old but it can run every single mainstream e-sport on medium-high at 90-100 FPS and in order to get stormgate not to explode I need to put everything as low as possible on the absolute lowest resolution in nonborderless fullscreen.

Originally posted by JeremyJoeJJ

Oh I didn't know it will be F2P on release, that's great to hear!

When I go to the Steam page for Stormgate, the first buyable option is the "Buy Stormgate: Early Access Pack" for £21.99. Clicking on the Package Info shows two items, Stormgate for £33.99 and Stormgate: Early Access Pack for N/A showing a £12 saving over the individual game. That's why I thought the game would be more expensive on release. Interestingly, the Deluxe and Ultimate packs have the base Stormgate game set to £21.99. Not sure why that one option is different.

I'll just wait for 13th and see what gets unlocked. Looking forward to trying out the Celestials.

Originally posted by Cybaras

Free hero for backers and ultimate pack is definitely more rewarding than what was originally offered (two campaign chapters and a fog of war skin). As to speculating what that hero might be according to the roadmap we will be getting two coop heroes later in 2024.

I speculate one of those heroes will be Ryker on account that his model is already functional in the campaign. The second hero I believe will be the arch angel with a sword that we see on the new promotion art. It makes sense that celestials will get another hero as they only have Auralanna for coop compared to the other two factions.

I personally hope the free hero will be the celestial hero as it makes up for the fallen celestial that Warz should have been in the first place.

Originally posted by arknightstranslate

Audio level is one thing, having no sound effect at all is another. I heard you do have sound engineers, so how did this completely unpresentable sound design go through? Exo, Atlas, and so many more have no attack sound and it kills the experience much more than you might think.

Originally posted by johnlongest

Great responses across the board, but I'm a bit disappointed there's no addressing criticism of the story, in particular how derivative it appears to be of StarCraft and Warcraft.

Originally posted by StormgateArchives

Felhog plush when?

Originally posted by JacketAlternative624

That's a very wrong take.

1. There is no reason to assume people who liked your game didn't like it from the start but because they liked your game they played more.
2. There is no reason to assume that a person hating your copy paste story from warcraft would like it in hour 30.

Also the only comments you make are on threads that are somehow positive - ignoring mountains of negativity from pricing to gameplay to story. Which only shows that you are quite happy with what you made people pay for.

Originally posted by jznz

god bless that engineer. do you have an address where I may send him cookies and a thank you card?

Originally posted by SKIKS

Whoot! Awesome!

Any idea how frequently there would be posts?

Originally posted by SKIKS

Sort of on that topic, but for an old man like me who can't keep up with discord chat logs, I do hope they start posting weekly or bi-weekly community updates, kind of like what SC2 had during LotV. It's good to have a sense of what they are focusing on at any given time, especially because there is going to be so much to do at once that they will need to prioritize, so it would give a clear picture of what is getting changed and when.

Originally posted by Senkyou

Loved the game so far, and loving watching streams during work. I have family in the game development industry and see that it's hard and complex work. Keep it up. Hopefully the community can reign in some of the more negative communication behavior over time, but I'm sure there are plenty of people like me who see a lot of greatness and even more potential.

Originally posted by VahnNoaGala

I haven't played campaign, but the 1v1 experience has been great and I am really enjoying myself, so thank you for that! I really hope FG can get a 2v2 ladder going soon