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Awesome, looking forward to it !
I hope backing will grant beta access sooner rather than later. I'll probably back anyway but I'd really love that beta access.
We just sent out a big wave of beta invites to many of our earliest signups!
Awesome, looking forward to it !
I hope backing will grant beta access sooner rather than later. I'll probably back anyway but I'd really love that beta access.
We just sent out a big wave of beta invites to many of our earliest signups!
/u/FGS_Gerald Are the founders pack only exclusive for kickstarter, how about countries with no kickstarter support? I hope we are also able to support the game by buying Founders pack in Steam too just like how other Founders pack in other games like VRising, etc. I hope the marketing team consider.
You will be able to purchase the digital Founder's Pack via Steam, but it will not include certain exclusive Kickstarter rewards like closed beta access. (Valve is an important partner for us and their policy is that beta access for Early Access games can only be delivered to players as part of a crowdfunding campaign.)
We also won't be able to sell collector's edition boxes and statues through Steam, but I guess you knew that already!
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I signed up as soon as I could, filled out the survey on three emails, AND wish listed on steam etc. My brother, who didn’t wish list, didn’t fill out the survey, and only signed up on one email, received an invite to the beta this morning 😒
RNG strikes again
I am old enough to know what the word "beta" means.
/salute
Glad you liked the video! More to come, soon...
Early tester here: gameplay (and graphics design) feels way more like Warcraft than Starcraft.
Hey folks, Gerald at Frost Giant here. It's kinda funny -- StarCraft fans say the game looks/feels like Warcraft. Warcraft fans say the game looks/feels like StarCraft.
Our game director joked earlier that we landed in the uncanny valley right between two of the greatest RTS games of all time, so mission accomplished!
(p.s. friendly reminder that playtesters signed an NDA that is still in effect)
I think u/FGS_Gerald was disappointed that I capitalised the 'G' in Stormgate. It's a mistake I have to live with forever now 😔
This is correct.
Signed up day one. Whatever I’ll just keep playing SC2 lol.
We really appreciate your support. We wish we could invite everyone to beta test, especially our day one signups, but it’s simply not possible without additional funding.
I hope this doesn’t deter you from continuing to support Stormgate and I look forward to seeing you in-game.
I thought their funding was secured? Curious why they are going to kickstarter.
Totally reasonable response. I considered using the title "We are fully funded to launch Stormgate, but we're doing a Kickstarter for other cool stuff," but it didn't have quite the same ring to it!
I went to bed watching and harnessing the power of Giant Grant Games' latest video "Warcraft 3: A Brief Retrospective", which is only 4 hours long, so very brief indeed, and woke up having received the Beta invitation, just saying.
I came to Warcraft 3 as a 7 old kid, so not only did this retrospective really bring back the extremely fond memories of how fun and playful the W3 game style is, but it added GGG's incredibly astute attention to the details of the design of the game as an RTS. Obviously, being a kid back then a lot of the details about the assymetry of the races and W3's innovations of the RTS genre in comparison with previous games were things I didn't realize at the time, I just experienced the game and took all that for granted. However, now, as an adult, being able to really appreciate the design dimension, it was such a treat to watch the GGG video and it has made me soooooo hype to delve into the beta <3
Welcome to Stormgate! <3
got it too. i feel like they sent it to everyone bcs it's not actually an invite to beta, just an invite for a short playtest december 5 - december 22.
December 5-22 is our upcoming closed beta phase.
I can confirm that we did not send invites to everyone. Despite doubling the number of invites again for this phase, the number of signups who still haven't received an invitation to beta is much, much bigger. Meeting that demand is one of the primary motivators behind launching our upcoming Kickstarter campaign.
Read moreFrostgiant didn't create Starcraft 2 or Warcraft 3.
I just want to say that the language "From StarCraft II & Warcraft III creators" is getting wild. I think more fair descriptions would be like "from part of the team that brought you SC2 & WC3" or "former StarCraft 2 developers" as most independent media has settled on. You've deployed the word creators here in a way that its used nowadays in the general media space, like say in youtube or tiktok, to mean — people who work in that media ecosystem. So its a claim that these are people who work in ...
Hi, there! That copy came from me. I never meant to claim that we were the sole creators of Warcraft III and StarCraft II--our track record and work histories are public and we've discussed our respective involvement in those franchises extensively.
It was an honor for many of us to work on those games--on the frostgiant.com website, we say we walk in the footsteps of giants. On my side, I was at Blizzard for 11 years and supported the StarCraft II franchise from the Wings of Liberty launch through the founding of Frost Giant Studios. I have incredible memories of StarCraft and Warcraft that I'll treasure forever.
This was really just a matter of being restricted by the character count on Kickstarter's site. My original copy was too long and I lost some of the nuance in trimming the wording down to the e...
Read moreHey, everyone,
Our Kickstarter Coming Soon page is now live. Please sign up to be notified as soon as the campaign begins!
See you in Stormgate,
-The Frost Giant team
Invites have not gone out yet!
It's far too early in development to know all the details of how the game will be monetized. You can hang on to your gift cards just in case, but they may turn out to not be usable beyond purchanding the base game.
The Stormgate base game will be free.
Careful, crowdfunding an already funded free to play game sounds bad. Why not just run it through your website. Have it as something purchasable with your account. Doing it through Kickstarter has bad vibes to me.
We can’t provide beta keys as bonus rewards outside of a crowdfunding campaign per Valve’s policy. Doing it on our own is not an option.
Blizzard are masters of responsive games in general, so anything that doesn't come from them will feel dissapointing. It's also the main reason why WoW still remains one of the most popular MMOs, because even if Blizzard f**ks up everything else the reponsivness feeling is unmatched by any other game.
Stormgate will be the most responsive at 64Hz (or 64 ticks)—SC2 is 22.4, most other RTS are 8 tick.
No other RTS, past or in active development, matches Stormgate’s responsiveness. (At least as far as I know!)