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Hi, I’m on the FG team. We recently brought on a new art director and he’s working on updating the look of our factions. You can see some of what we’ve been cooking here:
Hi, I’m on the FG team. We recently brought on a new art director and he’s working on updating the look of our factions. You can see some of what we’ve been cooking here:
To clarify a possible error in my title, Gerald didn't specify when he reported it to Steam. It could have been after the first wave. But the screenshot from the official discord came during discussion of the second wave tonight.
I’ll clarify—I’ve filed two reports to Steam’s dev support system. Once after each wave, shortly after discovering it (thank you to the community members who have been reaching out to me to report this activity.)
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I’m new to using Reddit, so I don’t really understand what you mean by a "puppet account."
Does my post come across as insincere and sarcastic? If that’s how it seems, I apologize—it wasn’t my intention.
I’m a Korean player who bought Stormgate during its Steam Early Access period, and I even organized a small tournament in Korea using my own money.
I’m not wealthy, so I can’t make a big contribution, but I believe that, as a user, I’m entitled to share my thoughts like this.
I heard from the Korean community that the developers were affected by the wildfires, so I posted this out of genuine concern. I hope there’s no misunderstanding.
By the way, since my English isn’t very good, I used translation tools to write my earlier post. I’m sorry if it came across as awkward.
I appreciate you reaching out and love that you organized a local tournament. Please DM me on the Stormgate Discord as I'd like to share something to thank you for your support.
Nice try, Gerald, but em dashes really gave you away🙃
Not cool.
It looks like we're being targeted by someone who is sending some pretty obvious bots (poor English, copy/paste reviews) to spam our store page. My team is all asleep at this time, but I've reported what's going on and I expect they'll look into it in the a.m.
Thanks for checking in. Some have been without power at home and at least one team member was forced to evacuate. We're keeping our fingers crossed for everyone who's been affected.
This specific instance aside, it would be appreciated if you had a chance to talk to the mods about this sort of stuff anyway. It does feel like the moderation there can be a little heavy-handed lately.
Especially because sometimes, people have no choice but to repeat certain critiques if they want to discuss it, due to Discord’s nature of fast-moving chats
I’ll talk to them.
Respect comes both ways. If you value respect as you write of it. The dog pillers should be banned at least. But they are treated like heroes. Defenders of the indefensible. If you dogpille every gamer that brings the fake review, they will mock you back. The problem? Was the fake reviews, not the users that brought them. The problem? Was the dogpillers, not the ones that moke them. You can't uphold "respect" like a golden sword for your friends, but then let them dogpille on those that call on your mistakes. It's silly, it's lame, its alienating. If you ask for respect then ask your own community. Because they are chill being disrespectful, all in front of your mods and in front of you. Respect geralt. Goes both ways
Our supporters are just as responsible for being respectful as our critics. It should always go both ways.
Dude, if Gerald's position is that it's the big bosses who should apologize, then why the hell is Gerald even getting into the chat room, bringing up a terrible and stupid situation, and throwing out dire warnings about "respect"? 6-)
Being respectful is important and dropping into the Discord just to mock our people is not OK.
I attempted to provide some feedback in the discord that maybe a FG rep should hold the company to a higher standard than blizzard, and that calling it a goof isn't very helpful (I thought a fair and constructive thing to say) and I had fun getting dogpiled by Spartak and his goons for 10 minutes. It's weird in there now.
I actually agree with this take, I didn’t see your comment on Discord or I’d have mentioned to the mods that you weren’t out of line. I believe we should hold ourselves to a higher standard. We are.
Hey, Reddit. This has been a tough couple of days. We don't have an official statement from our CEO out there because he was evacuated due to the recent fires affecting Southern California. A few notes:
FYI, Geoff supports some indie studios without AAA budgets with a number of no-cost "editorial slots" at his showcase events like Summer Game Fest. We're super grateful for his support.
Most people want Stormgate to succeed. How can the community contribute in non-financial ways? E.g. code contributions via new features or bug fixes, art, etc
Helpful steps the community could take include being an active contributor to our discussions here and on Discord, playing the game, submitting constructive feedback, inviting your friends to join you for our 1.0 release, and leaving a positive Steam review.
As for more direct contributions to the game, that gets complicated. I’ve personally received many offers from modders to help with our editor, for example, but we’re still a ways away from being ready to put those tools into players’ hands for testing.
Thanks so much for your support!
u/FGS_Gerald u/Frost_Jex - with kickstarter, early access behind us what is the next big thang that you're focussing on communicating? 1.0 launch? Or is the focus entirely on gatherinf feedback and communicating each patch like 0.1.0, 0.1.2, 0.2.0 etc?
We plan to continue communicating our development progress, like with our most recent patch notes, the art reveal videos, and dev blog. That said, we are going to put a lot of effort into making our 1.0 launch moment as successful as possible.
Read moreu/FGS_Gerald u/Frost_Jex Current engagement with content creators appears to be focussed (correctly) on Blizzard RTS creators. Is there any plan for 1.0 to broaden this to other Blizzard franchise creators or even entire other genres?
Eg. Diablo (Rhykker, DM, Quin, Raxx, etc), Hearthstone (Kripp, TrumpSC, Kibler, etc), WoW (sodapoppin, emiru, Asmongold, etc), Overwatch (Fitzyhere, Flats, KarQ, etc)
Thanks for asking! First, it’s important to recognize the tremendous support we’ve received from RTS content creators. They’ve been amazing.
As for broadening into other “Blizzard game communities,” I feel like we’ve been taking steps in this direction already. MrLlama from the Diablo community (I remember him as MrLlamaSC) did a great interview with Ryan Schutter on our aspirations for the editor. Hearthstone’s Trump (also TrumpSC!) streamed our game during one of our beta reveals. And then of course, Asmongold and Esfand from the WoW community came together for their awesome reveal of our 3P co-op mode, which put our game in front of a big new audience outside of the RTS community. They were all amazing to work with and we’d love to do more.
We’ve had former League of Legends pros and top players from CS also express their support for what we’re building as you’ll find that pro players from many PC genres first fell in love with competitive gaming through RTS.
... Read moreHaha, I remember seeing his 'First Asian to beat Stormgate' trophy ;P. That's a touching story; thanks for sharing it! He sounds like such a cool guy! And I love his work on Warz! :)
I had that trophy made as a reference to this amazing SNL skit: https://youtu.be/3e0tszep890?si=QJrI-1UXjS61nFCu
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We just learned the studio has been through some restructuring, can you give us some details about it?
Like what is different about the new organization, etc...
What is your (open to whoever wants to answer this) favourite memory working at Frost Giant so far?
My personal favorite memory was Simu Liu's visit to our studio. I was fully expecting to meet a Hollywood movie star who was just looking for a business opportunity, but I couldn't be more wrong. Simu is a genuine, earnest, and passionate fan of RTS who really wanted to just show his support for a team looking to revive his favorite game genre.
All of our voice actors, including some of the biggest names around, have been tremendously supportive of our game and in working with us in spite of our limited resources. You'll find that many of them have a past connection to RTS and we are lucky to have had their support.
Beyond being an RTS fan, Simu was super warm and kind, too. He brought a giant stack of books for our team, did individual meet-and-greets and took photos with the entire studio, and played an EPIC showmatch against his longtime StarCraft 2v2s partner on one of our earliest prototypes. His skills are legitimate, too--I'm pretty sure he's a masters-l...
Read moreHow is the Mayhem development going? It's a very ambitious mode with a lot of shakeups thrown in so I wonder whenever development is progressing smoothly or causing some growing pains. What's the initial player feedback? Grimmy doesn't want to snitch >.<
I can share my perspective in being part of the playtests and observing the playtester Discord. The Team Mayhem playtesters have provided us with a lot of helpful feedback and I’d say that testing has been proceeding smoothly and we are seeing meaningful progress. The testers are also producing some solid memes, like this tribute to Albino’s nerf-worthy Kastiel.
A bunch of the Frost Giant devs hopped in and played with our testers on patch day and we had a good time--even if it did feel like many of us were figuring things out considering how much has changed since we starte...
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