Ahh, too many good games coming out now! I thought I was done buying games for this month, but there goes another straight in the basket! I liked Grimrock (though didn't love it), had quite some fun with Eye of the Beholder on my trusty old Amiga and I do love me some steampunk, so I'm looking forward to spending some time in this universe :D

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I haven't bought anything on GOG in ages, due to the ease of use of Steam, but the fact that GOG helped the Linux port just got them a sale :D

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I've been looking forward to this one, glad to hear that I'll actually have the time to play and finish it! Bought and scheduled for tonight :D

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Cybolic[...]

Without any information contradicting what Stephen Kick has said (and he really should be the one to know, seeing as he's both the founder of Night Dive Studios and the project leader), I see no reason not to believe what he's saying. Also, there's nothing to be gained from throwing away the work and goodwill they've achieved so far, so even with my tinfoil hat on, I still see no reason not to trust the update.

We shouldn't ignore it, but we could add some common sense and experience of life and also mind what he's written between the lines or what he didn't mention at all. If I'd be a backer I'd e. g. want to know how much of the money they got is left.

Absolutely. It would be nice to know how much they have left, if they need further funding to complete the project at all or if they need further funding the complete the redesign (which I would assume they don't know before the reassessment is done). In any case, I don't see any indication that the project is over. Night Dive Studios does not depend on this project to stay afloat, so even if they were out of the Kickstarter money (which I doubt; low, maybe, but not out), the company itself is still generating money from sales of other games.
It's still way too early for pitchforks, if you ask me.

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For what it's worth, I just bought every DLC for Stellaris and Cities: Skylines (the two games I do occasionally play) that were remotely interesting to me as well as pre-ordered Surviving Mars. It's roughly what I normally spend on games in 4 months, but I hope this at least pushes the stats slightly more in favour of us Linux folk.

EDIT: If anyone else is jumping on the pre-order, I apparently get something out of it in-game if you use this link https://www.survivingmars.com/invites/jo4DjM ;)

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Quoting: Foxy

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: FoxyFirst they ask for more money to keep up the project & now they decided to cancel it ???

Unbelievable...

The article is pretty clear that it's not cancelled, but maybe you should read the original comment to make up your own mind.

Before saying that kind of things maybe you should learn to build your own opinion instead of believing things of one person especially when this guy who was supposed to lead the project ended up by tooking the money of thousands people to play with it.

Sorry but I don't support this !

If we're just going to ignore what the project lead is telling us and make up our opinion based on whatever we want to believe, why even discuss the update at all?

Without any information contradicting what Stephen Kick has said (and he really should be the one to know, seeing as he's both the founder of Night Dive Studios and the project leader), I see no reason not to believe what he's saying. Also, there's nothing to be gained from throwing away the work and goodwill they've achieved so far, so even with my tinfoil hat on, I still see no reason not to trust the update.

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I'm actually quite positive regarding this news. They were starting to add a bit too many features and the design work, while impressive, was certainly larger in scope than what was initially planned. I think, by putting the project on hold and reassessing, it will be much easier for them to see which new features and designs actually fit with the original System Shock and which were taking the project too far away from its roots. If all goes right, this could very well result in a better final result than where they were heading last month.

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I haven't played with it in a while, but I do intend to get back to it at some point, if not to finish my own little game, then at least to finish my Walker reimplementation: https://twitter.com/Cybolic/status/624493160262184960

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Oooh! I was looking at their blog just the other day and was a bit saddened that I didn't see a mention of Linux support. Sad no more! The game looks fun and definitely something I want to support.

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Sure, they "haven't forgotten", they're just not doing it. It's your average teenager who knows they were supposed to clean their room, they just won't.

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