Version 1.3 nun verfügbar!
Ich wollte eigentlich nur einen Thread öffnen, in dem es darum geht, was Molyneux im Backerforum zum Pay2Win bzw. Gem-Ingame-Kauf gesagt hat. Ich habe ihn gefragt, ob ich es außerhalb des Backerforums veröffentlichen darf. Es ist nicht nur erlaubt sondern auch erwünscht, also kann es ja losgehen.
Darüber hinaus können sich hier im Thread dann natürlich auch all die Beta-Teilnehmer austauschen. Auch wenn ich damit fast alleine bin, wahrscheinlich, haha.
Hier der Post: (Aus Platzgründen im Spoiler)
by pmolyneux » Thu Sep 12, 2013 12:16 pm
As a designer, this new world of sharing development and design with the community playing the game is super exciting. The focus that the forum has on gems needs me to explain some thoughts on this feature.
This is the way I think of Gems in Godus beta:
1) We need to test these systems for the future of the game
2) You should never NEED to buy gems, it will never be a block to the game. There are plenty in the game for your followers to find for you, in the form of tribute.
3) In the last 100 hours of playthoughs I have balanced the game in a way that I have not purchased a single gem.
4) You cannot buy game features with gems, only effectively speed things up, because of feedback we removed gems spending on features
5) Gems cannot be used in multiplayer, in no way are they used as a pay to win mechanic.
6) I regard buying gems as cheating, but some people love to cheat.
Please remember Gems is part of the experiment, how much we use gems we need to test, like any experiment this could result in huge changes in the balance, and even possibly radically removing any motivation to from gems.
The most crucial thing at this stage is to see how the gems experiment plays out. We have already learnt a lot from your feedback so in todays update we will be removing all references and abilities to spend or buy gems from the first establishment period. We will also be looking at the analytics so if people are spending too many gems on the wrong things, hence running out of gems, we will rebalance.
Please believe we love this game and we will never do anything which will make feature like gems be corrosive to what we hope will be a wonderful and delightful experience.
Peter Molyneux
Homepage der Entwickler:
http://www.22cans.com
Steam-Seite (Obwohl das Spiel nach der Beta wohl auch außerhalb von Steam zugänglich sein soll)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/232810
Die Beta beginnt voraussichtlich morgen (13.09.2013) um 17:00 Uhr.