Wow, Alex finally stopped moving the goalposts! This is like four or five replies deep. haha
It’s always disheartening to see someone defend the crapshow for free. I really hope they were at least getting a little on the side for that song and dance…
I hate to say it, but you guys are getting the feedback you should have expected here. This isn’t going to blow over like you think. Watch it escalate. It will. Just like all the other crapshows happening right now in this industry, and outside of it. The internet yearns for it. We’ve seen so much hot garbage that we’re basically pattern-trained to spot it when it’s about to happen. You should not be surprised at all when this backfires colossally. It has all the earmarks of a wholesale sellout, complete with naïve lip-service. It’s really, really disappointing to see. I had actually begun to believe you guys might be immune to the nonsense a little bit, so I guess that’s my own naïveté on full display. I really want to be wrong, though. There’s a lot of that for people lately, and we’re still waiting for someone to surprise us.
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POE2 is still only half a game, and SSG’s development plans are in disarray, Mark even said a “1.0” release isn’t important so they’re rolling back on just when the game WILL be complete.
What a horror show. I cant imagine worse news.
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“LET it go that route”?
Am I mistaken here or didnt they just sell their game?
They’ll tow corporate line now or be shuffled out the door unless there is a piece to the buyout contract were not aware of yet.
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You guys were almost there. After years, finally on the right track, doing quality work and fixing your release cycles, you sell out. This will be the end of Last Epoch, and its tragic.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… You just buried this game:(
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Per Krafton’s press release, they sold 100% of EHG to Krafton
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Sadly yeah, but I wouldn’t fault anyone for trusting into others, it’s those breaking the trust which are at fault after all.
Yup, the sad issue is… it generally doesn’t happen. And if it’s such a rare occurance that gamers praise the product sky-high… and for good reason!
No Man’s Sky… the golden example of ‘How to make up for your screwups instead of running away’. Sadly one of the only examples out there at all.
Anyone with baseline knowledge of game design knew the second they revealed their timeframe that it wasn’t going to happen. The state of EA release was fine but their follow-up direction cost months upon months of fixing. It never was realistic to be fair.
They reached for the stars and got burned by doing so.
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I am sorry to hear this , to be honest.
I have 0 faith in Krafton after they killed the undisputed best MMORPG ever created ( TERA Online ) with their stupid greedy decisions.
To this day no other MMORPG comes close to the combat that game had yet Krafton managed to kill it.
I hope this doesnt happen to LE because its my second favourite ARPG after PoE 1 ( the real poe)
Excited and dissapointed at the same time.
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That’s great and all but the problem is that it doesn’t matter what EHG does now. At any point in the future Krafton can steer the game down whatever path they want for whatever reason they want.
If people have lost trust because of this acquisition and now the revenue declines they can use that as justification to change the monetization (or other changes including firing LE devs). If the game somehow gets more popular they can try to exploit that popularity by changing the monetization and say it’s required for growth. The cash shop/content/monetization can start changing for the worse at any time and that will always be a concern.
That’s the problem with making a change like this. You lose the trust of your players and that’s very difficult to get back, especially when you can’t think of LE as an EHG game anymore…it’s a Krafton game. The LE part is now disposable/replaceable.
“Today I’m excited to announce that Eleventh Hour Games is joining Krafton […] who shares our passion for the action RPG genre”
Really?
This whole text to me feels like it’s not written by someone “passionate” about the game. This is corporate speech at it’s finest. And i doubt they share passion for the ARPG genre. Money however…
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I mean, if you’re a studio that’s on the verge of going into the negative and you’d prefer not to file bankruptcy, maybe passing shareholder liability off to some other entity isn’t as bad as riding it all the way into the ground. Even if they don’t make the payment, that might be somebody else’s problem by the time these guys hit the door. Every time I hear about one of these, I assume that is the plan.
I think I’ll avoid this game from now on, though. I don’t trust Krafton to put secure software on my computer. Guess all good things must come to an end eventually.
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I hope you are this positive in a year from now. I am truly worried about the future of LE ;(.
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With live service Korean games there is a heavy pay-to-win or pay-for-power model, can you guarantee this will not become the case with Last Epoch?
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Any ‘guarantee’ would be a lie, it can’t be guaranteed as the current EHG team is not in power to make decisions on their own, the last word lies with Krafton, they have sold out 100% of their company.
So the answer is ‘No’.
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(Honestly a little surprised how little I had to change to make this parody)
I look at you all, with a horror awaking
While my guitar gently weeps…
I look at the game, a company is taking
Still my guitar gently weeps…
I don’t know why nobody told you
how to fund your game
I don’t know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you
I look at the world, and I notice it’s turning
While my guitar gently weeps…
With every mistake we must surely be learning,
Still my guitar gently weeps…
I don’t know how you were diverted,
You were perverted too
I don’t know how you were inverted
No one alerted you
I look at the screen, at the game you are staging
While my guitar gently weeps…
'Cause I’m sitting here doing nothing but aging
Still my guitar gently weeps…
RIP EHG. It was a good run. You were the best. It’s difficult to see you go out this way. But I suppose it was never meant to be.
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As a wise Witch Hunter Captain once said:
“You should never grade evils, Kruber. For if one is the worst, then you might be tempted to kinship with the least.”
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Yes theg did. EHG is now fu owned by krafton.
Last thing said in this article
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If they are truly proud of this, I wonder if they’ll start removing or hiding Steam reviews that talk about the fact that this happened. That would be really unfortunate If that were happening already, wouldn’t it? You know, to a review I just happened update, just now. That disappeared from my list of reviews I can see on my profile. Hmm, hmm.
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