May 2018 Kickstarter Update and Feedback Survey Results!

Oh. It seems I shouldn't say anything about my ridiculously stupid point or defend myself on that eh. I suppose if I don't quote or tag Cranium it'll be fine for him. Nobody needs to stick up for me or anything like that, I'm not offended, but I do agree with gunlord's stance on things.

I would say that a weapon/boss being cut are potentially a big enough deal to make a negative impact on the game down the line. Locked content is never received well. I don't know to what extent this would cause problems, but I think it'd be a bigger deal than many of the things we're already hearing complaints and controversy about today. So many people that like and get into these games are completionists, having/collecting everything is a major draw for the core fans because it's a design feature and intent of IGA's games. So yeah, my vote was for a compromise. It's fine if someone thinks that's ridiculously stupid.

lovelydumpling : Yes, what I suggested would indeed fit the definition of compromise.

I actually got into a pretty vicious argument with my best friend over the fact I thought the backer content should never be made available to anyone but backers which he vehemently disagreed with, mainly because "oh, you were in a bad financial situation and couldn't back the game, or maybe you're young and your parents wouldn't let you, well SCREW YOU! YOU DON'T EVER GET THE COOL THING" being his main argument which does certainly have merit.

That's personally what I'm not fond of either.

Hell, delay the content for a year, two years even, it'd not be great, but it's really that "all eternity" aspect that drives it home for so many people. Even with exclusive physical content, you can at least buy it off the second hand market even if for an outrageous price. Even if it's been used. There's absolutely no way to get digital content after it stops being sold, at least through legal means.

And a boss fight (maybe the weapon, but mostly the boss fight) is an incredibly out there thing to lock behind an eternal paywall.

And what do we do with any remasters in the game in the future? Should the PS5/XB2 ports never get this content? Should 20 years from now, any remasters, ports, or legacy collections of Bloodstained just be down a boss because of the Kickstarter promise? That the only way you get to play that content again is if you dust off your old PS4, hoping the PSN store for the console isn't shut down or that you still have the game/content installed?

Say what you will about exclusivity, eternal digital exclusivity seems incredibly counterproductive to even backers tbh.

Busterific

I do agree with you about DLC abuse being rampant, I myself do like the idea of continually supporting the game for some time to extend the life of it through DLC, it goes without saying that this has to be handled well or not at all.

One of the things I've been thinking of is what is IGA, Artplay and crew going to do next? I understand that everyone wants them to focus on this game and only this game first but when your running a company you need to have future projects in motion all the time otherwise you are just paying people to literally sit on there asses for weeks or months between projects, DLC would be a viable means of keeping everyone busy and making money for the company as long as it's done right and until Bloodstained 2 or some other project starts up (assuming they don't' have something lined up already which I'm sure they have some ideas). I completely agree that content should never be cut out of the game and then thrown into DLC for the sake of making DLC. However as long as it truly is expanding the gameplay/mytho's I'd very much be open to it.

Busterific

I DEFINITELY don't want any skin/cosmetic DLC.

Yes, based on the fact that there are a lot of people who like and pay for that type of DLC, and some of the survey questions seems to be geared in that direction I think they're already considering downloadable skins.  How this will ultimately play out is left to be seen, but is one area where my hopes are not all that high.  I have been surprised before though.