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Posted June 03, 2015
With Kickstarter beta access on GOG.com!

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is becoming one of the biggest, most successful Kickstarter campaigns in history.

Straight from the under the watchful eye of Koji Igarashi, one of the godfathers of the genre, comes the newest exploration-focused, side scrolling platformer with RPG and crafting elements. In short, it's shaping up to be the biggest Metroidvania release in recent memory - already surpassing its original Kickstarter goal by sixfold. As of right now that is.

We're huge fans of IGA and Castlevania, so when we heard that Koji Igarashi was returning to the genre we knew we wanted to work with the team to play our part in getting this amazing spiritual successor out there, completely DRM-free, with our signature kind of customer love.

That's why we're excited to announce that we'll be supporting the upcoming release with DRM-free versions to all Kickstarter backers of the game pledging $28 or more!

Everyone who backs the project at the $60 tier (or higher) will receive not only a DRM-free digital copy of the game, but also exclusive backer-only content and access to the beta, all right here on GOG.com.

You can make your pledge over on Kickstarter, and stay tuned for future backer updates with more details on how to get started with your access to the beta.
Post edited May 02, 2019 by Ashleee
Posted June 06, 2015
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AlienMind: Well, you have sold someone a non existent game. All sorts of things..:
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Hope all goes well, though.
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sysaphys: DUDE, talk about being a negative Nancy.
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You know, maybe try reading the fucking thread where the user you barged in to bash with your first post had <i>apologized for the misunderstanding</i>.
Posted June 06, 2015
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Zoidberg: Post still doesn't make sense to me. You seem obnubilated by the crowdfunding part of it. Meh. The issue isn't that most crowdfunded game is terrible, but that most don't even go and BECOME actual games.
Got figures on that. Out of the 28 I backed most are games or still in progress. Or did you just make bad choices with your own crowd funding backing?

Crowd funding it the choice of the individual. They should know that nothing is guaranteed. Knowing that if the game is released they have a GOG option is good in my books. Better than your only choice for digital download is steam. Why would GOG as a company want to alienate existing and future customers by saying no we won't be a distributor for games from kickstarter campaigns when their major competitor steam is.

You have to pick your battles. I don't like regional pricing, but I understand that if GOG doesn't do it sometimes then you have to go to steam to get the game (who do). Why drive your customers away. You still can always buy the game later on special when it works out as a price you can handle (regional or no regional price).

As long as they stand by DRM free gaming and get enough titles we have a legitimate counter to the huge monopoly that is steam. I'll continue to put my money behind that philosophy.

It is good to voice your objections but when you plainly aren't going to change things and are in the minority there probably isn't much you can do.

You complained earlier in the forum posts about hating the rating system being down voted. It makes sense to me in the fact that it is all relative to the community. If most agree with you they will up vote, if most disagree they will down vote. It all evens out. If you find yourself always at odds with most of the community then you have to ask yourself am I out of touch with the community I'm trying to communicate with. So with 469 I'd say you aren't totally alone unless you have been gradually going down over time.
Posted June 06, 2015
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Zoidberg: Post still doesn't make sense to me. You seem obnubilated by the crowdfunding part of it. Meh. The issue isn't that most crowdfunded game is terrible, but that most don't even go and BECOME actual games.
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deonast: Got figures on that. Out of the 28 I backed most are games or still in progress. Or did you just make bad choices with your own crowd funding backing?

Crowd funding it the choice of the individual. They should know that nothing is guaranteed. Knowing that if the game is released they have a GOG option is good in my books. Better than your only choice for digital download is steam. Why would GOG as a company want to alienate existing and future customers by saying no we won't be a distributor for games from kickstarter campaigns when their major competitor steam is.

You have to pick your battles. I don't like regional pricing, but I understand that if GOG doesn't do it sometimes then you have to go to steam to get the game (who do). Why drive your customers away. You still can always buy the game later on special when it works out as a price you can handle (regional or no regional price).

As long as they stand by DRM free gaming and get enough titles we have a legitimate counter to the huge monopoly that is steam. I'll continue to put my money behind that philosophy.

It is good to voice your objections but when you plainly aren't going to change things and are in the minority there probably isn't much you can do.

You complained earlier in the forum posts about hating the rating system being down voted. It makes sense to me in the fact that it is all relative to the community. If most agree with you they will up vote, if most disagree they will down vote. It all evens out. If you find yourself always at odds with most of the community then you have to ask yourself am I out of touch with the community I'm trying to communicate with. So with 469 I'd say you aren't totally alone unless you have been gradually going down over time.
Tyranny of the majority, yeah, I get that.

I can always keep my money and don't give it anywhere, which bums me out to say the least...

Also, I've never backed a project and I don't intend to considering what's happenning in there. I may have in the past but I'd rather not now. Even if Kickstarter opened in France which I guess would be simpler even if I don't live there, being closer than usa...

I understand it's a personal choice and if you decide to go with, you face the consequences. Thing is as for DRM or regional pricing, I am con concerned even if I decide to ignore those. When bad things happen in a circle, they happen for everyone, that's what drives me semi mad. :P

Also, I've decided to not buy anything here with a regional price (for now at least) for the sole reason I refuse to make GOG pay for it, because it's unfair to them, simply. (I got the witcher 3 on another site, gog key, at the "regular" price, so I'm ok with that)

I don't ramble about the rating system because "I" get downvoted, but because it's a silly kindergarten system, to put it simply.

Tyranny, the democracy of the minority, democracy, the tyranny of the majority... and all that. :P
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Zoidberg: Pillars, wasteland and Divinity were all regionally priced too. It's just the icing on the cake, it's a general tendency to encourage all those behaviours. I can ignore the games/devs that does that but in the end it won't matter because of the countless, should I say, sheeps just going mad fanatics over those games.

And as is well known, humans never learn... not from their mistakes, and certainly not from others... :P
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Yeshu: What's whit all that depressing BS at the end? We are talking about games here not Greek philosophy.
Well, I'm sorry but first games are not trivial, at least not to me, and two, the thing at the end is not depressing, it's mainly a general fact to illustrate. Players didn't learn their lesson with preorders, they get burned by crowdfunding abuses, and then they get mad.

*shrugs*

Yeah, not all preorders and crowdfunded project ends badly, but most do to be honest, and while crowdfunding has positives, I don't see any for preorders.
Also, to Illustrate, Spacebase DF9? Total utter BS. Broken Age? HALF-assed. Yeah... I stand by my point of view on this, sorry to say. Yeah there are successes but they are in the vast majority of failed ones.

Bah...
Post edited June 06, 2015 by Zoidberg
Posted June 06, 2015
Put me in the ProtonJon clan. That man is comedic gold.
Posted June 06, 2015
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Zoidberg: Also, to Illustrate, Spacebase DF9? Total utter BS. Broken Age? HALF-assed. Yeah... I stand by my point of view on this, sorry to say. Yeah there are successes but they are in the vast majority of failed ones.
...Got any half-assed or failure cases that don't involve developers with a history of questionable management/business?

Most the travesties I can think of have involved cases where you could see from a mile away what was going to happen. DoubleFine, Uber Entertainment, etc. all had questionable histories, well before crowdfunding entered the equation.
Posted June 06, 2015
Back on topic I'd not heard of this before the GOG announcement. I'll need to sleep on it but I think I'll put in for a Physical version at $60 probably get a PS4 release. I don't have a PS4 but probably will by the time the game comes out and if I understand things correctly then I should get the GOG copy with extra backer content. Win Win. Of course realistically costs for me approach AUD $100 with currency conversion and shipping.
Posted June 06, 2015
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Zoidberg: Also, to Illustrate, Spacebase DF9? Total utter BS. Broken Age? HALF-assed. Yeah... I stand by my point of view on this, sorry to say. Yeah there are successes but they are in the vast majority of failed ones.
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tammerwhisk: Most the travesties I can think of have involved cases where you could see from a mile away what was going to happen. DoubleFine, Uber Entertainment, etc. all had questionable histories, well before crowdfunding entered the equation.
Have this fact prevented those projects from getting a shitload of money?
Posted June 06, 2015
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deonast: Of course realistically costs for me approach AUD $100 with currency conversion and shipping.
+$5 for shipping anywhere in the world. And don't try to frighten us with your s̶o̶r̶c̶e̶r̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶w̶a̶y̶s̶ exchange rates. It's 56 roubles to 1 US dollar now, which means the game is HOLY SHIT 37 TIMES more expensive for me than it is for you no wait currency doesn't work like that. (Although I do have less disposable income and RotN has actually eaten into my food budget.)
Posted June 06, 2015
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tammerwhisk: Most the travesties I can think of have involved cases where you could see from a mile away what was going to happen. DoubleFine, Uber Entertainment, etc. all had questionable histories, well before crowdfunding entered the equation.
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Zoidberg: Have this fact prevented those projects from getting a shitload of money?
People are idiots. That doesn't mean every project should be met with vitriol, hellfire, and brimstone.

There is a huge difference between a notable developer trying to strike out on their own, retain creative control, and forge a relationship with their fans and a developer approaching crowdfunding because they have burned enough bridges that it is the only way they can get funding.
Posted June 06, 2015
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Zoidberg: Have this fact prevented those projects from getting a shitload of money?
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tammerwhisk: People are idiots. That doesn't mean every project should be met with vitriol, hellfire, and brimstone.

There is a huge difference between a notable developer trying to strike out on their own, retain creative control, and forge a relationship with their fans and a developer approaching crowdfunding because they have burned enough bridges that it is the only way they can get funding.
I quite agree.
Posted June 06, 2015
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deonast: Of course realistically costs for me approach AUD $100 with currency conversion and shipping.
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Starmaker: +$5 for shipping anywhere in the world. And don't try to frighten us with your s̶o̶r̶c̶e̶r̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶w̶a̶y̶s̶ exchange rates. It's 56 roubles to 1 US dollar now, which means the game is HOLY SHIT 37 TIMES more expensive for me than it is for you no wait currency doesn't work like that. (Although I do have less disposable income and RotN has actually eaten into my food budget.)
RotN is that a pet dog or something I hear they can eat a lot :)

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did a quick google search and as for acronyms I don't think it is "Revenge of the Nerds"
http://www.acronymfinder.com/ROTN.html
I'm sticking with my theory that your dog ate it :)
Post edited June 06, 2015 by deonast
Posted June 07, 2015
OK. For those of you wondering how the Physical GOG version will work, here is what the FAQ says about the matter:

PHYSICAL GOG DISCS will contain GOG's DRM-free installer. You will receive one GOG key per physical copy. Since your key is emailed early, you will not receive the key with the disc. The GOG key may be required to access content such as updates, patches, and multiplayer modes. The physical disc and the key constitute a single copy of the game.
Posted June 07, 2015
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Grargar: OK. For those of you wondering how the Physical GOG version will work, here is what the FAQ says about the matter:

PHYSICAL GOG DISCS will contain GOG's DRM-free installer. You will receive one GOG key per physical copy. Since your key is emailed early, you will not receive the key with the disc. The GOG key may be required to access content such as updates, patches, and multiplayer modes. The physical disc and the key constitute a single copy of the game.
Thanks for that.

Ok in that case I probably won't back the game since the exchange rate is not great. Where I thought It might be a PS4 copy and a GOG digital copy i could accept the cost to me but I guess I don't want it enough to put in the money. At the end of the day I'm more an RPG type of player.
Posted June 08, 2015
Miriam (one of two main protagonists) reminds me of female Richter Belmont.

$60 for exclusive content? Likely I'll need to upgrade my PC to play this (tentative release date is 2017), but... Backed!
Posted June 10, 2015
Well... caved and funded. I blame you GOG.
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