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Locked in a timeless conflict.

Massive Chalice, a kickstarter-born Double Fine strategy, is available 20% off, on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, DRM-free on GOG.com!

A 300 year war draws near, your people need a leader. Massive Chalice is a turn-based strategy game that spans hundreds of years and outlives generations of fighters. It's a desperate fight where every advantage matters, and a strong bloodline is the greatest one you'll get. No human is perfect, but with careful planning you can breed and design the perfect army which complements itself like sophisticated puzzle. Family matters, so take good care of a young generation and they'll reward you with their lives - through valiant fight their weapons will become Bloodline Relics to be passed on to aid their children in the struggle. Massive Chalice requires you to plan for years and years ahead, as the Immortal Ruler of a nation locked in epic conflict.

As an added bonus, you can pick up the Original Soundtrack for Massive Chalice, also 20% off. Play it on repeat for 300 years!

Forge heroic bloodlines in Massive Chalice, available now, DRM-free on GOG.com.
I like the review and mechanics of the game. Instabought - always love TBS game like invisible inc, XCOM, Xenonaut etc.
Another crowdfunded Double Fine game that comes here with regionally pricing?

It seems that they don't want my money.
Damn, I was a backer and I don't remember the offer of a GOG key. Does anyone know if that's an option?
Would be nice if I could change my Kickstarter Humble key to a GOG key.
Awesome release, DF are great developers (excluding SpaceBase DF9 debacle), they make amazing games. Heck, they even removed GFWL from Iron Brigade after they got the rights back from Microsoft, and they managed to create a great game called Broken Age from nothing in just three years.

That's right, three years ago, they had no story, no tools, no art, no characters, no team, but they still managed to complete a game in 3 years. And not a single backer was charged twice. Oh, and let's not forget that the KS also funded an awesome documentary series, which is also available on DFs Youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/DoubleFineProd/videos), and all those physical rewards that we got.

But of course everybody that has backed knows this? Or did all the haters actually not watch the pitch video on KS.

So, thank you Double Fine for another great game called Massive Chalice. If you go on KS again with a game I'd like to play, I'll support you again.

Just dont do Early Access hoping that will fund the development. :)
Woah, this definitely didn't come up on my rss feed, anyone else have this issue?
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Lodium: About the over funding thing
I dont think a lot of game companys know how manage money properly.
They are programmers, coders, artists and designers, not banking or finance people.
I coud see the argument though.
that's totally ok. but with THREE MILLION DOLLARS! [say it in the doctor evil voice if you must] you can most certainly afford [and should get] an accountant and some form of financial officer to steer your ship.
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opticq: Woah, this definitely didn't come up on my rss feed, anyone else have this issue?
gog's rss seems to be borked as of monday. [well, that's when i started noticing it, anyway.]
Post edited June 02, 2015 by lostwolfe
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lostwolfe: a massive snip follows:

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Lodium: About the over funding thing
I dont think a lot of game companys know how manage money properly.
They are programmers, coders, artists and designers, not banking or finance people.
I coud see the argument though.
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lostwolfe: that's totally ok. but with THREE MILLION DOLLARS! [say it in the doctor evil voice if you must] you can most certainly afford [and should get] an accountant and some form of financial officer to steer your ship.
Oh god, look, you and me could probably live off 3 million dollars till the end of our lives. But those 3 million went into backer rewards, documentary, people's salaries, taxes, utilities, rent etc. It's not cheap running a company.
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Lodium: ...
I mean , i think i read somewhere that Deponia first episode had a much lesser budget but was still a pretty decent adventure game.
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Yeah, because Daedalic uses a lot of unpaid intership. I don't know about you but I believe people should be paid for their (commercial) work.

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JediEagle: Oh god, look, you and me could probably live off 3 million dollars till the end of our lives. But those 3 million went into backer rewards, documentary, people's salaries, taxes, utilities, rent etc. It's not cheap running a company.
Indeed. I don't really understand why people are so fixated on the budget when they did release the game which didn't have a scope of one screen or something.

InXile ran another campaign a year after their first KS campaign without releaseing it and I don't see even a fraction of that vitriol.
99% of KS campaigns has failed to deliver on estimated date and there is usually one odd person out of dozens which complains even a year after it was released how it was a scam all along because they didn't get it exactly on that day - DF still has a plentiful of people who feel the need to vent that.
I backed a small game from a small group of developers which was released and was fine but wasn't so large in the scope as its creators wanted to make it happen or some aspects were that polished and I didn't see the angry mobs around.
Early Access is about paying for an incomplete product. It is not a pre-order, it is incomplete game where you can home it gets developed further because it is nowhere to be said a developer is obliged to deliver all "We would like to" features. Yet people are getting offended that the studio didn't go bancrupt in order to finish all desired features for the game with very low demand.
Geez, the amount of crap DF is getting for all the stuff other projects are not. It got to the point where it is just ridiculous.
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Lodium: I dont think a lot of game companys know how manage money properly.
They are programmers, coders, artists and designers, not banking or finance people.
Yeah, I've seen it a lot with boardgame / tabletop RPG kickstarters. Game creators that decide to get money directly from the players and dodging "ze evil middleman", and discovering that publisher is a real job and not simply passing 3 phone calls and then rolling in the cash.
Some manage to do the jump and become decent publishers themselves after a rocky start, but other simply break under the pressure. Quite sad to see that enthusiasm shatter and a dream project going down due to financial/management/business inexperience.

And more on topic : Looks interesting. I'll look at the reviews of this one. :)
Post edited June 02, 2015 by Kardwill
Finally, a game that lets you feel a bit like a Bene Gesserit. I will try it.

This is the spark of originality that was lost with massive budgets.
Post edited June 02, 2015 by Carradice
Not much interested in any Kickstarter drama, I guess that is why I don't participate in KS (broken promises, unrealistic expectations and all that).

If this game is any good, I'll probably buy it. Interesting though that I always thought Double Fine has some kind of good aura around them, but now I see merely bitching about them (due to KS I guess).
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Carradice: Finally, a game that lets you feel a bit like a Bene Gesserit. I will try it.

This is the spark of originality that was lost with massive budgets.
Still waiting for a Dune-themed game myself too :)
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Zoidberg: Regional price + double fine?

Ugh...
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PaterAlf: Another crowdfunded Double Fine game that comes here with regionally pricing?

It seems that they don't want my money.
1.40 difference to paying with euro


i saw the game so i search on youtube
as i expected its a weird '3d' perspective , with a weird view, requirng funny scrolling , movement, and the likes
so i will stay clear from this one.

if it had been 'flat' and a normal view then the game could have been on my account, but i saw 1 minute of video and my feet began to behave funny so i stay clear from it.

so it also seems they dont " want " my money aswell (or from people who have motionsickness like me).
Every game that looks and plays like this game are a big no no for me.
i' ll sit this one out forever :D
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Zoidberg: Regional price + double fine?

Ugh...
I agree and add a Argh no thanks.
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timppu: Not much interested in any Kickstarter drama, I guess that is why I don't participate in KS (broken promises, unrealistic expectations and all that).

If this game is any good, I'll probably buy it. Interesting though that I always thought Double Fine has some kind of good aura around them, but now I see merely bitching about them (due to KS I guess).
They lost my good will because of broken half age and Tim Schafers comments on gamers gate and other stuff.
Oh and regional pricing too.
Post edited June 02, 2015 by Reaper9988