Larian Studios Forums Divinity II The Dragon Knight Saga / Flames of Vengeance (English) Divinity II - The Dragon Knight Saga Note to Larian about steam!

You should either create a steam forum group or link it to this website. It will get a lot more visiters here.

What do you mean exactly?

There is a Divinity II forum on Steam: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=822

Small question, why is Steam getting exclusives and your own store isn't I thought DKS was supposed to be the flag ship product at the vault's introduction, why put a better offer elsewhere?

To be honest, I'm not a big fan of those exclusive items - imho they ruin the item fever which is an essential component of the gameplay in a rpg like DKS. If the exclusive items are so cool, why would you bother searching for cool gear ? But if the exclusive item isn't cool, why would you bother getting them ? And if you use those super items, then you're probably going to be tempted less to explore the world, and focus more on the main quest, which will lead to you missing one of bigger strengths of the game - the fact that there's plenty of stuff to do all over the place and so forth... it essentially ruins the balancing.

So personally I really think that the best thing you do with those exclusive items is sell them to the first merchant you see so you're not going to be tempted to use them and donate the gold you get to charity, but that's just me of course

The other reason is the word "exclusive" - various vendors want something exclusive in return for promoting the game, so you have to make sure that it's exclusive, which is why we can't offer it (and given my thoughts about them, probably wouldn't) . I actually once proposed a designer commented version of the game to a vendor (basically each part of the game would have commented notes by the designers of the game, what their vision was, what it turned out to be, some secrets etc...), which I thought was vastly more interesting than an exclusive item, but the response I got was - that's very interesting, but can you then also add in an exclusive item or 10 ?

So in short, and I think this goes for the majority of developers, if you buy directly from a developer, you support that developer as he gets more of the income than he usually would get , but you can indeed miss out on some promotions which the developers can't make available themselves for various commercial reasons, the word exclusivity being one of them. You can compare it to buying eggs directly from the farm - you probably won't get the cool toy that goes with it if you buy it in a supermarket either

I am so in agreement with this.

I would have really liked to support you guys but since your price is in euro (in the store) ill end up paying almost 20$ more than the steam version...

Hello, we are looking into the matter to add the US dollars too.
I am afraid this currency won't be available anymore today, but we are doing our best to have it up and running soon. However I can't put an exact date to that.

Agreed, glad to hear a developer admit this. I got Fallout: New Vegas on amazon as I buy everything on amazon lately and it came with some code for special outfits and stuff. I never even bothered using it as they were obviously items that would throw off the balance of the early game. Same thing with Dragon Age and several other games... I ignore that stuff. For this same reason the Steam exclusive stuff does not tempt me, I want my box!