Lar_q - Thanks for finally making clear what is going on. You may not think it is a big deal, but that's because you know what is going on.
Making hard choices is what game development is all about, and I'd be the last to criticize you for that, but communicating those clearly to the community, when the changes violate explicit kickstarter promises - and make no mistake, when you state something as a stretch goal to gain more funding (such as companions) or write that so-and-so will happen (an n level lair), it is and will be read and understood as a promise from your side that you will do this should funding be achieved, not an optional feature - is where Larian has been deficient.
This whole thread could have been avoided, and you'd have gotten a different and more positive type of discussion, if you had merely made a short kickstarter update and written a sticky thread in this forum stating exactly what you are saying now, that yes, you made those promises, but it wasn't working out as well as expected, so you did this-or-that instead and, most importantly, this should have been done at or shortly before release.
Until your post here, all everybody else could find by googling the internet was an earlier comment from Larian from a week or two ago where it was mentioned that some levels from the lair had been cut - in other words, anybody trying to find out what the hell had happened to a fairly prominent bonus feature from the kickstarter was that there was a lair in Phantom Forest, just not 11 levels deep. Understandably, people went looking - and didn't find.
Anyhow, thanks again for finally clearing this up.
Last edited by Peter Ebbesen; 08/07/14 09:20 PM. Reason: grammatical error
