How the fuck Kingmaker wasn't a success? It sold around 2 million copies, considering the game was sold at 40 dollars, that's US$ 80 million in revenue for a game that cost 900k to make.
+ WotR also managed to raise more money on kickstarter than DOS2 did. Though I also remember it got a substantial boost from the reveal of turn-based mode being supported at launch, along with BG3 being revealed to be exclusively turn-based while the kickstarter campaign for WotR was still running. I think a lot of the hopes behind WotR doing well is a recognition that somehow, the Pathfinder games have become the last remaining major cRPG series to carry the RTwP torch.
Originally Posted by Sozz
Also, If you like WoW then your RPG expectations are I would guess diametrically opposed to Kingmaker's design.
I'm not even sure how WoW is really relevant to all this. Game has a nonsensical excuse plot at this point, and it even having a place in a talk about cRPG design is incredibly demeaning to the cRPGs.
FF14 on the other hand molded me into someone with a great appreciation for world building.
