Planetary Annihilation

[Deadlight]

Quick access - 80 quid to you, sir. Crowd funded (Kickstarter) I know, but 80 quid? Discuss.

[kalniel]

It's £68, don't exaggerate

lol yeah, it's a lot, but it's basically the tier which gets you early access plus a bunch of stuff - there are even more expensive tiers which you don't have to buy if you don't want. You're funding the game development, not simply buying a game.

[cptwhite_uk]

I really, really don't see what people are getting so worked up about on the Steam forums.

During the Kick Starter campaign you could get a retail digital copy for ~ £20, get earlier beta access for ~ £40 and even earlier alpha access for ~ £90. You got other things with the higher level tiers too.

Fundamentally nothing has changed in this regard. The perks you get buying through their site have changed somewhat and I suspect aren't as generous, but that's to be expected now the game is further into proper development.

Still if you missed the Kick Starter they're just keeping the door open for alpha access to newcomers. Obviously they're not going to suddenly give people less commited to the game alpha access for less than the early adopters, that would be slapping their core fans in the face. Hence they've kept the same basic pricing structure.

People are moaning it should have followed the minecraft structure of cheaper the earlier you buy in, but it's entirely up to them what they charge. Not willing to pay more than £40, fine, wait till September and beta access, not willing to spend more than £20, wait till the official release in December. You're paying for early access only if you want too they're not forcing you, and the game will be available for the usual price come release day.

It's simply a case of impatient kiddies want everything now for nothing, and not working through the logic of why it has to be this way. You don't see people moaning when the game they bought on release day at for RRP is available for £10 3 months later. While somewhat different given this is alpha stage it's essentially the same principle - pay more if you want it sooner. It will be available at normal price for a retail release by the end of the year, if it bothers you that much wait till then and in the meantime stop crying about having the choice to buy in now if you want too and be thankful they've given you the option.

PS Wasn't referring to you specifically Deadlight, just the moaners in general

[Deadlight]

You're right - don't know where 80 quid came from!!

[snedger]

Hello
£4.59 on Steam this weekend.
I've read the reviews and I know they are telling me that I will be wasting my money - will probably lead me to spend even more money on a new gaming machine, that my playing skills will not justify ownership of - but, going to buy it anyway
Cheers

[rob4001]

Hello
£4.59 on Steam this weekend.
I've read the reviews and I know they are telling me that I will be wasting my money - will probably lead me to spend even more money on a new gaming machine, that my playing skills will not justify ownership of - but, going to buy it anyway
Cheers

Let us know what you think I am interested in that game. Sometimes they need to be re reviewed as improvements are made overtime.

[snedger]

My thoughts exactly - bugs get fixed and a lot of reviewers don't provide enough spec info to have any purpose other than to let off some frustration steam.
Just played single player for 70 minutes - not a sniff of a glitch, or crash - left video settings alone - medium.
Complaints about no tutorial are well founded - I was a bit overwhelmed - luckily previous TA; SupCom gameplay helped a lot - but not enough.
Totally mental playing RTS on a sphere, rather than a flat rectangle.
Booming classical anthemic soundtrack, a teeny bit like being in the film Interstellar - this game would play so well on a PJ screen - I'll hook up to my 27" monitor later - 15" does not show off epicness enough.
My laptop plays games surprisingly well for integrated graphics e.g. SupCom; WoT play better than my previous 6 year old dual SLi gaming laptop.

Specs are: Acer Aspire V7-582P - I7-4500U - 8GB RAM - Intel HD Graphics 4400

Question: my CPU spec is I7-4500U @ 1.8GHz - but then the processor is quoted as 2394MHz (don't know why the spec mixes Giga and Mega) - so does that mean my laptop was shipped with the CPU overclocked? Might explain how it seems to punch above its weight.

Conclusion: I've already had a London pint's worth of fun - am glad that I took an irrational gamble and am very happy that my instincts were completely wrong.

***Edit - OK, so second play, game crashed after 43 minutes - not sure why, as Microsoft help came back with "content not available", but there was a hint of a message suggesting low memory.