E3 2015 IGA and Ben

I seriously doubt E3 will have a playable demo. That was probably just optimistic of Ben to want that for the backers. There was new talent brought in, an office move, and I think some other stuff that may have paced the project behind that original hope for a playable demo by E3.

I've never wanted to be so wrong though. I'd love to play a demo.

yeah, curry the kid joined iga after the ks, and the office move affected igas part of the team for a little bit but they were still in contact with inti during that time, and most of the slowdown at the beginning was the discussions on locking down the shader (important for visuals like colors uvs bumpmaps textures and setting tone, but not for backend stuff like coding modeling assets or story), after that was out of the way theyve seemed to be progressing really quickly and they had the content planned out for mar-may ready at the end of feb so all this is leading up to something, and that e3 is mid june cant be a coincidence, whatever it is in june, its gonna be BIG! (runs past the shack and dives into the ditch)

Daaamn, I'm getting excited!

That's exactly what I want as well. While the updates have been very awesome, I would love to know more about what they're specifically working on or how much they've achieved. Just to get a general idea on how things are progressing. 

I'm not concerned. I get to play the game I care about sooner and then get a stream of updates to keep my attention as they get completed. I'm in this for the main game and the stuff that typically comes with igavania's like 2nd playable character or boss rush....

The other stuff to me is glorified free DLC content and glorified DLC content shouldn't keep this main game away from us an extra year or so... 

Well please explain, I'm having a hard time seeing the difficulty of this. You bought everything and everything will come but instead of waiting an absurd amount of time for modes that were never originally intended to even be in the game you get what was intended and then you can download the rest as it becomes finished.

I get people who like to collect things wants a full package which is why I can SORTA understand why holding back the physical copy might be okay, even though I think that's unneeded. We live in an age where games get DLC and a lot of the content the game got added on sounds like the kind of content you'd get AS DLC.

Right but this is the decision that the team made and I respect their views on it above anyone else's including my own ( even though I side with them ) . They're the ones making the game and they're the ones that deem this the best approach probably because it'd take far too long if they waited for everything to be done and puts them in quite a rush to get things completed which sacrifices quality. People listing demands like ...you should hold off certain physical copies for the people who want all the content is kinda extreme for a team that has enough to worry about.

I'm not saying people don't have a right to be annoyed but I think they're doing it for the right reasons. You can't please everyone and I'm willing to bet you're more willing to piss off more people by holding the main game much longer due to extra modes, then the other way around. Which was exemplified by the Mighty No 9 fiasco all over the web.

Yeah, I think you raise a good point, Castledan. In today's environment, especially given the controversy around MN9,  delays can seem even more irritating than staggered content to a lot of people. While it might be nice to have everything out in one shot, if you can't do that, staggered content definitely seems like the lesser of two evils. Especially since feedback on the base game can guide development on the extra stuff, offering you a chance to avoid problems that might have been encountered without advance warning if you'd just released the whole package straight up.

Ok I was going to leave this be but it turned to a hot topic and since am responsible I'll share a few more words.

To crocodile, it is entirely up to you to respect or not want to respect an opinion that doesn't follow a rational explanation that meet your thoughts, am a person like that too, however in my life at least there are some things where you can't bring yourself to accept and/or apply logic (not talking about Bloodstained and games for that matter). We're not robots and one of my beliefs is that logic stops where emotion begins. I had to ask for a favor that the majority of people would consider paranoid, something I knew isn't the norm but was completely possible and achievable as long as the person agreed.

Second, just because am possibly the minority doesn't mean that my opinion is illogical because it isn't. If the situation was reserved and mostly everybody preferred waiting more does that mean that the few people that were fine with a staggered release are crazy? No, it's just a matter if what works for you and in this case what's best for the majority. I realize that and of course I'll live with it and besides we don't even have concrete information of how will this work if it even happens. Which is why I was going to wait. I may even change my opinion depending on what I hear. I never demanded for things to run the way I saw fit.

Third, of course I knew from the beginning that since the game expanded so much by the end of the kickstarter that it was completely possible that they may not reach the deadline. If we had to wait 4 or 5 more months, hey it would have stung but I'd live with it. This depends on so many factors though. If they approach us and tell us the situation and the options, what they have calculated and how it will work for them as well people can decide what's best and some sort of poll or vote can decide. If it's like some of you say that the full game will be released and only something like external modes such as boss rush will be excluded then yeah it could become a different story. But the certain thing is that it makes things more complicated. You can't tell me it wouldn't be easier for them to just worry about a single release.

There are different factors and variables in this that can affect something which will affect something else. It's like some sort of mathematic equation. I can't really put to words what the scenarios are since am not there developing the game nor I know what the developers think is best for the game. For the people that can't wait to play the game and support this ideology more power to you, in the end chances are the game will turn out fine anyway. But am favoring them taking their time for everything, worrying about releasing a single package the way the initially intended.