May 2018 Kickstarter Update and Feedback Survey Results!

The E3 Backer Demo will be Steam only. The final game will still come out on GOG.  You'll have to play to see what areas are included. 

I'm vehemently against giving away or selling of the backer exclusive content. As with all the rewards, it was an incentive to further back the project and removing exclusivity would take away the personal value to those who backed for it just as making any of the physical rewards available for purchase after the games release would devalue them. Its significantly different from Day 1 DLC as far as I'm concerned because this was not simply time exclusive due to marketing, it was time exclusive due to the very nature of it being a Kickstarter. As for piracy issues, I'd refer to the suppressed 300 page EU study into the effects of piracy on the sales of copyrighted music, books, video games, and movies which found no major harm is done.

Cranium You are not the only backer that feels like this. In fact, this is probably the single most polarizing topic in our community. I have tagged Question with a quote from a guest member to ask about only polling the backers. We have that ability thanks to Fangamer, and in my opinion we should use it IF this is even seriously being considered. Like it says in the first post in this thread in big bold font, "these survey results do not automatically guarantee future actions, features or plans." The publisher may just be putting a toe in the water to see how it would go. Those that are against it are VERY against it.

Interesting results on the survey. Don't see a reason to comment about them, since most people already talked about everything. 

I just wanted to talk a bit about the two shards revealed at this update.

DETECTIVE EYE

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I have a feeling that this is the first Effective Shard revealed in the game. I don't see it fitting on any of the other types.
This Shard is obviously based on Peeping Eye Soul from Aria and Dawn of Sorrow that had the same effect. In both games, such power was among the hardest to obtain, and i don't see why it woud be different here. Showing up breakable walls makes exploration much easier, so, it should be quite a prize. (For information: Peeping Eye had a 1% soul drop chance).


FALD TAIAB

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Fald Taiab (arabic name whose meaning i don't know) is just a basic rapid-fire dark magic. It's fun, but nothing overly special.

Anyways, good update =)

The answer to this from Facebook was that 79% of the survey takers were backers. I think that's a pretty satisfying answer. I don't think another poll would be useful. 

Did you just answer yourself? Anyway I am all for all content to be available for everyone as I didn't like cut content out of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night when I played it on Xbox 360 as I think it was missing a few items and at least one area.

The Gem/Jewel Sword is accessible then through legit means? Proof? Even if so it's a perfect example of missing content.

The Detective Eye looks really cool, and it's a cool name as well. However, it seems like it only works if you're right next to a secret entrance, which defeats the point of the ability to me. If I'm right next to a wall, I tend to attack it, so it wouldn't really help me find anything. I would think that's why the Peeping Eye soul or an equivalent always worked from a distance.

As for the subject of the backer-only content, I'd normally have no issue with everyone having access to any extra content. In this case though, since it was advertised as "backer-only", I don't think it's right to change that. When companies do something of that nature, I find it difficult to take anything they say afterward seriously. Also, while Bloodstained is the only Kickstarter I've backed, I've seen quite a few over the years, and some have had backer-only content. I haven't heard of any of them offering that content to everyone.

Doesn't make it any less frustrating when you could have more stuff to dig into and the same could be said about the backer exclusive content.