Wolcen on Steam sale

Depends on how much you like from what you seen in some of the youtube videos that has been posted for this game, how much patience you have for a game still being developed, and are you confident that these devs can actually finish the game. If you can somehow say a strong yes to at least two of these three responses, then you know what to do.


I took these approaches with Grim Dawn and I supported them with 85USD (when Loyalist Edition was worth that much) when the game was still not even in early access mode. Pretty risky investment knowingly those 85USD could had went down the toilet, but in the end it paid off. I did try out Grim Dawn when it was first released in May 2013 and despite having only one act, three masteries, and max level cap was 25 (somewhere between 20-30, not sure), the game was very satisfying at that time. Of course, I only played enough to get a feel of the game before putting down until like March 2016 when Crate finally finished the core game. Grim Dawn sure has evolved since its early release days.

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鬼殺し wrote:

Given what Crate had to prove after the gutting of Titty Quest/Ironlore, I'd say your money was pretty securely invested from the start. In fact, it was the whole 'we are going to redeem Titan Quest by making it better than ever, but with a new setting' feel to Grim Dawn that dissuaded me from supporting Grim Dawn in the first place. Which is funny, given I play Titan Quest a heck of a lot these days.

Wolcen is FAR, FAR less secure as an investment. It's had a super rocky development compared to the rock solid progress of Grim Dawn. I wouldn't touch it at this phase to be honest.

It was at a time that Kickstarter was kinda a new thing to approach with funding and seeing some projects either being fakes or just not being able to accomplish what the purpose was set out to be so there are canceled midway through due to still lacking in funding, kinda scared me a bit to support a game that was not even in early access mode. I ended up supporting them like a few months after their Kickstarter campaign ended.


This is just me with limited knowledge of Crate at that time. I got hooked just because of the VERY early gameplays and knowingly I got patience since I was still in school and PoE Open Beta was just a few months away. The kickstarter on Grim Dawn is what gave the ambition to make a bigger game than it suppose to be. The exposure by famous streamers (Kripp/ZiggyD/etc) during alpha (think from May 2013 until Oct 2013) and being in early access program in Steam (starting from Oct/Nov 2013) helped Grim Dawn be a finished product last year due to continuous funding.


I think the moment Grim Dawn appeared in Steam is what calmed my fear and made my investment worth it. I was in the mindset that maybe Crate was being a bit too ambitious in making the game bigger than the original intention from Kickstarter's goal and their budget was not enough to meet that demand. I was very glad that I was proven wrong.


Grim Dawn happens to be one of the few KS video games that ended up meeting/surpassing many expectations and having their product be finished. While Crate is still developing for the game, examples like Hidden Path content, Crucible (ended up being the survival mode content), the third roguelike dungeon (Port Valbury), and the upcoming major expansion, they are already in post release mode for a while now.