Wolcen Hype Release!

I'm wondering why the people who are so rabidly anti Tencent are so quiet about Tencent being a big investor in Wolcen Studios? I would have thought that would be a major turn off.

https://medium.com/@projectmq/tencents-games-without-borders-support-for-indie-devs-worldwide-b69d1ecb3b9

Investing in and buying out a majority share in are a bit different. And anyone upset by Tencent simply making investments in a game and/or game studio should probably stop gaming.

If they actually bought out Wolcen Studio, there would definitely be some pissing and moaning. Most wouldn't even know it happened or care much if they did know, so long as it didn't have clearly negative affects on the game.

But who knows, Wolcen could even be better off if they did... :P

It's still a bit janky but initiating fights between Amalgams via Parasite is a LOT of fun.

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Randall: that was one article by two guys (projectMQ) with like 400 followers and I can't find any other evidence of it, anywhere. When people make the claim that Wolcen is somehow dependent on Tencent, they *always* link that article. It's literally the only hit you'll get if you search 'Wolcen Tencent". Please note that ANYONE can publish anything on medium. It's just a blog host.

Sorry but one blog post by a couple of relative nobodies isn't proof enough for that big a claim. I call BS.

edit:

https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/25/projectmq-wants-to-help-you-find-indie-games/ -- this is the only real bit of news I can find about 'projectMQ'.

https://gwb.tencent.com/ -- absolutely no mention of Wolcen there.

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Altnaharra wrote:

Pruning a branch can save a tree.

The easiest way to kill a tree would be to chop it down.

The funniest bad translation I heard in Wolcen is in act 3 several times.

Battle scene. One side (usually protagonist) yells: "TO ME! TO ME!"

In Wolcen it is "ON ME! ON ME!"

Made me chuckle. There are other prepositional errors.

Hell, if I had to write a game's dialogue in French there would be all kinds of linguistic faux pas. I don't even want to think about it. Other than some of the odd prepositions the translation is pretty good. Not that that is an issue with this game.

I am getting bored of same tilesets in end game over and over.

I figured you'd quit after that castigating review, honestly.

'On me' is something I noticed as well, but I get how it happened. 'On my command' or 'on my signal' both work, so 'on me' seems like it would be a perfectly acceptable abbreviation thereof. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've seen 'on me' used this way before by native speakers/writers. Oddly finding no real hits discussing it; 'for me' vs 'to me', however, seems a difficult one.

A strange thing to get stuck in your craw but it happens.

I've seen similar 'mistakes' by English-fluent Europeans who excel at formal English but struggle with idioms and everyday speech. So I just mentally skipped over it, as I do whenever I hear an American say 'in back of you' instead of 'behind you'. I know it's grammatically correct in AmE ('back' being the opposite of 'front') but to someone raised on BrE it just sounds uneducated and intuitive. Still, that's how language evolves, and for the most part I could care less.

...goddamn I hate even typing it that way in mockery.

Fairly sure Wolcen was written in English. They did an interview with their 'new' writer back in December 2018, when the game was emerging from alpha-level development hell. I don't think you'd write that much in French if you planned to use professional British voice actors, which they always did.

Oh I haven't quit yet. I hope they do add more tilesets though. Go back even a few years in PoE and there were few and now look how many! I have seen complaints about it but the game is too new to expect many more now.

Interesting. I couldn't write such a scathing, zero-positive-points review with a Not Recommended conclusion for a game and then keep playing it. Seems disingenuous somehow, but then again, I used to write professional reviews for various sites back when that meant something other than 'shill' or 'clickbait' so I guess I'm more inclined to a balanced approach. A gamer's review is likely to be more...emotive and momentary, focusing on the negative aspects the way a hammer finds the jutting nail.

Looks like the next 4 months will be mainly "polish" and smaller QoL features.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/424370/discussions/0/1744520688774147146/

The cash shop is the key part of the announcement. They rushed the game so hard so they can implement it and milk as much money as possible. I bet finishing the cash shop will be their priority numero uno. Get the money from the poor schmucks who still believe in them before even they leave.