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Dear Esther dev's Rapture No longer coming to PC

NoodleFighter · 2013-08-22 06:51:21

Did they even try kickstarter or crowdfunding?http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/08/22/dear-esther-devs-rapture-no-longer-coming-to-pc/Hello, everyone. I come bearing some extremely depressing news. The raptures happening soon, but not to us. Hm, well jeez, when I phrase it that way, it doesnt sound terrible at all. What I mean to say is, Dear Esther developer thechineserooms next non-Amnesia game, the super fascinating Everybodys Gone To The Rapture, is no longer coming to PC at all, for the foreseeable future. Sonys nabbed it for its burgeoning army of indie exclusives, so I guess that means its not allowed to love us anymore. I reached out to thechineserooms Dan Pinchbeck, and he confirmed the bad news. Truth be told, I went in expecting to come away marking off days on my calendar until a period of timed exclusivity was up, but no such luck. When I asked if everybody who matters you know, PC gamers would eventually go to the rapture, Pinchbeck offered a brief, unfortunate reply: No, itll be a PS4 exclusive.We dont have the money or production expertise to make this game without help.Thats a terrible shame, because the Dear Esther successor (aka, the Thur Sesser Detester if you try to say it five times fast) is looking terrifically intriguing. In short, you explore a small town just 60 minutes before some snarling cataclysm leaps from a bush and bites existence in the ankle to death. Various characters spend their final hour in different fashions, and you can either watch them search for peace in the panic or interfere by way of exploration and physical interaction.I queried further as to why were missing out, and Pinchbeck was refreshingly frank:So the thinking went like this, he began. We dont have enough money or production expertise to make this game without help. We dont think we can raise enough through Kickstarter or public alpha to make this happen. We could do with production support on a game this scale. Weve always wanted to make a console game. Publishers have bad reputations all too often. Hey, Sony Santa Monica are great though. Weve met them a few times and really like them and their attitude.Also, PS4 is starting to look very cool as a platform. All eggs thrown into singular basket, Sony Santa Monica contacted, everybody likes each other, lots of love for the project. Long dark night of the soul mulling over implications of shifting across to console. Mix of pragmatism and excitement about the possibilities win out.But what of thechineserooms loyal supporters on PC who among other things sprinted the first-person walk-n'-talkers sales all the way up to well over 750,000? Pinchbeck and co are perhaps more aware of their fan bases mighty contribution than anyone, and theyre incredibly grateful. But they saw a chance to branch out and create an otherwise impossible project. They couldnt say no. Dear Esther fans were very much in our thoughts, but enough of us are multi-platform gamers to make this work for us, explained Pinchbeck. And were in this for the long game, so I cant see us not returning to PC, or doing whatever we can to keep that fan base as we owe them a great deal.But part of that is following our instincts about how we develop and find stability as a studio and this is going to be part of the process. And without sounding like a bought man, the PS4 is genuinely a really, really cool platform, and if people have never bought into console gaming before, this is the time.Which makes perfect sense given the position thechineseroom is currently in, but still: I was really looking forward to Everybodys Gone To The Rapture. Now my brow is crinkled and my shoulders are slumped. This definitely isnt the end of the world, but it kinda feels like it. Blargh. Well, I guess lets just wistfully sigh as we take a brief glance at what were missing. I was looking forward to this game, sony is making me get closer to buying a PS4

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#151 AdrianWerner

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[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]Consolites begged for indies and exclusives and they finally got 1.loosingENDS

All the top indie titles come from consoles

Braid

Castle Crashers

Limbo

Dust

Bastion

etc

.

The only PC indie title was Amnesia and now the sequel comes to PS4 exclusively

Umm....Amnesia sequel isn't coming to PS4 at all, let alone exclusivity.

Also..Braid and Limbo actually were developed for PC first and only near their release moneyhatted. And those are hardly "top indie titles". Most of the "top indie titles" debut on PC and often stay exclusivily on it. Heck, the most popular game in the world was pc indie title once.

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#152 Armoured_Mage

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ohhh noooooo. /sarcasm

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#153 the_bi99man

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[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]
[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]Consolites begged for indies and exclusives and they finally got 1.AdrianWerner

All the top indie titles come from consoles

Braid

Castle Crashers

Limbo

Dust

Bastion

etc

.

The only PC indie title was Amnesia and now the sequel comes to PS4 exclusively

Umm....Amnesia sequel isn't coming to PS4 at all, let alone exclusivity.

Also..Braid and Limbo actually were developed for PC first and only near their release moneyhatted. And those are hardly "top indie titles". Most of the "top indie titles" debut on PC and often stay exclusivily on it. Heck, the most popular game in the world was pc indie title once.

Loosey thinks this new game is an Amnesia sequel. *facepalm*

the dude doesn't even try to not look braindead.

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#154 loosingENDS

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[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]
[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]Consolites begged for indies and exclusives and they finally got 1.rjdofu

All the top indie titles come from consoles

Braid

Castle Crashers

Limbo

Dust

Bastion

etc

.

The only PC indie title was Amnesia and now the sequel comes to PS4 exclusively

There is no such thing as PC gaming BTW, only kickstarter gaming that any PC can play, you dont need to spend 2000$ on a PC when all the worthy PC games can be played on any 15 years old PC

Bastion was released on PC not over a month after console released numbnuts. The rest of those games are available on PC as well, no begging involved.

Usually people dont wait years to play a game

All those came on consoles first

I forgot Journey on PSN too

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#155 AdrianWerner

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Usually people dont wait years to play a game
loosingENDS

Well, you sure didn't seem to mind waiting long time for Witcher 2 and Diablo 3 on consoles.

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#156 deactivated-5bda06edf37ee

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Sony paying big money from exclusives, because the console war requires desperate moves. Not exactly news. This what MS and Sony are both doing.

Just like when MS grabbed Alan Wake away from PC gamers, and made it timed X360 exclusive. ended up just being a postponed disappointment for PC gamers, but still.

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#157 hippiesanta

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people who are loyal with sony love good story telling

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#158 Rocker6

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The only PC indie title was Amnesia and now the sequel comes to PS4 exclusively
loosingENDS

Yeah, just recieved a notice my pre-order got cancelled in favor of game becoming a PS4 exclusive.

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#159 CanYouDiglt

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What I find funny is how the Sony fanboys are fine with this but if it was a Xbox game they would be screaming how Microsoft is a dirty business and they are killing gaming by throwing around their money to buy 3rd parties. We have all seen it also but I am sure they will have some reason why this is different since it is Sony. I am not saying there is anything wrong but just laughing at the never ending hypocrisy of the Sony fanbase.

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