Crate! We Want Third Expansion!

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GD2 is also a possibility, but I am scared that they may be tempted to go down their competitors route and destroy the game. GD2 if developed should maintain the same logic and paradigms as GD1, but utilizes the new Graphics and CPU functionality.

Honestly at this point in time I am actually not worried about them doing anything as limiting as online-only for a GD2. I do believe however that they ‘may’ attempt to have a separate server infrastructure (similar to D2 Battlenet) to better cater to that crowd. That’s all guesswork at this point tho.

I would be very disappointed if they did veer away from a moddable GD in future incarnations and hope they always aim to keep moddability a primary feature. Its offline moddable nature IS exactly what helps it stand out from both PoE and D3 and such a thing caters exactly to a crowd that wants a game with those features. Grim Dawn’s success may not be as sizable as PoE’s or D3’s but I think it’s clear that there exists a sufficient number of us that want these features, enough to sustain a respectable business upon and if Arthur Bruno’s recent posts are any indication he seems content with those numbers and relatively immune to greed when he already has a pretty good thing going for him.

http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?p=678664#post678664

Mysterious uptick in sales since Nov 2nd...

To answer your other question about us become a bloated mega-corp - probably not anytime soon haha. The other benefit of being a single-owner company is that I’m pretty happy with how things are and I don’t feel like I need anymore money, beyond us just continuing to make profits like we are.
So there isn’t much attraction to “blowing up big” for me. I feel like the detraction of having to manage a larger company would greatly outweigh any benefit of moar money at this point.

We’ve gotten inquiries by potential investors looking to dump some money on us for some bigger project but that just seems like a headache to me, dealing with investors and suddenly having to schedule milestones and report what we’re doing, convince outside people to let us do this or that… no thanks!

That said, I wouldn’t mind growing a bit more, as I do have an interest in working on different games and it’s fun to see things progressing and taking shape - ideally at a somewhat faster rate than often is the case with us haha. Currently we have just enough people to work on our “new game” plus a GD expansion. I think we’ll be stretched thin if we start another totally new project. We’re actually in a weird spot currently where it would be great to hire another artist to wrap up FG but after that is finished, there would then be a lull before we get the next thing rolling, where we might not have enough work to go around… so it’s better to just try to grind through with the team we have for now, then hire later, once future things are in production.

That’s exactly the kinda shit I like to read/see from the head of a game company whose game I happen to love to play.