Obsidian Entertainment just announced a partnership with Paradox Interactive. They will take over marketing and physical distribution for Pillars of Eternity, kickstarter fulfillment included. Obsidian keeps the complete creative freedom and the ownership of the trademark/game and no kickstarter funds will be directed to Paradox so they probably get a cut from the sales after release.
Something like that seems like a viable and reasonable solution for Kingdom Come Deliverance as well since I guess Warhorse also have only little to none experience with marketing and publishing games…
What do you guys think?
Edit: In an interview with RPS Paradox CEO Fred Wester told that they would like to work with other kickstarter developers if they share the same passion for games.
[quote]RPS: [To Fred] Are you interested in pursuing any other projects along these lines, that were born of Kickstarters? Would you go after Torment if that were an option?
Wester: Yeah! It depends on the project and the team, obviously. We want to work with developers who share our vision, to develop great games and deliver more of a full experience to the gamer. We’re talking a lot about fulfilling a gamer lifestyle. Which sounds like a cliché, but a lot of the people who play our games identify with those games. They’re not into baseball or soccer or mountain climbing or something else that takes a lot of time. They’re into these games and they take them seriously. That’s very important for us. We need to work with people who are not developing games just to make money, but to make a game that actually matters to people. I think that is something Obsidian has done really well.[/quote]
