"A lot of people" at Avowed studio Obsidian would be up for a Pillars Of Eternity tactics spin off

But "not that many" would bargain it, says Josh Sawyer

Pentiment, Pillars Of Eternity, and Fallout: New Vegas manager Josh Sawyer says there's enthusiasm astatine Obsidian for a imaginable tactics crippled acceptable successful the aforesaid beingness arsenic Avowed and the Pillars RPGs, but he's not definite the assemblage is determination for it. "Pillars Tactics is simply a happening that a batch of radical astatine the workplace would similar to enactment on, and determination are a batch of radical that similar tactics games," helium recently said connected a livestream, but they'd request to enactment retired "a scope of improvement wherever it feels similar it could really marque money." (Cheers, GamesRadar)

This isn't the archetypal clip Sawyer has mentioned specified a project. He said past September that a fewer developers astatine Obsidian person "floated" the idea. According to Sawyer, the assemblage "is not huge, typically, but precise passionate. People that are into [strategy] RPGs, tactical RPGs, they'll play a batch of them, adjacent if they're not that good. It's a hard 1 to marque a lawsuit for," but "every erstwhile successful a portion we bring it up and spell 'oh, we could maybe…"

The Pentiment dev returned to these sentiments successful the caller livestream. "Tactics games person a precise enthusiastic fanbase, but the fanbase is not humungous," helium said. "It's benignant of similar that level is precocious - like, if you marque a decent tactics game, those radical are gonna bargain it. But if each of them bargain it, that's inactive not that galore people."

Obsidian Chief Egg Overseer Feargus Urquhart precocious revealed successful an Ian Games interview that the workplace was inactive reasonably modestly sized for the large fund RPG space, with astir 300 employees compared to, for example, CD Projekt Red's 615 oregon Larian's 470 (thanks PC Gamer). That's not gigantic for a workplace that has different RPG project, Outer Worlds 2, pursuing Avowed aboriginal this year, truthful it's not astonishing they'd privation to beryllium cautious with however they allocate resources. Their attack to financials is refreshing too, saying successful a caller DICE speech that they spell into each task assuming "mild success" alternatively than gangbusters.

I'm extrapolating a spot here, but it sounds to maine similar (at the workplace level astatine least) they're a squad that privation to marque wealth truthful they tin marque much games alternatively than the depressingly communal inverse. Whatever I thought of Avowed, that feels similar thing to celebrate.