Elemental: War of Magic Development Updates

Stardock’s Brad Wardell has been busy making a handful of updates to the Elemental: War of Magic website, including a “historical timeline of the known world”, a request for fan “positives”, a request for how best to streamline the creation of resources, and a continued promise to offer the game’s first two expansions for free to anyone who purchases it before November 1st. In that last post, he also talks about updates coming to the game in the v1.1 patch:

You know how it goes.

Game company releases game. They put out a series of bug fix patches for a bit and then they move on until it’s time to get you to buy an expansion pack or two until it’s time to do a sequel. If the initial game gets panned or negative reviews, it’s typically abandoned.

And people wonder why gamers have gotten so cynical.

As people in our community know, that’s not how we do things here.

Those of you who hang out here have seen us discussing the upcoming version 1.1 of Elemental: War of Magic. This is a partial screenshot (right side of my screen) of some of the UI updates we’re doing.

For those of you who want to try v1.1 in beta, we plan to put out the first beta in about a week.

Until the end of THIS MONTH (October 31), anyone who purchase Elemental: War of Magic, will get the first two expansions for the game for free (as well as our normal long-term support for the game itself).

The purpose of this entry is to provide space for people who have questions on what we’re doing now versus in future updates.