Like Sorcerer King? Review us!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/241990/
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First of all, thanks to everyone who has joined the Sorcerer King Early Access beta. Your feedback is hugely appreciated.

As developers, one of the most frustrating things is to see the people who enjoy your game shouted down by drive-bys from people who haven’t played it.

The new Steam paradigm makes community involvement more important than ever. If you are so moved, the team would really appreciate anything you choose to do over there.

If you like Sorcerer King, there are a couple things you can do on Steam that would help the game out tremendously.

  1. Review us! Reviews from people who have actually played the game are the best thing in the world. One of the coolest things about Steam is that it displays your playtime right there at the top of the review, so you can be sure that it’s from someone who has some idea what they’re talking about. 
  2. Curate us! Even if you have two followers and one of them is your kid brother, curation is awesome.
  3. Tag us! Is there a tag you think applies to Sorcerer King? Even just agreeing with the current “fantasy” “strategy” “4x” “turn-based” tags is helpful.

Note that we would never, ever ask for fluffy or dishonest reviews, tags, or anything else. If we haven’t earned your upvote/review/recommendation yet, that’s okay! We’d appreciate it if you’d tell us what we could do to earn your enthusiasm, though.

As a side note, tweet us @stardock if you do any YouTubes, streams, blogs, or any other Sorcerer King thing and we’ll give any high-quality stuff a shout-out on our official Twitter/Facebook/Twitch/forums/etc. We love to spotlight stuff like this from our community. (“High-quality” meaning production values – non-blurry cams, understandable audio, etc – not being uncritically positive about the game. We probably won’t retweet trolls, but we’re big kids and can handle criticism where it’s warranted.)

Thanks again for your support.

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Reply #1 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Done as DevildogFF, though it's being down voted to oblivion. I don't understand people sometimes.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting XWerewolfX, reply 1

Done as DevildogFF, though it's being down voted to oblivion. I don't understand people sometimes.

I cannot find your review. What is your Steam username?

Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from SorcererKing Forums Top

As I stated in my PREVIOUS POST ;) it's written by Devildogf!

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting XWerewolfX, reply 3

As I stated in my PREVIOUS POST ;) it's written by Devildogf!

Haha! I thought you've meant "I made a review just like (other dude) DevildogFF". English is not my first language  |-)

Your review is thumbed-up by 8 users and thumbed-down by 4 users. It's not downvoted to oblivion  ;P

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Meh. I've promoted the game on one of the least forgiving forums there is (CanardPC) and even managed to generate some interest towards this game. But I don't think giving positive reviews to this game at this stage is a good thing (I'm not saying negative reviews are more appropriate :p). It's at the stage where the game shows a lot of potential, but it's very much an early access, and I think Stardock has the financial spine to survive if people wait for release and a polished game. Encouraging anyone but the most dedicated fans of the genre and of Stardock 4Xes until then seems risky and counterproductive to me.

Reply #6 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Just for the record, Sorcerer King like all Stardock games is fully funded and not relying on Early Access for funding.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting abiessener, reply 6

Just for the record, Sorcerer King like all Stardock games is fully funded and not relying on Early Access for funding.

Yea, I think the argument that Stardock does early access for the revenue is one of the allegations that annoys me the most.  

We have always done betas specifically so that people have a chance to put in their 2 cents on what things they'd like.  Starbases in GalCiv came from the beta testers.

In Sorcerer King, the beta testers have already given us a lot of new features we want to have.  For example, I'm adding in the concept of "Player Threat" for the Sorcerer King which will affect his behavior towards the player.

The one negative review on the Steam forums that really annoys me is the one by the guy who really has no idea what Sorcerer King is about or where it's going but talks as if he does.  

That's one of the things I really dislike about the new Steam discoverability. Why have paid reviewers when some guy who's barely played the game can trash it on the front of the store page?  Is Steam a game site or is it Amazon.com?

Reply #8 from SorcererKing Forums Top

I will write a review on Steam just as soon as I can. It will be positive as I am really enjoying the game.

In the meantime, here is a link to my somewhat inept Let's Play on the 'ol Youtubes:

 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu_Uxi6l_RLNIogusjBVuJSD0Df_6qBtg

It is 5 episodes long (and growing) but it could use some more views! ;)

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Reply #9 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Quoting abiessener, reply 6

Just for the record, Sorcerer King like all Stardock games is fully funded and not relying on Early Access for funding.
I know, which is why I said what I said. I wasn't saying "as opposed to what you are telling people, you don't need the Early Access money". I'm saying "it is a well known and accepted fact that you aren't doing EA for the money, so I'm wary of bringing in people too early when the game is too far from a finished state"

Reply #10 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Quoting marlowe221, reply 8

I will write a review on Steam just as soon as I can. It will be positive as I am really enjoying the game.

In the meantime, here is a link to my somewhat inept Let's Play on the 'ol Youtubes:

 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu_Uxi6l_RLNIogusjBVuJSD0Df_6qBtg

It is 5 episodes long (and growing) but it could use some more views! ;)

 

I watched the videos and have enjoyed them.

I don't comment on Youtube, though. I don't like some of their policies.

Reply #11 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Quoting marlowe221, reply 8

I will write a review on Steam just as soon as I can. It will be positive as I am really enjoying the game.

In the meantime, here is a link to my somewhat inept Let's Play on the 'ol Youtubes:

 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu_Uxi6l_RLNIogusjBVuJSD0Df_6qBtg

It is 5 episodes long (and growing) but it could use some more views! ;)

Do you have a Twitter account you post those to?

 

Reply #12 from SorcererKing Forums Top

wrote a review.

Reply #13 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Quoting Thormodr, reply 10


I watched the videos and have enjoyed them.

I don't comment on Youtube, though. I don't like some of their policies.

Thanks for watching; I am having a blast making them and embarrassing myself with my absent minded professor style of play!

Quoting Island, reply 11


Do you have a Twitter account you post those to?

 

I'm afraid that I am a bit of a grognard and don't use twitter much... My wife is my only follower and I think that is just to be polite. But what if I did do such a thing?

Edit: For what it's worth, I tweeted the first episode of it: https://twitter.com/marlowe221/status/519964967311650816

I am @marlowe221.

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

I will hold off till the November features are in. Sov customization, SK interference in battles, minor faction interplay... these are major 'variety' factors in my view.

Reply #15 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Quoting hedetet, reply 14

I will hold off till the November features are in. Sov customization, SK interference in battles, minor faction interplay... these are major 'variety' factors in my view.

This.

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

Just to be clear, I have faith, and the previews Frogboy gives all sound great - but I'll wait till they're actually in the game first :)