Grimoire - Heralds of the Winged Exemplar Takes Flight

Steam now offers the official release of Grimoire - Heralds of the Winged Exemplar, noting this has been in development for two decades (the first mention of the RPG in our database is a preview in 2004). Word is: "After more than 20 years of development, the greatest roleplaying game of them all is finally ready for release! Grimoire is an homage to the classic dungeon blobbers and is inspired by Wizardry, Might & Magic, Lands of Lore, Anvil of Dawn, DungeonMaster and the Eye of the Beholder games!" This post has more on the launch and some fakenews they had to fight along the way:
Grimoire was quietly released in the morning in America without much fanfare and has sold well over a thousand copies before closing hours. Not bad for an indie game written by one person with almost no advertising whatsoever of any kind. The sales seem to be increasing hourly.

Everybody who has played it has known they are on the verge of discovering something really amazing. A lack of understanding of the user interface and game mechanics has not prevented the majority of players from concluding they may be looking at one of the best computer roleplaying games ever written. The smartest ones intuit it, they don't need a press rep to give them a bag of promotional goodies for them to guess it.

For this reason, the manual is a priority this weekend and it will be released as a prototype early next week.

Initial reports of bugs in the display (mostly due to resolutions and display modes that did not exist only a few years ago) were fixed shortly after the game went live. There were other problems with 64 bit machines that were also solved in less than 120 minutes after they were reported.

This did not stop a vocal, dedicated group of politically motivated activists from deliberately purchasing the game solely to give it a bad review and then get a refund. They were trying to stop a tsunami by body surfing the edge of it. That attempt has already tanked. The incline is so suffused in Grimoire it is only a matter of time before their slander of the game is washed away by the sheer volume of people discovering how rich it is.
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Cutter wrote on Aug 5, 2017, 12:25:
20 years and 40 dollars for that? Yeah the guy obviously is a loony.

Heh, many have thought that for years. I'd forgotten all about Cleve and Grimoire till now. If I remember right his big crusade was against piracy and game pricing, but its been awhile. The political battles now don't surprise me as he used to be on the Quarter to Three forums a lot over ten years ago. Ruffled many feathers especially the hard core lefty types there.

So, $40 for Grimoire doesn't surprise me but sure does seem stupid. His project though.
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