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Spiders release fantasy RPG GreedFall 2 in early access, as its frustrated workers are offered concessionsTeer’d release
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GreedFall 2 | Early Access Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube
GreedFall 2 | Early Access Launch Trailer
Spiders say that this release includes the “beginning of the main quest”, and note that extensions to that story will be drip fed in future updates. Aside from that the release includes three regions to explore, six companion characters to party up with, and six skill trees to clamber up. Future updates are marked for unspecified times in “autumn” and “winter”, and will bring further companions, plus side quests related to those sword-swinging pals, along with new regions and a crafting system.
Behind the scenes, there have been grumbles of dissatisfaction from workers at the studio. At the beginning of the month roughly half the studiosigned a letter calling for a strike. This was to address their frustrations at working conditions in the company, including “global mismanagement, turnover and recruitment problems, unacceptable delays in achieving gender equality and parity, important lack of transparency, denial of problems… and blocked negotiations.”
The studio management replied that those accusations were false, saying they “in no way reflect the reality of the day-to-day working life of the company’s employees and are an attack on the reputation of the studio, whose teams are fully mobilized to produce quality games.”
Regardless of the studio’s inner conflict, GreedFall 2 will have to improve on the team’s previous games if it wants to impress some players. The first GreedFall didn’t wow Astrid very much intheir review. “In GreedFall, the first three hours make you want to astrally project out of your body and float away to do or see literally anything else,” they said, “and then you reach the island of Teer Fradee and you’re like, ‘Oh! This is actually mediocre!'”
