Wasteland 2 Post-funding Update #59: 2014 in Review, New Backer Reward

The latest post-funding update for Wasteland 2 mostly reminisces on Wasteland 2’s development and release, though some attention also goes to the developer’s future plans and an additional digital reward: John Joseph Adams’ anthology book “The End is Nigh”, which collects a number of “pre-apocalyptic” short stories.

Here’s a couple of snippets:

Physical goods have also been going out and we’ve been pleased to see how happy people are with the standard and collector’s editions of our games. We tried to capture the classic spirit in the design of our box, manual and map and looks like we succeeded! The last step in the physical goods process was the very LONG day of hand signing the Collector’s Edition boxes for the hundreds of backers due those!

Of course, then there was the big one, releasing at midnight on Friday September 19th. Over 25 years of persistence had finally paid off. And thankfully the overall response was quite positive and you all picked up on the nuance and depth we put in.

That’s not to say we feel Wasteland 2 is the perfect game. When you’ve been in this industry as long as I have you realize every game is a matter of give and take and making concessions and hard decisions. But whenever I tell one of my colleagues what budget we made Wasteland 2 on they are surprised we could do it for so little. So while you always feel like a video game can be better no matter what, we are proud of the game we put in your hands.

Next year we will continue supporting and making Wasteland 2 better, Torment will release later in the year and we will be looking at crowdfunding for our next title! Another exciting year for us at inXile and a good year for all of our fans as well!