As
the dev team mentioned at E3, «the king is the virtual sith lord of the board.»
Not exact matches
He also gave a brief
mention of the future plans of the
dev team: to continue working on new content, quality of life improvements, balance updates, and DLC packs.
While the Kickstarter itself doesn't make
mention of a Switch version, the
dev team took to Reddit to state that they «really want to port it to Switch.»
Not to
mention, they don't seem to take much resources either, which means
devs can simply task one of their smaller
teams, who have little to no input on new games to begin with, to the job, make a quick and easy buck for nostalgists and new gamers.
The
team leading this first Conan Exiles livestream counts creative director Joel Bylos and community manager Jens Erik Vaaler — at least officially and for the time being, as the announcement
mentions that other Funcom
devs might surprise the audience by making a guest appearance as well.
One small note I'm hesitant to add because it's such a minor detail barely worth
mentioning: there were only four other players in the match, at least two of them were on the
dev team, and I'm pretty sure they were actively trying to avoid killing me so I wouldn't place fifth out of five.
Honorable
mention to all of the indie MMO
dev teams who continue to give the middle finger to mass market themeparks and attempt to develop the kinds of niche virtual worlds that define and distinguish this genre.
The
dev team also
mentions that it's working on an Internet of Things version of VLC, also based on UWP, which could transform something like the Raspberry PC into a portable media center.