I honestly have no idea if its gonna be good

Maybe if we could get a "best of" changelog?

Frogboy - I think almost everyone playing the Beta agrees FE has already surpassed E:WOM in every category.  Are there websites that those of us who don't post outside your forum can help with?

Bad News is sad because we really want to see what's next, but we'll be here when you're ready for our input.

Is Relias "dominating monsters" on the map?

I'd say it's still too early.  At some point, hopefully by Summer, the game will have reached a level where it is indisputable excellent. And then we'll spend another few months making it even better.

In the near term, it'll just be a matter of those who never played WOM but still feel the need to comment on articles anyway, not being able to dominate the conversation on what Fallen Enchantress is like.

The reason we're putting so much time into FE is because we know that Fallen Enchantress has to be really really good in order to overcome what they call in marketing "the narrative".

There's still many months between now and release. And we're getting amazingly high quality feedback on FE that Derek has been able to use to extend and enhance different parts of the design or tweak assets and features that were just starting development. I wish I could say more but you'll see what we mean soon.

San Fran and LA.  Oh, it would be awesome to get together sometime. Unfortunately, my "handlers" have me booked every minute of every day. 

Frogboy, it would be my pleasure to do whatever it takes to help FE !

I perfectly know what you means with critics, I'm Belgian and me, other belgian poeple, Switzerland, France and Quebec mostly go on one site : jeuxvideo.com sadly, the bad news, those testers are really bad and crappy, though millions follow it ! The testers are really critical and quickly throw bad notes to cool games and 18/20 for call of duty... Blah ! They killed the community of so many good games "thanks" to their horrible reviews !

No need to say that WOM was thrashed ! Some players, like myself, try oftenly to save a game but stupid poeple oftenly have reasons of us

I read them for their news but I hate their test ! They too oftenly put a 9/20 for good graphics and 12/20 for playability ! They kill the game because they never try it totally and magically skip lots of functionalities they also as you stated, kill a game because of its predecessor IE : WOM.

I wish you won't meet those guys

FE deserve a lot even if I complain a lot about it, I love it ! I just hope critics will see what FE is worth ! A very good game which this time, deserve to be called a dign successor to MOM even if a lot of work is still required And that the future (after release) brings addons that will fill any lack ! I wouldn't mind a couple DLC too.

You know what I hate the most in critics ? It's that they stop in time, one review, one bad note and there's never any change no matter how hard the company tries by correcting with patches !!!! IE: Magicka, a weak 14/20 when the game evolved like crazy and is plenty of fun right now with all it's content ! The devs made a fantastic job to improve everything butbrew comers still act the same because of jeuxvideo.com ! Same with the test of other website !

Well, I wish you all the best and let us know what we can do  

Honestly, I was burned too hard on E:WoM and I haven't seen enough of FE to hype it at all. There haven't even a half dozen "beta releases" so far.  I  haven't seen enough patches to judge a solid design concept, or to judge a commitment to squashing bugs, or to judge a commitment to improving the game based on player feedback.

The good news is that the opposite is also true.

It is autumn now!!

Nice!

Hm. We should say that Fallen Enchantress is good. Is it good? It's certainly getting there. But it's not yet in the state where I start ejaculating bars of gold as soon as I boot it up. It's better than some folks will assume, I'm sure, and I'll correct misapprehension when the story drops and you link the article at us.

Hmmm, i think it is too early to show FE to the press, because many features are missing (complete faction differentiation, useful diplomacy, good AI) or need to be balanced (initiative, dodge, many spells, many talents). If you want a preview with depth that says more than "FE looks interesting" i would wait until you have completed and tested beta 3, because it sounds like you are releasing beta 3 too fast.

My head is spinning.      Really.  Because...

The bad news is the good news.  Give us a beta when it/you are good and ready.  Okay, I'm a little sad to wait another week to play a new iteration - but I'm very happy also because I assume that means it really is going to be new and worth playing/beta-testing.  Last thing I want is some buggy piece of crap.

But the good news is the bad news.  What have you got to take to the media?  This game looks like it has promise... yeah, so?  WoM also had 'promise' it just never fulfilled it.  I'm not sure where the disconnect with reality is but I do know there is a big one here.

I can only guess you are living by the 'any publicity is good publicity' motto.  Be careful you don't die by it.  Say as little as possible, drop a few enigmatic, tantalising morsels and then coyly evade any questions.  Trying to 'sell' it at the moment is a recipe for disaster.  Make a good game and it will sell.