The pause will result in the loss of roughly 15 contract employees who were working on the game, but no full-time Nightdive staff will be laid off. Kick and Kuperman both also emphasized that development is paused, not canceled. "We are taking a break, but NOT ending the project," Kick wrote POE currency trade . "Please accept my personal assurance that we will be back and stronger than ever. System Shock is going to be completed and all of our promises fulfilled."
And since it came up on Twitter, we will note it here as well: Refunds to backers will not be offered, as Nightdive still intends to complete the project.
We'll be delivering a finished game. https://t.co/fjtntU5jfMFebruary 16, 2018
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Correction: A previous version of this article stated that Nightdive confirmed the Kickstarter funds have been "depleted," but it has not officially stated as much.
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Hail, traveler! You seem the adventuring sort. Pause your passage through our website village, and look: a dungeon lies before you. You're not just going to sit there and let it lie uncrawled , hmm? Not when we have a new, magic-throwing girl for you to use to purge its dark citizens, surely.
We've already had hands-on with Path of Exile. It's dark. It's good. And it'll be free . Today, we reveal a new class: the Witch. Sorcery-filled interview and video within.
PC Gamer: What sort of dungeon-crawling person does the Witch suit?
Chris Wilson, Producer at Grinding Gear Games: The Witch's typical playstyle is "blasty." She's generally a glass-cannon class who deals a lot of damage but is very vulnerable. Some players love the combined fun and risk of herding groups of monsters together and trying to kill them in bulk with area-of-effect spells. A lot of fans on our forum have been begging us to announce the spellcaster class. Hopefully they're pleased with the style of gameplay that the Witch offers.
PCG: How does the Witch's backstory fit into the game world? How does a magic user in Path of Exile differ from a magic user in, say, World of Warcraft?
Wilson: Path of Exile has a dark aesthetic. The continent of Wraeclast is a very hostile environment, where the player fears not only the monsters, but also other players and even the environment itself cheap POE currency .
