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"A lot of people" at Avowed studio Obsidian would be up for a Pillars Of Eternity tactics spin off
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"A lot of people" at Avowed studio Obsidian would be up for a Pillars Of Eternity tactics spin off

Pentiment, Pillars Of Eternity, and Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says there's enthusiasm at Obsidian for a potential tactics game set in the same universe as Avowed and the Pillars RPGs, but he's not sure the audience is there for it. "Pillars Tactics is a thing that a lot of people at the studio would like to work on, and there are a lot of people that like tactics games," he recently said on a livestream, but they'd need to work out "a scope of development where it feels like it could actually make money." (Cheers, GamesRadar)

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