For a while now, you've solicited community feedback and opinions using the Question of the Week threads in our forums. How important a role does the community play in the development of SiN Episodes

Ritual: The community is extremely important to us. In the end, they're going to be the ones playing the game, so we want to make sure that we deliver a gaming experience that meets and exceeds their expectations.

For SiN Episodes, we're actually toying with the idea of having global community-driven action-based outcomes, which are decided by whichever path is chosen by the majority of people. At the same time, we understand that it may be frustrating to not see "your" outcome become a reality, so we're still determining the extent to which this feature will be implemented.

Episodic delivery also gives us the opportunity to respond and adapt to community feedback from one episode to the next - if a feature is well-received by gamers, we might expand its role in the game, whereas aspects that aren't liked can be changed or phased out completely.