I think this is just an excuse to delay it. I don’t think there’s that many big releases coming up this year.

15 year old game at this point

“Review bomb” aka getting bad reviews.

Loss leader to buy market share. It was never going to be profitable at those rates.

I played through most of this years ago and didn’t see the appeal

got a strategy in place to start a new company up at the drop of a hat.

That’s where Obsidian came from. They’re former Black Isle

I thought the ambience of the first one was amazing, but that the gameplay was boring as shit.

Yeah, it’s clear that what’s available on Epic is still “early access” even without that label.

I thought Gearbox self-published Borderlands 3? It’s gotta be civ7.

As an aside, man 2k doesn’t have shit going for them. I thought they were a much larger publisher than that.

Because too much of SC2’s design catered to the progamer crowd that liked that kind of stuff. They made some things easier from an APM standpoint but intentionally added more things to make the have not APM intense.

They really bet wrong on how popular that approach would be.

Yeah, the industry as a whole has been moving away from these types of processes for the last 15 years. There are exceptions where it can still make sense but they have significantly higher risk profiles than video games do.

You can keep your grubby ITIL process far away from me.

Not everything needs a change management procedure, calm down there Satan.

I didn’t mind the cards, thought they were kind of fun during the free weekend. The Dawson’s Creek style social stuff (that seemed like it was half the game) bored the crap out of me though.

They should do No One Lives Forever next.

I mostly heard that it was boring at the time. Which was unfortunate, the concept was cool.

Cool I guess. Though I don’t know why I’d want to play a shooter designed by a composer…

Warlords Battlecry 3 works now? Nice, I was trying to get it going a couple of years ago and gave up.