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“ reportedly enforcing uncompensated overtime, allegedly trying to pay staff below minimum wage, and a toxic work environment cultivated by an alleged abusive leadership.”
Saved you a click!
not only is it tragic that these devs were so mistreated, but it sucks even more that they went through all that bullshit to produce such a WET TURD
Nacon demanded AAA performance from a $16M budget game. This was a massive leadership failure. It's a miracle it launched at all.
A most cursed miracle.
Perhaps it would have been a better miracle to have never launched at all...
I think it's a wet turd at least in part because they went through so much bullshit.
Explains why the game was so bad
I for one am shocked that this game was a disaster of a production. I don't think anyone could have seen this coming to light.
I mean nobody wanted this game in the first place, couple that with this sewage outlet and there ya go. They really had a follow-up game planned for this? Like it was gonna be a hit?
They spread The Hobbit out into three movies and banked $2.5B
And thats a movie based on a legendary book. Hell yeah it made that much. Now turn around and say, "hey, bud. You know the split-personality leper following the protagonist? Ever wanted to be him?" Fuck, no. And it was never advertised as anything more than that.
Wanna be Aragorn as a ranger? Galadriel in the second age? Elrond during the last alliance? Fuck you, here's Gollum.
I mean, I get it from one angle - Gollum is one of the longest lived characters in LOTR. The issue is that even being 500 years old, he doesn't really witness or interact with it all that much. Someone like Galadriel or Aragorn or Gandalf would be far more interesting.
Well, Smeagol is an interesting character because he is tragically relatable underneath it all. He was consumed by his greed, and completely lost his mind to it. His flashes of innocence and weakness make him at times sympathetic. But, then he reverts to Gollum and you see the consequences of his weakness, again and again.
That being said, being at times partially relatable does not make me want to be him, even in a video game. I think an interesting game where you play as Smeagol is absolutely possible, but that's an unnecessary uphill battle if I've ever seen one.
alleges publisher Nacon used AI tool ChatGPT to write the apology statement issued after Gollum’s failings became public
What? No way dude, totally fooled us, we absolutely couldn't tell!
Probably the least important of all these problems, but really, the publisher issuing a blanket chatGPT-generated apology, in the name of the studio without their knowledge, not even getting the name of the fucking game right.
Dude, maybe try to take your job a bit seriously?
Why start at exactly that point though?
Why even attempt AAA game with such a small budget/team size ratio?
It would have been a good game if they had cut the amount of developers and the scope of the game to fit the budget. I've recently tried smaller games like Dysmantle and they're great, why not even pixel/FF style Lord of the rings game? That would be awesome and cost less
Maybe having licensed such a big IP they aimed for the stars.
All this abuse to ship public haired Gollum.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
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