WingedKagouti on 18/2/2013 at 13:21
Quote Posted by faetal
I wonder how much of it was pre-orders.
I kinda hope it was a large majority.
CCCToad on 18/2/2013 at 15:00
I'm a bit surprised that PCGamer did not pull a Dragon Age 2 and call this the "game of the decade"
Muzman on 18/2/2013 at 17:04
Quote Posted by faetal
With forensic account auditing, you'd need a valid paper trail. Gone are the days where you could just produce a print-out saying "yeah, that was OTHER money". If ACM dev didn't have a cash injection commensurate with Sega's money, backed up by transactions within a period considered to be reasonably within the development cycle, then I can well imagine Sega having a good pop at legal action.
Sure, but this stuff goes on in construction all the time. Nobody seriously expects money given to not go into a pool available to a given 'builder' for all of their projects. Or hell, even rolled over and re-invested if there's nothing going on right now. It's just a matter of work being done to a given value before the next lot is released (and all that's negotiable all over again). Then there's all manner of potential overruns, supply problems, scheduling problems, breakages, insurance.
It's not entirely clear if people are saying Gearbox took in the upfront and just farmed out to cheaper developers and kept the difference, or just delayed their ACM spend. If the costs add up equal, I doubt there's much Sega can say (although there could be some line in the contract I guess. It just really doesn't seem like how people think of money these days). I mean this thing was in development for seven years. Those contracts got rewritten a lot. This is back at Borderlands 1 as well. Seems like it'd be hard for them to say now that all this time and negotiations went by and they didn't really know what was going on.
But eh, too many unknowns really. Also it's not like companies and people, many of whom are ostensibly friendly, aren't constantly suing each other over little things and usually settling. So I dunno.
faetal on 18/2/2013 at 21:59
I guess we'll see - the gaming press will be all over the stories if anything comes of it.
Dresden on 19/2/2013 at 04:53
Quote Posted by CCCToad
I'm a bit surprised that PCGamer did not pull a Dragon Age 2 and call this the "game of the decade"
Don't be silly. They don't get any ad revenue from Sega.
Briareos H on 19/2/2013 at 17:20
So I "got" the game to see what all the fuss was about. I'm about one third in and, although there are some extremely annoying gameplay decisions, it's a pleasant enough CoD-like. Sure it's a shitty linear shooter but right now I certainly can't say that it's worse than any of the recent Call of Honors. The unanimous jumping on the bashing bandwagon by the gaming press is nothing short of hypocritical. It looks pretty too, maybe a bit rough around certain edges but nothing deserving those "LOOKS LIKE A 2005 GAME" you see plastered about. Sheeple everywhere.
Rumour has it that the game gets abysmal by the end, though. We'll see.
Jason Moyer on 19/2/2013 at 17:41
I watched someone playing the PC version on max detail and I didn't really see what the big deal was, negativity wise. It didn't look amazing, but it seemed like a fairly standard shooter.
Phatose on 19/2/2013 at 17:42
You seen the comparison of demo vs reality videos?
Jason Moyer on 19/2/2013 at 17:50
No, but I also don't watch most pre-release videos because why the hell would you willingly subject yourself to marketing.
