Silentstorm
Learned
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2019
- Messages
- 885
And the award for most dissapointing RPG in the last few years goes to...Underworld Ascendant, for falling short of everyone's expectations and wishes for Ultima Underworld 3!
The good news is capitalism works. You make sh*t. People don't buy your sh*t. Your investors walk away. Your firm goes bankrupt.
August at the latest. Probably earlier.
If Capitalism works, explain Call of Duty.
Yes, their certificate expired yesterday (period is from "Monday, March 26, 2018" to "Saturday, May 25, 2019"). Someone forgot to get a new one.
noWait, what happened now, does this mean they lost the right to host their own site?
someone forgot to update a certIf so...wow, otherwise, can someone please explain?
Well the explanation was they thought they were going to have more money than what the Kickstarter raised, but they didn't, because that funding got pulled almost immediately. At this point, they probably should have just cancelled the game.
Instead, they apparently muddled around for a couple of years, not doing much of anything until the game got a publisher. Then the publisher said, "take that pile of trash and cobble it together into something we can sell." And Underworld Ascendant was released!
Well the explanation was they thought they were going to have more money than what the Kickstarter raised, but they didn't, because that funding got pulled almost immediately. At this point, they probably should have just cancelled the game.
Instead, they apparently muddled around for a couple of years, not doing much of anything until the game got a publisher. Then the publisher said, "take that pile of trash and cobble it together into something we can sell." And Underworld Ascendant was released!
It's actually fascinating that they managed to persuade 505 to publish UA. I'd really want to know what their sales pitch was.
When 505 made the publishing deal, the situation was the following:
- OS had burned through all their kickstarter money
- Their first publisher opted out
...
The top OS guys have to be grandmaster-level con artists to sell that deal.
CONSOLE PRIORITY. Still aiming to have this wrapped up by the end of this month [...] I’m working on gathering updated footage for a potential console trailer [...] hopefully exporting the whole thing by end of next week, right before we need all our console materials submitted. [...] In addition to this, I’ll be [...] coordinating our physical Kickstarter rewards so we can start shipping things out by early June. Note that this timeline for the physical goods are (sic) tentative
https://forums.otherside-e.com/t/may-20-2019-weekly-update/10071
So much shit apparently went wrong, they'd need another kickstarter just to get funds to write/record it all down.At this point someone should just make a post detailing everything that went wrong with the game before release and after, but i fear it would be so long even the most patient and interested people here would have no choice but to post TL:DR.