Game News Bad News: Chaos Chronicles development on hold due to legal trouble with bitComposer

[Cynic]

I too found that very odd, but I don't see how it would be relevant. Sure, everyone here shits on bitcomposer here, but I doubt it has anything to do with the current situation.

I still have no idea why they didn't run their own forums, though. It even makes the Codex seem a little tacky.

Well, hosting your forums at a place as...how shall we say..."open minded" as the Codex could be seen as very bad for a corporate company (shitcomposer). If they are funding the game, and the game is hosted on a forum where, at times, fairly extreme views are given, it could be seen that they support those views. I'm not saying that this is what has happened but it's really not outside the realm of possibility that alongside the tax payer funds the game got, hosting the forums at a place which openly spouts catch phrases like "jewgold" and "niggers gonna nig" may not have been the brightest idea.

 

[toro]

Perhaps. But they could completely move the forum in less than a week. And we could keep the secret

 

[Mysterious Stranger]

It seems rather unlikely to me that the hosting of the forums at rpgcodex and the 'legal troubles/development stop' are interwinded, as the the only sections that are really filled with the offensive behaviour are non-gaming related. It's most likely a money/project management issue that caused it, but we can't be sure and might probably never know. Let's just blame Capitalism and incompetence, can't go wrong with that, right? Ahh well, I still have some hope left that the game could get released. Maybe. It probably won't. But it might... Fuck this shit

 

[Cynic]

I wasn't really serious.

 

[Metro]

So... Kickstarter incoming?

Depends on the contract they signed.

 

[Haba]

The silence is painful. But I guess one does get used to the disappointment, eventually.

 

[Jack Dandy]

He said we should know in a week or two. Hoping for the best..

 

[Burning Bridges]

I wouldn't hold my breath. This things smells of death right now.

 

[Burning Bridges]

It seems rather unlikely to me that the hosting of the forums at rpgcodex and the 'legal troubles/development stop' are interwinded, as the the only sections that are really filled with the offensive behaviour are non-gaming related.

It's certainly not the reason, but my gut feeling is that neither did Coreplay ask bitcomposer nor did they think about the consequences. If someone at bitcomposer already held a grudge against the project, they were handing it on a silver platter.

My feeling is also that Coreplay were simply too bro both in public relations and adding better features. IIRC they eventually added co-operative multiplayer to the list, amidst many other things that were easier said than done. All this with expected sales at best a bit above average. Such an ambitious game could never go through with publishers in 2013, and it's a miracle they got this far.

 

[Ramireza]

Well, until now the Game is still listed on the Bitcomposer Website. Lets try to be a little more optimistic

http://www.bitcomposer.com/www_en/game.aspx?gameid=9eb04117-cc1f-4d80-b095-c59a62a79c4a

 

[Haba]

 

[Ramireza]

No Skyrim, no Mass Effect? Pfff... n00bs.

 

[Anac'raxus]

No Skyrim, no Mass Effect? Pfff... n00bs.

 

[AbounI]

It seems rather unlikely to me that the hosting of the forums at rpgcodex and the 'legal troubles/development stop' are interwinded, as the the only sections that are really filled with the offensive behaviour are non-gaming related.

It's certainly not the reason, but my gut feeling is that neither did Coreplay ask bitcomposer nor did they think about the consequences. If someone at bitcomposer already held a grudge against the project, they were handing it on a silver platter.

My feeling is also that Coreplay were simply too bro both in public relations and adding better features. IIRC they eventually added co-operative multiplayer to the list, amidst many other things that were easier said than done. All this with expected sales at best a bit above average. Such an ambitious game could never go through with publishers in 2013, and it's a miracle they got this far.

They choose to cancel the multi feature longtime ago

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

No worries dudes and dudettes, we began hosting their forums in April, months after bitcomposer pulled the plug and stopped payments. It's not the Codex' fault, promise.

 

[ikarinokami]

This sounds like the perfect job for kickstarter

 

[evdk]

This sounds like the perfect job for kickstarter

They either don't own the code or the ownership is up in the air. SOunds like a perfect way to get sued to hell.

No worries dudes and dudettes, we began hosting their forums in April, months after bitcomposer pulled the plug and stopped payments. It's not the Codex' fault, promise.

So we can't take credit for this to scare other devs? Pity.

 

[Burning Bridges]

One can only hope there is a way to extricate the code from bitcomposer.
After all there is money from a public German fund involved and perhaps bitcomposer doesn't want to lose face and lose such sources of income. Perhaps.

 

[Kz3r0]

So bitComposer is like Uwe Boll?

 

[Jashiin]

If bitcomposer decide to fund it or allow a preorder/kickstarter so it can be finished and finished properly, I'll even give them money to show my support for coreplay.

 

[HiddenX]

No worries dudes and dudettes, we began hosting their forums in April, months after bitcomposer pulled the plug and stopped payments. It's not the Codex' fault, promise.

He who excuses, accuses himself.
And it goes without saying that the Codex is always guilty.

 

[Crispy]

Wow, PhantasiE and Wizard's Crown. Great memories, I think I was seventeen.

These guys deserve another shot at this.

 

[Excidium]

This sounds like the perfect job for kickstarter

They either don't own the code or the ownership is up in the air. SOunds like a perfect way to get sued to hell.

Or maybe a kickstarter with bitcomposer support. Maybe this is all a clever marketing ruse. Development stopped around the same time FullControl got the Jagged Alliance license from bitcomposer for their kickstarter. :tinfoilhat:

 

[Metro]

No Skyrim, no Mass Effect? Pfff... n00bs.

True bros took their characters through Hillsfar after Pool and before Curse -- you got some hp buff!

 

[Stabwound]

All in all, this is bad news all around. I should have known this game was too good to be true.

No worries dudes and dudettes, we began hosting their forums in April, months after bitcomposer pulled the plug and stopped payments. It's not the Codex' fault, promise.

If they pulled the plug on the game before April, that sounds even worse than I thought. It would be nice to at least get an indication of whether this game is dead in the water or has hope yet.