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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum developer to close after disastrous launch (www.polygon.com)

submitted 1 year ago by mint to c/gaming

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[–] ProfessorGrizzly@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Stray pulled off AAA quality on a tiny budget using something loved by a lot of people (cat protagonist) but it had a number of advantages, primarily you don't need licensing fees for cats, the dev time was deep into "purely a labor of love" length, and I don't think it came out near any releases of a superior direct competitor. Any adventure epic right now had to contend with FF16 and people still messing around with Tears of the Kingdom.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I think licencing agreements are the death of many games. I maintain that the failure of Cyberpunk 2077 was primarily due to their involvement with Keanu Reeves and I need to bring in revenue to satisfy his Hollywood contract.