Just because the game sucks, doesn't mean 3DR aren't entitled to their pay, assuming they have signed legal documents with Gearbox stating what they are claiming.
Duke Nukem Creator Sues Gearbox For Unpaid Royalties
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Duke Nukem actually made a profit
And Pritchford said back in 2012 that there would be a sequel
http://www.destructoid.com/take-two-there-will-be-more-duke-nukem-204247.phtml
Sure Forever was pants, but i for one enjoyed it (probably cause i bought it for a tenner and the laugh)
I'd check out a sequel... 3D Realms are probably killing that right now with this though
And Pritchford said back in 2012 that there would be a sequel
http://www.destructoid.com/take-two-there-will-be-more-duke-nukem-204247.phtml
Sure Forever was pants, but i for one enjoyed it (probably cause i bought it for a tenner and the laugh)
I'd check out a sequel... 3D Realms are probably killing that right now with this though
Duke Nukem Forever was shit, but if it were not for Gearbox, it would not have even been released (for better or worse). 3D Realms calling Gearbox cheats is like getting hate mail from Hitler: 3D Realms spent over a decade conning and swindling money by producing what was essentially vaporware to fund their fucking WoW addiction. I'm serious on that last one - they spent more time grinding in WoW than actually working on DNF.
Gearbox as of late has also been a dirty little pile of shit with the release of Aliens: Colonial Marines, but at least they were actually fucking competent enough to actually release the game instead of leading fans on and on for a decade or two.
Uh, to make this clearer: I see this as fight between a giant douche versus a shit sandwich. They're both bad, but the douche is at least useful for something.
If it wasn't apparent enough - I'm disappointed in Gearbox, but I have little to nothing else but pure vitrol for 3D Realms. Gearbox has my support (if it ever mattered), but only in the sense that I find 3D Realms undeserving of any reward or compensation.
Gearbox as of late has also been a dirty little pile of shit with the release of Aliens: Colonial Marines, but at least they were actually fucking competent enough to actually release the game instead of leading fans on and on for a decade or two.
Uh, to make this clearer: I see this as fight between a giant douche versus a shit sandwich. They're both bad, but the douche is at least useful for something.
If it wasn't apparent enough - I'm disappointed in Gearbox, but I have little to nothing else but pure vitrol for 3D Realms. Gearbox has my support (if it ever mattered), but only in the sense that I find 3D Realms undeserving of any reward or compensation.
This is exactly what really pissed me off, especially after playing Borderlands 2 I was expecting A:CM to be even better and had faith in GB but no we got the truth that they fucked us gamers and SEGA and the other parties over so their own two games could be made (Remember Borderlands original art style before they ripped it off?) and because of that they have earned my eternal hatred for ruining one of my favourite game movie franchises.RT said:
All I can say now is I'm happy someone else is stepping up to sue the shit out of them and I hope GB suffer for it.
Duke Nukem Forever was entirely self funded by 3DR (using the fortune they made off Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, Max Payne, and selling the Prey license) up until around '07 at which point we started hearing about the dev's financial troubles and the whole Gearbox thing started. I don't know where you get the kind of foundation to say they 'seriously' spent more time grinding than working on their game, because a single joke on the Jace Hall show doesn't count as consolidated fact.Chimichanga said:
DNF was not a great game, but if Gearbox signed a contract and didn't compensate 3DR to the degree that they agreed, and were legally obliged to, they are in the wrong. That is how the law works.
Well Gearbox, maybe that'll teach you to make a deal before you know how good the game is. It's not in the contract that you get to do whatever you want if DNF bombs, apparently, and maybe it should have been.
Well . . . assuming 3DR is telling the truth about Gearbox promising to pay for the debt and pay the royalties separately, 3DR would seem to be in the right, shitty of a deal as it is and shitty of a game as DNF was. Gearbox's lawyers should probably not have let them do it, but a deal is a deal.
That said, I take issue with this remark:
"3DR turned out to be the only beneficiary of the deal. Gearbox Software, meanwhile, experienced damage to its credibility and loss of its money."
So, let me get this right, Gearbox . . . you lost money because you made a bad deal and an even worse game, so that somehow reflects on how shit of a company 3DR is?
That said, I take issue with this remark:
"3DR turned out to be the only beneficiary of the deal. Gearbox Software, meanwhile, experienced damage to its credibility and loss of its money."
So, let me get this right, Gearbox . . . you lost money because you made a bad deal and an even worse game, so that somehow reflects on how shit of a company 3DR is?
