Re: What Video game did you last play?
Announced in April 1997, Duke Nukem Forever will have been in development for 14 years by the time it is released. It will only have been in development by Gearbox for about 9 months. Once they finally got it away from 3D Realms, it took Gearbox less than a year to polish up and release what 3D Realms already had. 3D Realms founders self financed the game to the tune of ~$20 million, and settled multiple lawsuits with their publisher, Take Two Interactive, over failure to deliver the game. Gearbox by most accounts has less than $2 million wrapped up in securing the rights to the game and finishing it but stands to receive ALL of the money the game brings in, as both 3D Realms and Take Two interactive surrendered any financial connection to the game. Even if it sells badly they will easily make that back and then some. The real bad part of all of this is that many of the folks who worked on the game for 3D Realms over the years had deferred salary wrapped up in the release of the game that they will not get as a result of the lawsuits and settlements, and the ultimate sale of the entire game. The head honchos at Gearbox who received everything in connection to the game said that when they looked through it all, the game was within a month or two of release 4 or 5 times during the 13 years, only to be scrapped at the 11th hour. No wonder Take Two sued them.
Announced in April 1997, Duke Nukem Forever will have been in development for 14 years by the time it is released. It will only have been in development by Gearbox for about 9 months. Once they finally got it away from 3D Realms, it took Gearbox less than a year to polish up and release what 3D Realms already had. 3D Realms founders self financed the game to the tune of ~$20 million, and settled multiple lawsuits with their publisher, Take Two Interactive, over failure to deliver the game. Gearbox by most accounts has less than $2 million wrapped up in securing the rights to the game and finishing it but stands to receive ALL of the money the game brings in, as both 3D Realms and Take Two interactive surrendered any financial connection to the game. Even if it sells badly they will easily make that back and then some. The real bad part of all of this is that many of the folks who worked on the game for 3D Realms over the years had deferred salary wrapped up in the release of the game that they will not get as a result of the lawsuits and settlements, and the ultimate sale of the entire game. The head honchos at Gearbox who received everything in connection to the game said that when they looked through it all, the game was within a month or two of release 4 or 5 times during the 13 years, only to be scrapped at the 11th hour. No wonder Take Two sued them.
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