"Duke Nukem Forever": Take 2 verspricht Entwickler

[Duncan]

Spiele-Publisher Take 2 hat den Entwicklern des Spiels "Duke Nukem Forever" eine Prämie von 500.000 US-Dollar versprochen, wenn das Spiel noch in diesem Jahr erscheinen sollte. Dies steht in einem Finanzbericht an die Security and Exchange Commission.

Der Vertrag zwischen Take 2 und den Entwicklern von 3DRealms ist auch geändert worden. Das Studio erhält nun nicht die 1997 vorgesehenen sechs Millionen US-Dollar sondern 4,25 Millionen US-Dollar.

www.PCGames.de

Ob das so gut ist, ich weiss ja nicht ...

 

[Schmedi]

das spiel wird eh nie erscheinen, das is doch die Mutter der Please-Release Spiele.

 

[Moses]

Naja, Bilder zum Spiel gibts ja..auch wenn sie schon Stein alt sind

 

[Pappnase]

Die sollen das Spiel einfach fürn DS umschreiben. Dann sieht die Grafik auch wieder passabel aus...

 

[AllesBa$h0r]

Folgendes hat Gourge Broussard zu dieser "News" zu sagen:

Neither of those is/was true, to my knowledge. So, yeah.

Our deal is simple. We're making the game. It'll be done when it's done. We've funded 99.999% of the game (aside from a very, very small advance from GT Interactive, years ago, before Take 2 bought the game from them). It's our risk, our necks and our gamble. Under the deal we should be earing royalties from about unit 30,000 or so (that's a real small number), so yeah...

As for the 500k completion bonus, I don't even know were that came from. Scott would know, but I do know that we never cared or asked for it, and I think it was just tossed in as part of some other agreement. We're certainly not motivated by that amount of money, after all this time, and getting the game right is what matters. I would never ship a game early (even a couple of months), for 500k.

It's just very odd to read all this and see facts tossed around, that as far as I know, are completely wrong (at least as stated or interpreted above). Maybe it all traces back to the original Gamespot article getting things wrong, or interpreting them wrong (and every other site copy/pasting the news with no attempt to verify), or Take 2's report languge being vague at best. Game journalism is actually pretty annoying in the copy/paste regard.

http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18360

When it's done, suckers ... when it's done.