Duke just a big Cash-in

[Zechnophobe]

It is hard to not look at the outside evidence and wonder.

Here we have Gearbox, a company with a pretty good development team
There we have Duke Nukem Forever, a game that has incredible advertisement potential, but it a huge mess otherwise.

Is it that hard to imagine that putting out DNF was anything more than a money grab based on marketability? Even if the game bombs in reviews (And it has) people still bought the living heck out of it.

And further more, the actual amount of development time spent on it, was likely substantially less than a similar quality game, because a lot had already been done.

Lower cost, higher sell value = easy money in the bank.

 

[GuiltyDark]

It's clear to me that Duke was a pretty big cash grab. I played a friends copy, and that was enough to tell me it wasn't worth my money. But I thought the interest had waned sufficiently as to make the release evoke any enthusiasm, anyway.

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

Meh, Gearbox did the same thing that Activision does every year. Use name recognition to sell a sub-par game by the millions. It's pretty much common practice now. But Duke at least wasn't the originator of it.

Fixed that there for you, as it's always been a cycle of IW > Treyarch > IW > etc.

I just find it rather funny that Gearbox is getting all of the flak here since they pretty much took on the project at around 80% of the way through it and just finished it to get it done. Now, the new Brothers in Arms, fuck that shit.

 

[Triforceformer]

If it is a cash grab, then it's a damn good cash grab. Everything after the "Titty City" dream sequence is Grade A awesome in my experience so far.

 

[AyaReiko]

It was a cash grab, but it isn't Gearbox's fault.

This is what is called an attempt to re-coup what was spent at making the thing. T2I/2K tossed a lot of money at 3D Realms getting DNF done. Now they just want something back for it all.

Also DNF is 90% 3DR, 10% Gearbox. If you want to blame someone, blame George.

 

[scnj]

If they hadn't released it, people would be complaining that it still hasn't been released. Now they've released it, people are complaining that it's a cash grab. Yes the game is shitty, but there was very little they could do about it at this stage without basically starting from scratch. So much money has been thrown at this over the years, I'd be willing to bet that they could only get 2K's okay with a very limited budget for bug fixing and getting it out the door. I'd be very surprised if Gearbox contributed anything beyond limited assets for it.