Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow'

Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Bethesda just kept them to their original contract and didn’t pay anything they weren’t required to. I mean, it would have been a nice “thank you” for almost meeting their goals. But they didn’t.

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The promised bonus was dependent on what rating the game got from Metacritic. If it got an 85 or better, they got the bonus. It got an 84 and specifically lost points due to the rampant bugs. BioWare was responsible for bug testing and QA according to the contract.

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    • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      it’s still an asshole move though, only a soulless corporation would ever clutch to the “well actually” of a single point of an average of reviews to deny a whole bonus

      even if they were cheeky like “oh you were one point short so the bonus will be 5% less than we promised haha” it’d have been better than a binary yes/no

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      • Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Or they really wanted it to be 90%+. Maybe the 85% was already giving them 5% leeway.

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  • BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    i believe it was sawyer who said he blames himself for that because he did not pivot the team to work on bug fixing until it was way too late

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• moakley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Doesn’t sound like they’ll necessarily be honest about the situation either then.

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