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Companies such as Blizzard and Valve are rightly applauded for ensuring the quality of their games by delaying or cancelling them as necessary. For years I've b

Companies such as Blizzard and Valve are rightly applauded for ensuring the quality of their games by delaying or cancelling them as necessary. For years I've been defending 3D Realms, saying that the situation with DNF was no different: it's not a game that has been in development for 13 years. It's two cancelled games and another that has been in development for five years. Perhaps they were doing the right thing but have been terribly unlucky somehow. Perhaps they were simply perfectionists, doomed never to be satisfied and fooling themselves into thinking that starting again would fix everything. Perhaps they played WoW all day, in denial about their rapidly depleting funds. Any one of these scenarios seems possible. I hope we find out in the coming days and weeks just what went wrong over there.

froo 17y ago
Companies such as Blizzard and Valve are rightly applauded for ensuring the quality of their games by delaying or cancelling them as necessary. People also seem to conveniently forget that Vivendi Universal were actively trying to offload Blizzard a year or two prior to the release of WOW, because the studio was hemorrhaging money as a result of this philosophy. It's a good way to be when you're continually producing titles that knock people's socks off - which 3D Realms weren't. You can defend many things, but the fact is, they cocked it up in a big way. There's no defence against poor performance.