Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium on Metacritic for PC all time best: both #1 sitting with 97. Half Life (two) finally THIRD!
Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium on Metacritic for PC all time best: both #1 sitting with 97. Half Life (two) finally THIRD!
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A minute of silence for the DE designer, writer, artist and devs that were discarded after the game got popular. đ
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Yep...that entire situation is so crappy. The devs deserved better.
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I mean yeah, I feel bad but he was kinda hard to work with and other devs didnât like him but what the company did was scummy.
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What is DE designer and what did I miss about them being discarded?
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Classic gaming industry IP theft. Investors underhandedly forced the founders/developers out of their own company and stole the IP.
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How do you "steal" an IP?
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Guy comes into the company and uses illegal, fraudulent methods to take it over. He then demoted the co-owners (and founders) to mere "employees" so they could be fired. The plan was to then sell the company to a big publisher and walk away with all the money.
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Ok... But I still not quite get how you take the company over with il¡legal, fraudulent methods.
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There's a bunch of articles and videos that go over how it happened. It's not too different from what happened to Interplay back in the day. Here's one overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Xu4GvpN9U
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Bought the company/ip then didnât keep original owners on
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Ironic
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Thanks for saying it. I was going to bring it up, but I wasn't clear on all the details.
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