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Aliens: Colonial Marines was a highly anticipated game a couple of years back. It had an amazing E3 demo that fooled press and fans alike with an impressive vertical slice of the game that turned out to be nothing like the final product. As you would imagine, fans were upset after having been mislead on numerous occasions and proceeded to file a lawsuit against Sega and Gearbox Software.
After a while, Gearbox Software was dropped from the lawsuit, while Sega managed to settle for $1.25 million. However, Gearbox CEO, Randy Pitchford, has not been quiet when it comes to his opinion of the lawsuit. Speaking with GamesIndustry International, Pitchford claimed that the suit was “a huge waste of time” and went on to say that fans involved were using “mafia style extortion tactics”.
Despite the false advertising and blatant misleading that occurred with Aliens: Colonial Marines, Pitchford is under the impression that ‘the market' should judge products and not the legal system: “The market proved it was doing its job perfectly. The market is dispassionate — rewarding what it likes and punishing what it doesn't. There is an objectivity and fairness in the open market's harsh, firm justice.”
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KitGuru Says: Aliens: Colonial Marines was one of the most high-profile disappointments in recent years so it's no wonder fans were mad when it launched. Unfortunately, it seems Gearbox is never going to admit that it did wrong while developing that game.
Translation we spent the monies to scam you and we didn’t get enough out of the game so we blame you. Yep what a wonderful little industry we have when companies can lye, scam, cheat you of your money through false advertising, cut content, and so on.
sure, when a product is fairly and properly marketed in the first place. aliens CM presented itself as much more then it was through trailers, presentations, and advertizements.
While I don’t agree with the method I can understand when “pre alpha” footage looks better than the final product. While in development they can put all the bells and whistles in then take them out when it comes to benchmarking to ensure the game runs smoothly and without too many graphical errors caused by the graphics pipeline and for some games, although it’s a disappointment, can be excused from it which I think is the situation Watch Dogs was in.
In this case however it was more than that. They not only took out sexy visual effects but also heavily reduced texture resolutions and even got rid of entire cutscenes among many other things which I just don’t see a justification or point for, leading me to believe that for whatever reason they had they downgraded the game on purpose. I mean the work had already been done in terms of cutscenes and it’s not like they cause problems in performance so I think they deserved all they got.
thank goodness 20th century fox helped sega with alien isolation ,i think it made up of the loss of previous game and happy to knoe that gearbox was not involved in the making of it and im sure the next game will be as good as alien isolation just as long 20th century fox gives them the tools to do it
You know when someone sleeps with someone else behind their partner’s back and instead of coming clean, or at least keeping quiet but feeling guilty and wretched inside, they convince themselves that it’s all their partner’s fault so they can feel validated as a ‘moral’ person and justify their actions, then start being moody and accusatory toward the partner they betrayed? See the similarities?
So he thinks lying to people and take their money is okay… well fuck you Randy
some people should really get a life, suing companies for a f…ng game, really? that’s why there are reviews to read then and then into account. wtf, suing a company for a game, pathetic loosers…some people in some countries are too bored to be preoccupied with such small things like this :/
Oh suck it up you whinny little bitch. In any other industry if you sell a defective product under false pretences then you get sued, why should games be any different?
do you know what irony is?
It really does make you worry about humanity sometimes, lol…
these are games for children to play with, plus the fact that nobody is forcing you to buy. nobody should be that naive to pre-order a product without knowing how it will behave. use the damn reviews!
you don’t get it… they showed gameplay, gameplay people liked. if you see something you like you’ll buy it, right? imagine seeing a piece of blue clothing on a catalog and ordering it and then the product that gets delivered to you is red, wouldn’t you be mad you got scammed? wouldn’t you want your money back?
Or Batman Arkham Knight on PC. Broken a shit
i say again, read the reviews!
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Third party reviews don’t matter, the company still doesn’t get to lie.
When the amazing E3 Aliens demo was released, everybody went banana because it is exactly what players wanted. The final version was like a freaking beta before the demo. It was a joke then.
AngryJoe explained it perfectly.
http://angryjoeshow.com/2013/02/aliens-cm-angry-review/
apart from the obvious company scam problems we are facing these days, there is also the problem of a select group hiding among the regular costumers who generally just love being screwed over numerous times, which systematically seems to throw the quality of our gaming industry in disarray and chaos.
My point being; How the hell can we expect a healthy gaming market, when people seem to omni-forgive all the horrors thrown at them?
Haha. Oh wait you’re serious are you.
if you don’t see the ridiculous of the situation i’m verry sorry, they’re just games, nothing more, there are more important things in life…but you know better
Well i respect your opinion that there are better things in life, I just will not take it as a valid excuse for such situations.