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I blame feminists.



                
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arcaneguyver said:
hershel_layton said:
Wait, there was a good ghostbusters game???

Wow. Never thought that was possible

 

The 7th gen Ghostbusters game and 'The New Ghostbusters 2' NES game (JP/EU only) were good.

The Genesis Ghostbusters was good too wasn't it? I think I read that somewhere.



WagnerPaiva said:
That game looks really cheap, I am surprise it drove a company into such a position. Maybe they were already going south anyways

Fireforge has started and stopped production on at least two MOBA-like projects over the past five years. One of those games, code-named Zeus, was due to be published by the hardware company Razer. The other game, code-named Atlas, was funded by the Chinese publisher Tencent, which also owns a 37% stake in Fireforge.

Filings show that Fireforge owes around $11.3 million to Tencent. In addition, the now-bankrupt studio has been entangled in a lawsuit with a Singapore-based private company called Min Productions, owned by Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan.

Tan alleges that Fireforge failed to deliver on their contract while developing Zeus, and instead used the money to work on Atlas with Tencent. Fireforge, on the other hand, says they only started working on Atlas once Razer had stopped paying them. The lawsuit is currently on hold as Fireforge sorts out their bankruptcy proceedings.

On top of that, lawyer Richard Land—who was the “receiver” responsible for selling the games and IP of 38 Studios following that company’s closure—sued Fireforge in 2015. Land claims that Fireforge signed a deal to license 38 Studios’ proprietary social media platform Helios for $3.7 million, then reneged and instead hired several ex-38 Studios employees to build their own version.

http://kotaku.com/ghostbusters-developer-fireforge-games-goes-bankrupt-1784625739



On a related note, funny video on the movie itself

https://youtu.be/UWROBiX1eSc



KLAMarine said:

On a related note, funny video on the movie itself

https://youtu.be/UWROBiX1eSc

Could I ask is it pro / against the movie and is it about the movie or about the fan reaction to the movie? Just that it is a fairly click bait subject right now and I don't want to give my fraction of a cent worth of advertising clicks to something which is calling people who don't want to watch the movie idiots or something like that if you get me?



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AZWification said:

I blame feminists.

too few female gamers? that support games like this.



That shocking look on my face you'll never see



Another movie tie-in flop? Oh how surprising! 99% of them are bad, so this isn't a surprise. Shocked to see how they could've forced themselves into bankruptcy because of this game.



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lol! Why don't people get it? A polished turd is still a polished turd. They should have made a mobile game instead. It probably would have cost less and made more money.



Ganoncrotch said:
KLAMarine said:

On a related note, funny video on the movie itself

https://youtu.be/UWROBiX1eSc

Could I ask is it pro / against the movie and is it about the movie or about the fan reaction to the movie? Just that it is a fairly click bait subject right now and I don't want to give my fraction of a cent worth of advertising clicks to something which is calling people who don't want to watch the movie idiots or something like that if you get me?

It's against the movie.