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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Obsidian on why their Microsoft published XB1 RPG Stormlands got cancelled

"It comes down to budget and it comes down to having a champion [at Microsoft]," Urquhart said on the latest episode of our monthly interview show IGN Unfiltered. "I can see games that had champions and weren't canceled until $80 million were spent.... There's games that had a $10 million budget and had a champion and ended up the budget was $60 million and it shipped."

Urquhart went on to explain that when you're making a big-budget game, "there has to be someone at the publisher" who can defend the project and assure the higher-ups the game is going to be good. In the case of Stormlands, unfortunately, Obsidian didn't have someone like that to champion the game at Microsoft.


"There has to be someone with that attitude and the ability to defend the game," he added, using Baldur's Gate as an example of how important it was for them to have someone to champion the game at Interplay when poor European sales forecasts were going to negatively impact its success in American markets. "For a game to truly be big, it often has to be pushed and it has to have ads and PR," he explained.

Urquhart concluded by saying: "Why did Stormwinds get canceled? Stomwinds got canceled because we didn't have an advocate."

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This if the first time I hear about this game



Seems like none of their first party games has any advocates lately.



Never heard of Stormlands before. Shame though, I like Obsidian a lot



bananaking21 said:
This if the first time I hear about this game

 

Angelus said:
Never heard of Stormlands before. Shame though, I like Obsidian a lot

This cancellation almost killed Obsidian, they had to lay off staff and go to kickstarter to stay alive.



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Microsoft : "so why should we hand you a bag of money to make this game?"
Obsidian : "we dont know anymore"

Microsoft : "funds are cut"



Im fine with this. Why waste money on a project people dont believe in?



I had never heard of this game. When was it cancelled?



Trunkin said:
I had never heard of this game. When was it cancelled?

Early 2012



Turkish said:
bananaking21 said:
This if the first time I hear about this game

 

Angelus said:
Never heard of Stormlands before. Shame though, I like Obsidian a lot

This cancellation almost killed Obsidian, they had to lay off staff and go to kickstarter to stay alive.

Wow. That's sad to hear



JRPGfan said:

Microsoft : "so why should we hand you a bag of money to make this game?"
Obsidian : "we dont know anymore"

Microsoft : "funds are cut"



Im fine with this. Why waste money on a project people dont believe in?

Where did you get that from?  That's not what this article is saying, did it come from somewhere else?