potato_hamster on 13 May 2016
| CosmicSex said: The funny thing is that by all account, Fable Legends was Microsoft's vision as the team wanted to make the darker Fable 4... since Microsoft know so damn much about what appeals to gamers... and it failed. A massive fucking failure. So, this is just more reason to advocate developer agency. Publishers should at the very least believe in the product they are publishing and the ability of their developers to produce it. This actually has parallels to Konami and its alleged interference with development. Microsoft invested $75 million into their vision of Fable and if fucking failed. |
Developers have all the agency they want if they're footing the bills. You can't honestly expect publishers to hand developers millions of dollars without any control or oversight over the final product.
