Kotaku UK: How Fable Legends Took Down Lionhead

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lordsynbios said:

I know MS has a lot of money, but to spend $75m and have nothing to show for it, that's got to sting. Sucks to be Lionhead, being pushed in two directions by the same company, unrealistic expectations, and they're left looking like they're the ones who couldn't deliver.

"Minecraft is a big miss, versus projections."

I'd be very interested to see what projections they have for Minecraft, considering it just passed 100m in sales and seems to be doing as well as ever. I could only assume merchandising isn't performing as well, I know they splashed out a lot for the game, but to have bigger expectations in what is such a short amount of time seems incredibly unrealistic.

that is the part that really caught my attention.