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Posted Tuesday 19th May 2009 04:39 GMT
As incompetent as they clearly were at developing games (in 12 years they could have had 3 or 4 Duke games released by now, each one good for the day) they surpassed that incompetence with their clear lack of business acumen here.
"We're out of cash and completely stuffed if you don't give us this deal" is not negotiating Scott, it's suicide. Especially after wasting $20 million and 12 years. It's laughable that you are happily saying all this, without actually realising what you are saying. Your website says you've heard every joke about the release. Thing is, it isn't funny when it comes to looking at from a business point of view. They don't have a sense of humour, they just see a monkey who is sitting in a Ferrari. The monkey isn't intelligent enough to know what to do with it.
You're making lots of chimp noises now to stop someone taking what you see as your toy, but the rest of us are looking in the cage wondering why you didn't go for the bananas they dangled, because you'll be shot in the arse and taken out the car anyway...and all you've done for the past 12 years is crap on the seats and pull the wipers off.
Similarly, telling them the progress of the game....and making progress on the game without funding in place was just dumb. As is this posturing about the case. 3DR have already made it clear they have no chance of winning.
As for the PR angle? Your "fans" want the game. So, the public court case is "someone who might complete DNF" v "someone who clearly hasn't a chance of doing it", you've lost that battle too.
What T2 did was just good business sense. Not bullies. They were never going to let 3DR waste their money as they have their own. Miller's cries of "we never got the money" make sense, who would give him money to develop it?
Clearly the only asset is the game, and it's worth more without Miller and co.
Miller should have saved his $20M, because it's the most money he's ever going to get from Duke Nukem. Better yet he should have accepted this deal, because it's the best one he'll see.
For fans of the game, their best hope is that they in or out of court and a team headed by competent management finishes the game (although, the character is clearly nothing more than a bunch of obvious stereotypes and cliches, developing a similar character with a different name would be trivial)
