Games That Burried Their Dev Teams
Video games can be a real bonanza, or spectacular flops. Some of them fail so badly, though, that they bring doom to entire dev teams. Here are 13 such cases.
Table of Contents
- Games That Burried Their Dev Teams
- Need for Speed: The Run
- Mafia 3
- The original Diablo 3
- LawBreakers and Radical Heights
- Gigantic
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
- L.A. Noire in our encyclopedia
- Fable Legends
- WildStar
- Might & Magic: Heroes 6
- Halo Wars
- Project Copernicus
WildStar
Reality is often ironic. Carbine Studios had the audacity to outright call their own MMORPG the World of Warcraft killer. Admittedly, some of us believed this slogan, and secretly even kept fingers crossed for the game. However, it quickly turned out that WildStar is not able to stand up to Blizzard's work.
The studio was bought by NCsoft before its premiere and Wildstar was released under the banner in 2014. The title begun in a subscription model, but a little over a year after its release, the decision was made to switch to free-to-play. It turned out that there was a shortage of players willing to take on the unbalanced challenges of the game. However, this transformation also didn't achieve much in the way of making the game more popular.
In November 2018, WildStar was officially closed by NCsoft, and Carbine Studios disbanded. Over time, the developers revealed that their MMORPG was supposed to be completely different, but the concept was curbed by the publisher. Who knows, maybe it would actually be a WoW killer if things went otherwise? We may wonder...
