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Oddworld inhabitants quits making games

posted 19 years ago by DrMatta
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Moment i read that in a game magazine i felt shocked.
Reason: The last 2 Oddworld games flopped.
How can this happen you ask? Bad publishers i tells you.
EA for example; they can market their medal of honors SO much
we get fking tired of the DAMN ads.
Why does everyone buy the 10th installment of the FIFA and NFS series?
FIFA is the same everytime, with some updated stats!
They all get hyped and marketed ofcourse.
EA doesnt care about other developers.
Why market Oddworld? we make enough out of MOH and FIFA, we don't care.
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.

The Oddworld's are SO immersive and great, why dont they
get the attention they deserve? Why does EA not make it a BIT more clear
to the world there is a new Oddworld game with the BILLIONS they have?
Is this the fate of all great developers?

Damn EA and damn all the people who spend their money
on crappy games. Be happy with Medal of Honor #23.
Damn you!! Damn you all!!!!

[–] leonidasnoutsis 18 years ago

1)The lack of advertizing and promoting was due to the fact that the creators of the game, Lorne Lanning and Oddworld Inhabitants wouldn't sell the rights of their own creation to those cheapshots who only cared about money. Thus the companies wouldnt take the risk for something that wasnt owned by them. Some may blame OWI but i doubt any of those people would sell their children, why judge someone who denies to sell their own dreams?
2)Perhaps OWI quits making games but they do not quit oddworld. They just procede to their original plan. To make oddworld movies! It is official and it will have everything we want to know about oddworld. They will make the quintology that was planned. Or at least continue it. Are the games all you care about? There are tons of games but oddworld is where it belongs. With the people who really care about it.

[–] JayKlook 16 years ago

1.) The lack of advertising was due to the fact that OWI couldn't get the coding of Stranger to work for the PS2. This made EA nervous about the sales, so they didn't want to spend extra advertising. It wasn't because they wouldn't sell them their IP's. They had to leave Microsoft Studios because MS wanted to own the IP's. EA was the only company that said they would publish for them without needing the IP's.

2.) OWI has not quit making games, they had postponed to go into movies, which they claim is a lot easier of a business when it comes to keeping your IP's. They are making Citizen Siege, which is not an Oddworld movie, it is set on Earth. As of recent interviews, they are making the movie with video game technology as well as making a game to come out along side it. This may sound bad, but they have said with the technology they are using it is easier to make a quality game at the same time as a quality movie.

3.) If Citizen Siege does well, then they will be able to go back to Oddworld. Their hopes are to finish the Quintology in the same fashion as CS, movie/game tandem. Also Lorne Lanning has stated he'd like to go back and make movies to go along with Abe and Munch's Oddysees.

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