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#1 CruciasNZ

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Posted 25 February 2013 - 10:49 PM

Gearbox took money intended for the development of Aliens: Colonial Marines and invested it in the development of Borderlands 2 and Duke Nukem Forever, claims an alleged Sega staffer.

The accusation was made on a blog called Sega Awakens, supposedly written by an employee of the publisher who uses the pen name Bryan Danielson. Destructoid also claims to have independently verified the information.

“Gearbox stole from SEGA, they robbed us, lied to us about the game, and tried to get another company to make the game instead,” wrote Danielson.

“Pitchford and Gearbox wanted to focus heavily on Duke Nukem Forever, but how would they get the money to hire some of the 3D Realms team and even buy the intellectual property? Sure, they made a lot from Borderlands, but guess where they got the money to fund Borderlands in the first place? Yup, SEGA.

“So Gearbox essentially lied to SEGA, mishandled funds, broke agreements and contractual obligations to work on other projects, didn’t want to work on a game they were contractually obligated to work on and gave it to another team, poor organization and direction on ACM, took on too many projects from different companies at once, and other things that we may not even know about. Hell, part of me believes that Gearbox wanted this thing delayed as much as possible so they can get more funding money to embezzle from SEGA.”

Danielson had harsh words for his alleged employer as well, saying that Sega should not have tried to recoup its losses by foisting the critical flop on gamers.

“I strongly believe that SEGA should not have released the game and made the fans pay for it,” he continued. “This game should have been cancelled permanently, and the final product is undeniable proof of it. Despite that, I believe SEGA wanted to try to get some of the money back, at the fans’ expense. SEGA should have also watched the project and development a lot better, because there was a lot of warning signs that said this was a disaster in the making.”


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Posted 25 February 2013 - 10:54 PM

yea i heard roah and steve talking about this....im not surprised it took "6 years" to make it and it came out a garbage nock off compared to what they were showing and what we expected.
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Posted 26 February 2013 - 09:24 AM

It explains alot to say the least.

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Posted 26 February 2013 - 09:56 AM

gearbox is officially on my shitlist, along with activision and infinity ward. they ruined a game that i was looking forward to for years.....dickheads.
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Posted 26 February 2013 - 05:53 PM

I'm so glad I only rented A:CM it is an absolute shit effort. A lot of the Blood Angels play it and yes it undeniably fun playing with your buddies, but you can do that with any game!

Absolute shit game compared to what I was expecting and I wish I could say I was surprised at the OP but truly I'm not.
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Posted 26 February 2013 - 07:47 PM

while I can understand that the game had a lot of flaws, I actually liked it and do enjoy playing it. That said it only cost me ten pounds, so it's not a major loss if I don't play it again. There are some undeniably fun elements to this game

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Posted 27 February 2013 - 08:08 AM

mmmm too bad i had to pick ACM or dead space im glad i buyed DS but part of me feels sad about ACM as many of you i was expecting alot more from it
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 11:50 PM

while I can understand that the game had a lot of flaws, I actually liked it and do enjoy playing it. That said it only cost me ten pounds, so it's not a major loss if I don't play it again. There are some undeniably fun elements to this game


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Posted 01 March 2013 - 11:46 PM

Yep, this proves it. I will never buy a game on premiere day again if the devs can be so manipulative and cheat with false demos.

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 11:04 AM

Poor show Gearbox, I expected better from you :(

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Posted 02 March 2013 - 11:38 AM

Seconded JC. Not sure how legit the source is though .

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