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October 6th, 2008 @ 22:09
Speaking to Shacknews, Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski has said Gears of War will be better off away from PC, with the added focus of keeping the franchise as a console game making it stronger.
“We just believe that collectively we can laser-focus this franchise, keep it on console, and it will be stronger as a result,” he said. “I mean it’s just plain and simple. It’s not that I don’t like the PC, but we want to make an Xbox 360 game that kicks ass, plain and simple.”
The developer added that straight business sense was a driving factor in the decision to go 360-only with Gears 2.
“We’re a business and we’re going where the market is,” he said. “There’s a hundred guys at work, a number of which have wives and kids, and there’s a certain amount of responsibility to make sure that they can afford their Pedialyte and their Enfamil.
“And you know, we’re a business, and it makes sense for Gears to keep it on the 360 and have Microsoft market the hell out of it and make the best game that we can.
“I’ll always love the PC. That’s where our roots are, but, you know, companies evolve and their strategies sometimes shift, and that’s an unfortunate reality of business.”
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October 6th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
They did not even do Gears 1 for PC! I mean, they just give that job to newbies in Sofia studio and they done pretty well!
October 7th, 2008 at 6:41 am
It’s fairly entertaining though (in a bitterly ironic way) that they started out on the PC and everything they built and everything they are comes from a PC fan-base.
And this new attitude of theirs just feels like… well, is this knife yours? They saw which way the wind was blowing and to hell with any kind of loyalty to their previous fans, I suppose.
This has, in my mind at least, created a slippery, not-so-fun slalom slide of perception of them that goes from a paragon of development to a house of base money-baggery. Is money that much more important to him than dignity and remembering the roots of his company?
I liked you once, CliffyB. A long time ago, back when you had some self-respect.
Shame.
What’s happening to all these developers I used to look up to?