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Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
I gotta agree, I don't think Sean Murray and his team had any insidious intentions. Who in their right mind would willingly risk their career and likely forever be shunned by the industry just like that? Big developers and especially publishers can get away with pulling wool over their fans' eyes, but someone pretty new on the scene with so much more to lose? It's more likely that he wanted the game to be so much, and all the promises he made were intended to be actualized, while riding the high of the hype that exploded overnight. But somewhere along the way they ran out of time and money and had to release a "finished" product. It simply reeks of inexperience, horrible pr and bad planning. Sort of like that dude who wants to get into game design, promises to make a huge conversion mod to some game, or draws hundreds of concept art pieces for his big ambitious game, but soon realizes it's actually a lot harder to do than he thought.
That said, I'm still not defending anyone and not trying to make excuses. It's simply how I could imagine that things went down. The whole thing is still deserving of all the flak, and the concepts of pre-ordering, hype, medias role in the hype, the developers and publishers roles in the hype, etc are all in need of some serious scrutiny and discussion. But I don't think it's as easy as evil people trying to rob others of their money. No matter the actual quality of the game, you can't deny that it's an inspired project with some ambitious goals. There would have been much easier ways to rake in money in the gaming industry.
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