S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in trouble?

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List me amongst the people not in the least surprised here.<blockquote>Information about THQ being not satisfied with the situation that developed inside GSC had already reached us before. "They (THQ) didn't even imagine what it's like to work with GSC, - shares with us one of the former members of the company - they didn't even understand who they dealt with. STALKER always was in the state of general design. It's always been a project which was more spoken of than really done."

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The third source has information that a brand new engine not based on X-ray technology was in the works inside GSC, which could have been used to power renovated STALKER. Almost all of the team left the studio taking the technology created in a few months with them. GSC representatives consider this fact as theft, but former employees refer to "special circumstances". One of the members of the GSC team assumes that STALKER could be taken away along with the source code by the THQ representatives and handed to another team for work on the project. We attempted to contact GSC representatives but failed to receive an answer. THQ representatives commented on the issue drily: "No comments".

Update: Some of the developers revealed that a few months ago THQ seeked a studio ready to finish STALKER. One of the GSC programmers said that this is very unlikely: "The code is mostly not documented, they wouldn't understand a thing there."</blockquote>Long story short; THQ thinks it's taking too long and I can't really blame them, so they're taking it away for a bug-filled premature release.

Link: article on GGMania
Link: original article (Russian) on gamemag.ru

Thanks mortiz, st0lve and someone anonymous for the news and DaC for the Russian link.
 
Kharn said:
"The code is mostly not documented, they wouldn't understand a thing there."
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With developers who have that kind of attitude to programming, it's no wonder the game will never see the light of the day.
 
Ratty said:
With developers who have that kind of attitude to programming, it's no wonder the game will never see the light of the day.
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Indeed, I didn't know whether to cry, or cry out loud.
 
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
Yeah, well, I'll believe STALKER is not vaporware when I see it's final credits rolling across my screen...
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Same.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. had me excited at one time but I find it difficult to believe that after six months of nothing from this game that thing’s are still looking rosy. I’m inclined to think that the game will come out but whether it'll have been gimped to an unrecognizable shadow of what was promised nearly a year ago we'll have to see.
 
I would be interested if I were concerned for it's welfare.

Also,

I would be concerned if I was interested in the product.
 
It's gonna be renamed O.A.K.L.A.N.D. & included w/your preordered BitBoysOy! &/or Phantom Console.
 
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