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Do you think their strange business model (hyping and promising the game for years without delivering; an opposite to release early philosophy) will work out in the end? Will people actually buy the game or simply satisfy their interest from reviews and videos?

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I will certainly buy the game. Those of us have been through the entire DNF emotional roller coaster just want something to show for it. A playable executable, if not the transcendental experience that was promised in 1996. Who knows, it might actually be fun! And you're getting the most famous video game ever created for $60. Given the kinds of forgettable dreck that also retails for sixty bucks, it's enough for me.

That wasn't their business model - it was a mistake that sent them bankrupt.

This is a new studio who took over development.

ArsTechnica has the complete - and quite incredible - story: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/09/the-death-and-reb...

Note that the company originally developing DNF has gone under, if I understand correctly. So I don't think it worked very well... ;-)

I doubt there was a business model that stated that. It's the very common problem of to munch money and far to much hype. Half of their time is spent living up to the hype - 2+ engines switches! - and the other half spending their cash on frivolous resources. It's Daikatana all over again.

But I'm still going to play it.

It's interesting to note that Diakatana took 3 years to develop (which is not considered extremely uncommon these days) and supposedly made enough money to cover its development costs.

Which is amazing since that was an absolutely wretched game.

I'm not! When development started I was in high school. Now I'm married with children working at a startup.

It's not that I don't want to play it, but there's just no time. The target audience outgrew the game during development.

But that's why we have to play it. Think of it as a time capsule made just for us!

That's why I played Doom 3, and realized that was made Doom great was the visceral action much more than the theme. Just the feel of running around at literally 100 MPH and mowing down thousands of enemies. Once we left the sprite era, that kind of gameplay died and they tried to replace it with hyper-realism and atmosphere. However good gameplay has nothing to do with realism, it also doesn't really have anything to do with hookers. I don't have high hopes for the Duke in 2011.

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