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by Alice O'Connor, Apr 10, 2012 6:00pm PDTA sequel to delightfully silly and sweary shooter Bulletstorm had once been in the works, Epic Games has revealed, but sadly it wasn't to be. The project was cancelled, and co-developer People Can Fly was put to work on a mysterious new project. When life gives you dick-lemons, make dick-lemonade.
"We thought a lot about a sequel, and had done some initial development on it, but we found a project that we thought was a better fit for People Can Fly," Epic president Mike Capps said.
"We haven't announced that yet," he clarified to GameSpot. "But we will be announcing it pretty soon."
Commenting that he'd "love to go back" to it, Capps noted that sales weren't stellar either. "From a sales perspective it was good, but not amazing. I think EA was hoping we'd do better."
Capps waggles the finger of blame in the direction of piracy to account for poor sales of the PC edition. "It didn't do very well on PC and I think a lot of that was due to piracy," he said. "It wasn't the best PC port ever, sure, but also piracy was a pretty big problem." The poor demo and questionable marketing probably didn't help either.
To great surprise, mine especially, I thought the original Bulletstorm a forgotten gem of 2011.
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A sequel to the delightful Bulletstorm had once been in the works, Epic Games has revealed, but sadly it wasn't to be. The project was cancelled, and People Can Fly put to work on a new project. When life gives you dick-lemons, make dick-lemonade.
A sequel to the delightful Bulletstorm had once been in the works, Epic Games has revealed, but sadly it wasn't to be. The project was cancelled, and People Can Fly put to work on a new project. When life gives you dick-lemons, make dick-lemonade. : Shacknews
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Which no one besides those on the Shack had a problem with
> poor marketing
No argument there
> high price point
$60 is the new AAA norm. Get used to it. If you don't like it don't pay it. Wait for it to become cheap. Like when it was $5 on Steam.
I assume that they're counting a $5 sale as a "sale" and so when they say sales were poor they're including the $5 sales in there.
> janky pc port
PC port ran fine for me. Not sure what your problem was.
> weak demo
Never played the demo so I'll take your word for it.
And absolutely none of your arguments address the concept that they probably know how badly it was pirated anyway, and most of them come across as piracy justification.
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