"The situation of Reality Pump started to grow dire a few years ago. In 2013, Mirosaw Dymek, the main pillar of the company, left, taking along a number of talented developers. They moved together to the newly created Kraków branch of CD Projekt RED."
"Unfortunately, after the exodus of some employees to CD Projekt, a team of only about 30 people remained in the studio, who all got down to work on the pirate-themed sandbox entitled Raven's Cry. It was this title that probably sealed the fate of the developer. The game was allocated to the Polish studio by the German publisher after its original developers failed to rise to the challenge. In Poland, the production had to be completed within a very short period of time and virtually from scratch, while having a limited budget."
"Without much publicity or a marketing campaign, Raven's Cry finally launched in January this year on PC, following a string of postponed release dates. Underdeveloped and full of bugs, the game met with an extremely cold reception of the players and reviewers alike. The scale of the failure was revealed by Steamspy.com, which claimed that the title available on Valve's platform was bought by as few as several thousand players. In the wake of the developer's bankruptcy and bad response to the game, the previously planned console versions of Raven’s Cry will most likely never see the light of day."
http://www.gamepressure.com/e.asp?ID=101
Ah well. I had fun with TW1, in a "so bad it's good" kind of way. Lots of laughs. It wasn't a bad RPG, if you could accept all of its limitations. TW2 was an improvement and not bad, either, though it lacked the hilariously bad parts of TW1, so it wasn't quite as fun(ny) to play.
I saw a little of Raven's Cry, and it looked like a stinker.
"Unfortunately, after the exodus of some employees to CD Projekt, a team of only about 30 people remained in the studio, who all got down to work on the pirate-themed sandbox entitled Raven's Cry. It was this title that probably sealed the fate of the developer. The game was allocated to the Polish studio by the German publisher after its original developers failed to rise to the challenge. In Poland, the production had to be completed within a very short period of time and virtually from scratch, while having a limited budget."
"Without much publicity or a marketing campaign, Raven's Cry finally launched in January this year on PC, following a string of postponed release dates. Underdeveloped and full of bugs, the game met with an extremely cold reception of the players and reviewers alike. The scale of the failure was revealed by Steamspy.com, which claimed that the title available on Valve's platform was bought by as few as several thousand players. In the wake of the developer's bankruptcy and bad response to the game, the previously planned console versions of Raven’s Cry will most likely never see the light of day."
http://www.gamepressure.com/e.asp?ID=101
Ah well. I had fun with TW1, in a "so bad it's good" kind of way. Lots of laughs. It wasn't a bad RPG, if you could accept all of its limitations. TW2 was an improvement and not bad, either, though it lacked the hilariously bad parts of TW1, so it wasn't quite as fun(ny) to play.
I saw a little of Raven's Cry, and it looked like a stinker.
