{"id":62796,"date":"2014-03-25T14:15:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T12:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62796"},"modified":"2014-03-25T14:17:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T12:17:03","slug":"publishers-dont-care-about-gamers-only-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62796-publishers-dont-care-about-gamers-only-profits","title":{"rendered":"Publishers don&#8217;t care about gamers, only profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning believes publisher&#8217;s push out &#8220;incomplete&#8221; triple-A games just to please shareholders, without consideration for the hard work put in by\u00a0developers and the experience of the player.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking after the announcement by DICE that the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62791-battlefield-4-naval-strike-pc-delayed-over-quality-concerns.html\">Battlefield 4: Naval Strike expansion for PC would be delayed<\/a> due to an &#8220;issue&#8221; that needed to be resolved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d rather not make games than go f***ing be a slave for public companies who care more about their shareholders than they do about their customers,&#8221; said Lanning in an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2014\/03\/25\/battlefield-4-shipped-with-dirt-all-over-it-lanning\/\" target=\"_blank\">VG24\/7.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did Battlefield 4 ship? You know that team was crying. You know that team knew that game wasn\u2019t ready to go&#8230;\u00a0\u201cF**k that business. I don\u2019t want to play with that business, because it was a losing business,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know that team f***ing spent a lot of sleepless nights building that s**t out to look as good and play as good&#8230; as they were intending it to be played. Someone made a decision that the shareholders are more important than the customer. And we see a lot of that. How do you blow that? How do you take that f***ing jewel and ship it with dirt all over it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lanning recently spoke about <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62645-new-oddworld-game-on-the-horizon.html\" target=\"_blank\">his plans to launch a new Oddworld game<\/a>\u00a0if his latest creation New &#8216;n Tasty sold over 500,000 copies. He said the game, which will retail for just over R300, would look and play better than games that cost R650.00.\u00a0\u201cIf this had a publisher, the price would be higher and they\u2019d be calling it a triple-A,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Abe-Oddworld-Oddysee.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-39574\" alt=\"Abe Oddworld Oddysee\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Abe-Oddworld-Oddysee.jpg\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Abe-Oddworld-Oddysee.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Abe-Oddworld-Oddysee-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Abe-Oddworld-Oddysee-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Abe-Oddworld-Oddysee-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Abe-Oddworld-Oddysee-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Abe-Oddworld-Oddysee-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Abe-Oddworld-Oddysee-297x167.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Abe-Oddworld-Oddysee-530x298.jpg 530w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Abe-Oddworld-Oddysee-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go for the money or give gamers the best experience possible &#8211; what should publishers be focused on? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2014\/03\/25\/battlefield-4-shipped-with-dirt-all-over-it-lanning\/\" target=\"_blank\">VG24\/7<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/62776-best-smartphones-for-gaming.html\">Best smartphones for gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62788-enraged-gamer-causes-r271000-damage-in-violent-assault.html\">Enraged gamer causes R271,000 damage<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62734-forget-goats-heres-bear-simulator.html\">Forget goats, here\u2019s Bear Simulator<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning says shareholders are becoming more important than customers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":62799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8232,5693,12166,4572,21,6992,1491,12168,4123,4067],"class_list":["post-62796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-aaa-games","tag-battlefield-4","tag-battlefield-4-naval-strike","tag-games-that-got-delayed","tag-headline","tag-lorne-lanning","tag-oddworld","tag-oddworld-new-n-tasty","tag-profit","tag-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62802,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62796\/revisions\/62802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}