Thread: Black & White 2
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Old 10-14-2005, 05:42 PM   #15 (permalink)
FngKestrel
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Originally Posted by Pragma
The patch lets you skip the tutorial, apparently. And no, I'm glad that they released a patch - it's just a sign that their publisher sucks that the game was forced out.

Game publishers are too focused on the bottom line when they should be letting their developers have the resources they need to make good video games. I've got a few friends in the game industry (some up in Washington, some in England) and the general concensus is that the dev team and the publishers don't always see eye to eye on a lot of things, and especially don't get along.

Unfortunately, I don't really see a solution to that problem, as unless a developer gets large enough to support publishing their own stuff, they'll need to rely on someone else for money - and that means that someone else gets to push them towards a release as fast as possible.
Exactly right. The publisher is EA, who ends up pulling all their underhanded tricks. It'll probably be yet another game that I won't be able to install on my system. Fuckers.

The addendum to that is that the publisher is usually being pushed around by the distributors because of limited shelf space.
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