The Culling 2 released on the PlayStation 4 last week, and it’s been removed from the PlayStation Store this week. The game, a kind of Battle Royale, was basically a disaster – and developer Xaviant Games has been forced to address its community on YouTube. In a refreshingly frank video, director of operations Josh Van Veld reveals that refunds will be issued to anyone who purchased the title – and that the studio will be returning to work on the original, PC-only version of The Culling.
To put this into clearer focus: the developer made and released a sequel, scrapped it, and is now returning to work on its predecessor. This is unprecedented, no?
While it’s obvious that some poor business decisions were made, we really do appreciate Xaviant Games’ honesty here. The team’s clearly done some soul-searching and come to the conclusion that it made some bad bets, and sometimes that’s okay. Obviously we have no idea how this is going to impact the company financially, but if it can keep its head above water and get back on track, then you've got to give kudos to the studio for swallowing its pride and listening to its fans.
[source youtube.com]
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Watching this whole situation unfold has been quite the experience.
At least the devs have a sense of humour about it.
@Orpheus79V Haha, they seem like good people. I hope they give their fans what they want and get back on track.
What community
@Orpheus79V that sense of humor makes me sympathize with them. Best wishes to that studio.
Never heard of this game actually.
I can feel how upset he is by listening to his voice
"...PC-only version of The Culling."
So the Xbox players gets cucked out as well? Bummer.
That takes courage. You can see how hard that was for him in the video. Backtracking like this must be terrible. Financially they must all be so worried.
I feel bad for them.
Why feel bad for these guys? They made a terrible Pubg clone which bit them in the face & now they are clearly fishing for sympathy.
Sorry to say but you're a chump if you fall for this
@Ichiban Maybe. Bit cynical, though.
@Ichiban In all fairness, the first game came before PUBG and was a battle royale game as well.
The first game is downright terrible, whoever gave them the thumbs up to even consider making a sequel needs to resign.
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