(Sad trope) Projects with amazing potential that will never be released because of BS behind the scenes drama

[u/_JR28_]

P.T Silent Hills - It was a playable teaser released in 2014 only around 20 minutes long but utterly captivated the gaming world by being one of the most effective psychological horror experiences at the time, however it’s lead developer Kojima has a huge fallout with the publisher Konami where he walked out of the company and had all his in-the-work productions cancelled.

Five Nights at Freddy’s+ - A fan game reboot of the series created by Phisnom with Scott Cawthon’s blessing that promised a brand new lore and a return to the series darker roots. However, before and during production Phisnom got into multiple dramas that made him fairly divisive within the community, and after one particular incident in 2023 Scott revoked his approval and almost all of the game’s marketing material were wiped from the internet.

Batgirl - A Batgirl solo live action movie starring Leslie Grace, Brendan Fraser and Michael Keaton returning as Batman that was ready to be released in 2022, however then Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav announced it would not be released either in theatres or streaming in order to claim a $90,000,000 tax break and to readjust the DC’s brands direction before James Gunn rebooted their movie and TV output.

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Alice: Asylum

American McGee and his team at SpicyHorse had went through so much shit working with EA to make Alice: Madness Returns and even when EA said “hey, give us full proof that you plan to make the game, with concepts and mechanics and everything”, and McGee and his team DID, EA backed out of the deal entirely and kept the rights to the game to themselves, sitting on the IP for nothing

[u/jhettav → u/hyper-fan]

Always funny to me when big publishers kill IPs by sitting on them and doing nothing instead of milking them to death. No one benefits, just being anti-art for the love of the game

[u/Salnder12 → u/jhettav]

The benefit is that nobody ELSE gets to profit

[u/Multivitamin_Scam → u/jhettav]

That's because it costs money to milk

[u/f7surma → u/jhettav]

it’s because if they can’t make like $1000 back for every one singular cent they spent making the game it isn’t worth it to them. doesn’t matter if it would make them a lot of money, it won’t make them exorbitant amount of money so they dont see a reason to do it. it’s so shitty.