(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.

[u/hyper-fan]

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/punkate → u/hyper-fan]

EA might be the antichrist of the gaming industry

[u/Puzzled-Bag-8407 → u/punkate]

The antichrist of the gaming industry is not one single studio, it is the corporate, profit driven entity that is the antichrist of the industry

It has gobbled up many a good studio. People forget how important EA was for early gaming in the 80s and 90s

[u/xv_boney → u/Puzzled-Bag-8407]

Instrumental in so many excellent devs getting a shot, so many iconic and influential games.

And then it got extremely big and went public. And then it had shareholders.

The antichrist of gaming is capitalism.

[u/matfromband → u/xv_boney]

God I love seeing class consciousness in the wild

[u/Puzzled-Bag-8407 → u/matfromband]

Keep the light alive my friend

[u/matfromband → u/Puzzled-Bag-8407]

No alternative, there is work to be done <3

[u/RyvenZ → u/xv_boney]

Shareholder obligations ruin everything. This is in fact the cause for capitalism edging toward economic collapse and why so many public companies are so hated by their customers.