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Message: [QUOTE="thetwaz, post: 290809, member: 861686"] Stories around vaporware and overhyped games are always interesting to me. For me, one of the things that Daikatana and Duke Nukem Forever did was start to sever the idea that developers or the artists always knew best - which had to a point generally been a feature up until the late 90s. Those two high profile failures seemed to begin a change in publishers being a lot more wary of golden child programmers and designers, and I think is one of the reasons games and the design process look like it does now. Compare this to Freelancer for instance - Chris Roberts (of Wing Commander fame) had his wings clipped by Microsoft when his expansive vision that led to significant delays. Ultimately probably the right decision in that case, but I wondered if perhaps some publishers held the reigns a little less tightly whether we might get more interesting results. [/QUOTE]

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