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Bulletstorm Sequel Cancelled; PC Piracy Mentioned

[Apr 10, 2012, 09:26 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

In spite of EA saying the original "under-performed," a sequel to Bulletstorm was in the works at People Can Fly before being cancelled by parent company Epic Games reports GameSpot, who hear from Epic president Mike Capps on the topic. Mike indicates they have put the Polish developer on a different project they will "be announcing pretty soon," though there is no clue if this is the recently revealed PC game Epic is planning. "We thought a lot about a sequel, and had done some initial development on it, but we found a project that we thought was a better fit for People Can Fly," he said. "We haven't announced that yet, but we will be announcing it pretty soon." He goes on to praise Bulletstorm and says he'd love to go back to the property, "but right now we don't have anything to talk about." Just to stir the pot a little, the story concludes with Capps' comment that sales of the PC version may have been harmed by piracy: "We made a PC version of Bulletstorm, and it didn't do very well on PC and I think a lot of that was due to piracy. It wasn't the best PC port ever, sure, but also piracy was a pretty big problem."

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Re: Bulletstorm Sequel Cancelled; PC Piracy Mentioned

Apr 10, 2012, 11:48

TheEmissary

Wow Epic/"People Can Fly" you certainly are a piece of work. You seem to be talking out of both sides of your mouth when dealing with PC gamers. You have a few developers saying they should make PC games again and you are even supposedly making a PC exclusive then you bring out this BS again. Have you not learned time and time again it isn't wise to anger your consumer base. Netflix had to learn that the hard way. Maybe just maybe you should do a separate post-mortem on why the game was ill-recieved. I have a feeling piracy wouldn't have been the major reason. PC gamers have money and want to spend it as you only have to look at the hardware we buy, steam sales, and kickstarter. Release a good game and actually support the consumers and just maybe people will buy your games. This comment was edited on Apr 10, 2012, 11:59.

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