Dead Island 2 Developer Dropped

Publisher Deep Silver sends along an announcement saying they have dropped YAGER as developer on Dead Island 2, offering no reason for this shakeup for the zombie sequel. Here's the brief statement:
"With Dead Island 2, Deep Silver has always been dedicated to delivering the sequel that Dead Island fans deserve.

After careful consideration, today we announce the decision to part ways with development partner YAGER.

We will continue working towards bringing our vision of Dead Island 2 to life, and we will share further information at a later stage."
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Jul 15, 2015, 20:43
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Jul 15, 2015, 20:43
 
Kajetan wrote on Jul 15, 2015, 05:02:
According to my information the blame for the X-Rebirth debacle was more with Deep Silver than Egosoft. 80/20, if you want to quantify it. Stupid, utter stupid product management from Deep Silver and a dev, who was forced to finish a broken, misguided attempt to make a X console game with the little resources he had.

There are some people at Deep Silver, who are just toxic. Not particular stupid, because they manage to survive all internal power struggle and still are on top, just toxic for everyone involved.

Your information is pretty good.
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Jul 15, 2015, 14:25
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Jul 15, 2015, 14:25
 
Similar note, did they ever fix Dying Light on ATI cards? It ran poorly last time I tried.
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Re: Dead Island 2 Developer Dropped
Jul 15, 2015, 08:43
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Jul 15, 2015, 08:43
 
So this will be delayed into 2017-ish.

I guess Dying Light is the way to go then.
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Jul 15, 2015, 05:02
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Jul 15, 2015, 05:02
 
NewMaxx wrote on Jul 14, 2015, 22:19:
I can't speculate beyond that but I think you'll find the answer if you focus more on Deep Silver than YAGER.
According to my information the blame for the X-Rebirth debacle was more with Deep Silver than Egosoft. 80/20, if you want to quantify it. Stupid, utter stupid product management from Deep Silver and a dev, who was forced to finish a broken, misguided attempt to make a X console game with the little resources he had.

There are some people at Deep Silver, who are just toxic. Not particular stupid, because they manage to survive all internal power struggle and still are on top, just toxic for everyone involved.
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Jul 15, 2015, 01:58
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Jul 15, 2015, 01:58
 
ItBurn wrote on Jul 15, 2015, 00:13:
From what I saw of Dead Island 2, this is good news. I don't really see room for Dead Island 2 now that we have Dying Light though...

Pretty sure they're still going to make DI2. They've milked the franchise plenty already and have no reason to stop. They're just going to give the project to another dev.
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Jul 15, 2015, 00:13
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Jul 15, 2015, 00:13
 
From what I saw of Dead Island 2, this is good news. I don't really see room for Dead Island 2 now that we have Dying Light though...
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Jul 14, 2015, 23:20
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Jul 14, 2015, 23:20
 
after dying light, they gonna need to hit a serious home run with this
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Jul 14, 2015, 22:48
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Jul 14, 2015, 22:48
 
Rhett wrote on Jul 14, 2015, 22:38:
NewMaxx wrote on Jul 14, 2015, 20:08:
They probably compared it to Dying Light and were like, "fml"

So Techland made Dead Island 1 + Riptide (which were okay, but had some good stuff going for them), then made Dying Light on their own as their own IP, I guess? Unrelated to Dead Island? Why would they even do that? (make two similar games, even if two different developers)

As far as I understand it, Techland was already working on a sequel to Dead Island, but the publisher Deep Silver decided to go with someone else to make the game. Deep Silver owned the Dead Island IP, so Techland finished off their game, made it different enough to avoid IP lawsuits and shipped it under a new name with Warner Brothers publishing it instead.
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Jul 14, 2015, 22:38
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Jul 14, 2015, 22:38
 
NewMaxx wrote on Jul 14, 2015, 20:08:
They probably compared it to Dying Light and were like, "fml"

So Techland made Dead Island 1 + Riptide (which were okay, but had some good stuff going for them), then made Dying Light on their own as their own IP, I guess? Unrelated to Dead Island? Why would they even do that? (make two similar games, even if two different developers)
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Re: Dead Island 2 Developer Dropped
Jul 14, 2015, 22:19
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Jul 14, 2015, 22:19
 
NotOneOfUs wrote on Jul 14, 2015, 21:57:
Just odd there were no rumblings before this.

There actually were some rumblings (I'm an industry insider! No, there actually were some public ones, too) but the sudden drop is a bit of a surprise. It has more to do with politics than the game which is why they are continuing it. I can't speculate beyond that but I think you'll find the answer if you focus more on Deep Silver than YAGER.
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Jul 14, 2015, 21:57
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Jul 14, 2015, 21:57
 
Very strange. Imagine there must've been a lot of behind doors, constant disagreement in direction between dev and publisher. Just odd there were no rumblings before this.

Yager still has Dreadnought in the works, and from The Line I trust them as a developer, but man, just weird. Was very curious in their take on Dead Island.
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Jul 14, 2015, 21:02
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Jul 14, 2015, 21:02
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Not sure what to think. Spec Ops has aged really really well in my mind; the more I think back to it, partly prompted by reading new opinions about it, the more impressed I am. It's really a remarkable achievement. And it's a bit titilating that it was made in my hometown.

So I definitely want to see more stuff by YAGER, but I was a bit disappointed when their next gig was going to be a Dead Island follow-up. Not going to cry any tears about this in that sense, but now I'm worried about their financial future.
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Jul 14, 2015, 20:48
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Jul 14, 2015, 20:48
 
Prey 2 all over again, although I'd imagine this game was much further along in development.
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Jul 14, 2015, 20:24
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Tumbler wrote on Jul 14, 2015, 20:17:
OMG where do I preorder!?

That's the first time I've ever seen a publisher publicly fire a developer like that. Maybe they quit but who cares. The franchise and that developer are fucked.

It's pretty bad when the publisher basically says "no really, we think we can do better elsewhere".

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Jul 14, 2015, 20:17
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Jul 14, 2015, 20:17
 
OMG where do I preorder!?

That's the first time I've ever seen a publisher publicly fire a developer like that. Maybe they quit but who cares. The franchise and that developer are fucked.
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Jul 14, 2015, 20:08
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Jul 14, 2015, 20:08
 
They probably compared it to Dying Light and were like, "fml"
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Jul 14, 2015, 19:56
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Jul 14, 2015, 19:56
 
Sooo....does this mean the game is scrapped or will they Frankenstein it with another developer?
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