Scalebound Cancelled

Yeah...

@charizard1605: nice copy and paste response.

clearly you're on a bash xbox parade, with no real insight to this thread.

Wow... What shit that is.

The site is up but it has this message, looks like it's true:

Today, I have a difficult announcement to share that affects our fans, Microsoft Studios team and a valued partner. After careful deliberation, we have come to the decision to end production for Scalebound. This decision was not made lightly.

At Microsoft, we remain committed to making Xbox and Windows 10 the best places to play games, and look forward to bringing "Halo Wars 2", "Crackdown 3", "State of Decay 2", "Sea of Thieves" and other great experiences to our fans.

MS still owns the IP.. But if the guy is having mental breakdowns/issues and the game potentially is unfinished with it's vision not achieved, why continue it?

MS knows alot more you do.

Doubtful, especially with Scorpio coming out this year. It sucks though. Microsoft need to stop cancelling their big game exclusives and start announcing a lot more.

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Sliverdix is never spot on with anything he says. lol!!

The irony!

OT: Wow, kind of came out of left field if you don't follow MS's titles on a regular basis.

#SmearCampaign

I responded to you separately. I am copying and pasting responses when people aren't bothering to read shit I have already said and asking me questions I have answered. But keep on damage controlling.

Actually, MS has 13 times the market cap of Sony.

Why would i DC this game? I never hyped it a ton and this is probably the best decision if the team cannot finish the game or potentially mental issues at hand.

MS did the right decision at this point and time, but continue your butthurt hate.

Well didn't MS take 5+ years for Alan Wake? Your example means absolutely nothing. You have no idea what's going on in house. You're just spewing your hate as usual. Go back on your break from SWs

They sure would have. They have a long track record of very good to great games to back them up. They believe gameplay is king.

That sucks. It looked promising when it was revealed.

Honestly, it could have been worse. What if Sea of Thieves was canceled? That would have truly been sad. Knock on wood.

This meh, there was not a lot of gameplay shown and quite frankly I found it hard to see how they were going to deliver on their promise of 1-4 local coop. With what? Everyone controlling a person in split-screen? Everyone mashed into one screen? Regardless, I don't think it's the end of the world.

TLG wasn't 10 years non-stop in development with a full team like Scalebound was. Indeed Microsoft is the richer one of the three, why? Because they don't make shit business decisions... Sony wouldn't be in such a "decent" financial state if Microsoft didn't **** up their Xbox One launch which gave PS4 carte blanche, and lol Nintendo... They are in a great state currently...

Just because you have money doesn't mean you have to make bad decisions that don't make sense, because you can spare it. Are you really that naive?

youre probably right, but MS really needs some games. They cant rely on just the Scorpio when it has nothing to back it up in supposedly the middle of the xbone life cycle

haha i knew this game couldn't run properly on the X1. it only makes perfect sense when you look at Nier visuals. Then, take into account the fact that PT has all their games in 60fps and there was no f'ing way this thing would run on a Bone with this kind of graphics and frames on an HD 7700, slow ram and a Walmart gpu.

This sucks...wow. It really sucks to hear this. I can't even say something fanboyish ATM it just hurts man.

@blackace: they canceled free to play fable legends and scalebound. What other AAA did they cancel this gen?

Eh, no. The game looked like hot trash. Sony ain't no IP charity. If the basics can't match the classic P* gameplay that's shown in Nier: Automata then it needed to be binned, or at the very least, shot into the earth's core. It looked slow, sluggish, and janky as ****. Terrible concept complete with horrible co-op inclusion, probably to appeal to the xbox crowd who love their multiplayer so much.

I'm still getting Nier! Assuming his mental illness doesn't affect that game.

Yeah, I mistyped and already edited that.

HAHAHAHA, I forgot about that. @charizard1605 it's time to put the Gorilla back.

@kvally:

Hahahah hey dynamitecop you posted from the wrong account...hahahahha

Forgot to change before posting...

@silversix_: nier visuals? Lol what visuals?

That's why I said what I said. More new IP's and exclusives.

WOW... F**k you, Microsoft Studios! I was looking forward to playing a Platinum developed game this year.

Please re-open the development without MS. Name it something different like FROM did with Demon's Souls.

Honestly, this gen has been real bad for Platinum.

-Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2 (don't even get me started on the latter...), though well received, sell like ass and I don't think Bayonetta did too well in DLC sales for Smash.

-They buddy up with Activision and made the awful Korra and Ninja Turtles games

-Scalebound gets canned

(Some may ask to add Star Fox Zero on this, but any problems with that game are on Nintendo, not Platinum, that said, I still wait for it to become cheaper so I can play it).

@blackace: im with ya there

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm so pissed. Kamiya needs to make more games.

I just want to reiterate. Losing this game really sucks. I was even prepared to actually buy it off the MS Store if I had to. More than anything else, this is a sad loss for gamers and I sincerely hope that Kamiya is going to be okay.

Jesus Christ, this shit again

Bayonetta 2 sold 700,000 copies on the Wii U- the first game sold 1.2 million across two systems. Platinum got paid by Nintendo regardless, the losses, if any, were for Nintendo

Bayonetta is the second most successful Smash DLC character, after only Cloud

Your entire trumped up narrative that Bayonetta 2 represents some kind of world ending catastrophe is trumped up and nonsensical

Yeah the last games from Platinum games sucked. It wasn't looking great in the end at all.

Dodged a bullet there.

LOL exactly. if this is all they're able to give us in 60fps ON A MORE POWERFUL SYSTEM, THE PS4. How the f did anyone expected this (pic above) to be running on a Bone, a console that is ~30% weaker? Think for a second and you'll understand. MS is just hype with no substance. Be ready to be royally disappointed about Scorpio.

It's never a good thing when a game gets cancelled especially when it's a game from Platinum Games but I can't say I didn't see this coming. There was just something off about how this game was coming along.

And so it begins....So what exactly are lems going to be playing this year? This game was the most promising looking game coming to Xbone in 2017. I wasn't gonna get an Xbone to play it since I already own a PC but I was looking forward to playing it on Windows 10 if I had to. Why does MS lack the commitment and patience to create a diverse exclusive library. You know if this was Sony they probably would have stuck through till the the end and they are a much poorer company than MS. MS claims that they are in it for the long haul but they always seem to cut and run when there's development trouble. They can't compete with Sony if they don't want to move past HaloGearsForza, this game looked like the beginning of a new chapter for MS this gen and now it has disappeared into the same black hole as Fable Legends and other failed MS projects.

woops wrong thread

@quadknight said:

It's never a good thing when a game gets cancelled especially when it's a game from Platinum Games but I can't say I didn't see this coming. There was just something off about how this game was coming along.

@FLOPPAGE_50 said:

@charizard1605 said:

@FLOPPAGE_50: Duke Nukem Forever flat out changed studios at least twice.

Platinum Games are among the most talented developers in the industry. If they had been given time, they would have delivered.

MS still owns the IP.. But if the guy is having mental breakdowns/issues and the game potentially is unfinished with it's vision not achieved, why continue it?

MS knows alot more you do.

And so it begins....So what exactly are lems going to be playing this year? This game was the most promising looking game coming to Xbone in 2017. I wasn't gonna get an Xbone to play it since I already own a PC but I was looking forward to playing it on Windows 10. Why does MS lack the commitment and patience to create an exclusive library. You know if this was Sony they probably would have stuck through till the the end and they are a much poorer company than MS. MS claims that they are in it for the long haul but they always seem to cut and run when there's development trouble. They can't compete with Sony if they don't want to move past HaloGearsForza, this game looked like the beginning of a new chapter for MS this gen and now it has disappeared into nothingness.

Again nonsense rambling.

MS knows what it's doing, they cancelled an unfinished game, while this sucks.. it was probably needed.

It's not a huge loss, SoT would've hurt more.

@FastRobby:

Hahhaahhaahahahahaaaaaaaaaa...OMG

Some of you people are incredible after hyping this game for years now all of the sudden no one liked it..hahaha

Get a backbone.

Yes, right place it has been cancelled.

I've have never played any of their games, and this game fail to get me excited so I don't care. BTW, their recent games, e.g., Star Fox Zero, Star Fox Guard and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles all flopped.

Star Fox Guard was Nintendo, and Zero was basically Platinum doing coding with Nintendo actually directing and producing.

God damn it they could have fixed the game before releasing it rather than cancelling it. Take a page out of Koei Tecmo's book.

At least I will still have Nioh.

I like all the "platinum is bad" damage control going around now that its cancelled

Platinum Studios or not, the game didn't look very good. With that said, an exclusive is an exclusive, and the Xbox doesn't have enough of those.

Well sucks for Xbox One gamers. Too bad as it looked to be rather far along its development.

These are just the ones that were made public. If we get into behind the scenes stuff, Microsoft just looks even worse. Obsidian almost went under after Microsoft cancelled Stormlands.

At one point this generation they actually had more 1st party studios than Sony listed. You'll notice that many of them are no longer on their website, they closed several studios and teams this gen that they've kept under wraps. You know Decisive Games which were rumored to be working on a new Age of Empires? You'll notice they no longer exist. Twisted Pixel had their new IP cancelled and they parted ways with Microsoft.

Forgot about the Phantom Dust reboot and the studio that got closed alongside it.

Seriously. Is MS even aware that people buy gaming hardware so they can play GAMES?

Games you say?

@FLOPPAGE_50: In other words you've got nothing and you continue to fellate Phil Spencer, gotcha.