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When I heard Scalebound was cancelled, I was in disbelief. It popped up in my youtube feed by one of the channels I honestly don't pay so much attention to. I go running around looking on the net for further news, and... it's true. Now I stayed in ignorance of this project, because in current circumstances, this was never a game I was able to get. I look for names on PS4, Wii U, and whatever occult rituals bring out a PS Vita game. and then a couple low-spec-able indie PC titles. Xbox one, is a dream. Scalebound was in that dream though. I saw it as an enticing deal; Get the Xbone, get that awesome dragon game, that big build-a-game game, Retro Replay, and Sunset Overdrive, maybe Halo and Gears some day. Sounds like a real good fun time. Whoops, no more dragon game for you, because of course not! People that decide cool basic concepts every kid and fantasy nerd dreams of playing, is just too.... not-us. We've got to keep it human, or zombies, because we're too boring to take on dragons, werewolves, or raptors anymore. So... guess it just wasn't meant to be, and I'm stuck trying to convince people Lair wasn't shit.
However despite my great disbelief, I never thought it was anything too shocking beyond just "we did the math, it ain't looking good. Sorry guys!" Everybody else did find it too hard to accept though, and I feel alien in this space. A bunch of different disconnected ideas, ranging from "The xbox isn't good enough" to "They treated them awful! Bad blood, bad blood!". People like Angry Joe have reaction videos over their over-enthusiastic disbelief, watching gameplay and calling it a finished project just because some 8-12 minute tightly controlled piece was ready for show. Get a grip guys. We've seen devs come out against Microsoft before. It's happened, and it doesn't quite look like this. They have issues with their regulations, or simply straight up get told that their game doesn't meet business interests. It's cold, it's bad, and MS should be ashamed of having killed such things like a real B&K game from Rare, but still most great games still endure. In one of the worst recent case scenarios, they practically forced Blizzard to make Diablo 3 run higher-res than it could. That... that is your boogie-man people, they go "PATCH IT 1080P"! How do we get from that to dumping money on a project for years, just to cancel it because the... CEO took a vacation or whatever. That's kinda silly. We're just hearing things for the first time on cancellation, and the dev is already denying claims from these rumors about stressed health, and Microsoft's fairly honest and awesome Phil Spence (who was not in charge around the time of those past devs hating MS's practices) has issued an apology on this subject suggesting he loved the game too.
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The only thing odd, is that MS is pulling down videos from their own youtube, something that... is actually exactly what I'd expect of certain people who are paranoid on making sure they don't go out of their way to advertise people on something they can't promise. Meanwhile, time and time again, what we get when people go batshit crazy is DMCA take-downs, and fights to silence and erase the product. This is just company management. Unnecessary, but still the very same behavior to come from people I've seen before. Small youtubers will strip out entire videos of things they regret, or experimented with, just because they don't want that to be any first impression video someone gets of them. They don't want it 'representing' their channel. Yet people think Scalebound is only being "erased" because of some eerie company secret, and evil deed? With Scalebound, you can show it, you can talk about it, Platinum can talk about it, Phil Spence is over tweeting about it, they just feel bad when they continue to let it be advertised. They aren't erasing anything about this game's existence! It's still on the net without a fight. Stop making up a reason to be extra upset! The game being cancelled is reason enough to be dissatisfied, what's with this sudden competition to raise the stakes higher? Move on with your life. Not everything is a Battlefront 3, or a Prey 2 situation, sometimes games just don't make it in a business sense, or there's so many problems with the game itself that they'd rather not discuss. ...but nope, gotta keep that anti-corporate logic going so hard, you got to make up your own villainous deeds.
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