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Bottlerocket fire blast across Namco’s bow
If you have been paying close attention then over the last 2 weeks we have reported that namco had taken back development of Splatterhouse from Bottlerocket. Then that Namco released a statement saying that the reason they took back the development was that Bottlerocket had a “performance issue”.
Well the silence has been broken on Bottlerocket’s (developers of Sony top seller Mark of Kri and Rise of Kasai) end with a carefully worded FUCK YOU !
A statement from the company issued to Gamasutra reads as follows:
“We too have to be careful of what we say since publishers have to worry about their ‘image’ and will sue small, independent studios who bark back at them too loudly. Game development contracts are put in place to protect the publisher and their interests. Within these contracts are a series of defined game development objectives and goals called milestones. If a developer is under performing they tend to fail these milestones and have varying degrees of accountability placed upon them. Splatterhouse had been in development for over eighteen months and up to having the title taken away from us we had not missed any contractually defined milestones. So either there were no performance issues during that timeframe or Namco’s management of the title was inept.”
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