YouTube– Game Two channel released a special video in which journalists tried to understand the reasons for the failure of one of the most promising games, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum from the Hamburg studio Daedalic Entertainment.
So far the video is only available in German, but the creators are already preparing English subtitles, they should appear in the next few days. But thanks to the video, it became known that the budget of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was 15 million euros (about 16 million dollars).
The game was released in May 2023, and critics called it the failure of the year. On Metacritic the game received only 34 points, more than 64% of users Steam left negative reviews, many complained about bugs, crashes and scolded the developers for false advertising promises.
The Daedalic Entertainment studio then issued an apology and promises to fix everything. At the same time, in the traditionalpostcard“They managed to misspell the name of the game: The Lord of the Ring.
The failure of the Gollum story cost Daedelic Entertainment dearly: the German company abandoned the idea of making games and focused entirely on publishing.
2023-10-07 17:37:40
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