The Lord of the Rings: Gollum developed by Daedalic Entertainment failed to launch. With no improvement in sales and negative reviews, the original team faced a difficult turning point, laying off staff and terminating the follow-up game development project.
Has launched the highly acclaimed narrative adventure series “Deponia”. Daedalic is not only a game developer, but also has released many well-known independent games for other studios, such as the well-known “Deponia”, “Iratus: Lord of the Dead” and “The General’s Blade”.
However, “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum” is Daedalic’s first large-scale project personally implemented. It was originally expected to be released in 2021 and delayed until 2023. After the game was launched, it was criticized by foreign media and players due to its gameplay and many bugs. It received mostly negative reviews on Steam. The dismal results also made Daedalic apologize to the players on the official Twitter for the game not meeting expectations.
A few words from the ” The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ ” team pic.twitter.com/adPamy5EjO
— The Lord of the Rings: Gollum (@GollumGame) May 26, 2023
according to german media games economy According to reports, Daedalic’s evaluation and sales failure of the release of “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum” will affect the development project of the next “Lord of the Rings”, and at the same time stop the development of the new survival simulation “Surviving Deponia” and transfer it to AtomicTorch to take over the development.
Daedalic said in a statement to German media that the company’s focus is about to shift, and 25 of its 90 employees will be laid off.
“The Lord of the Rings: Gollum did not meet our expectations for the game, but we are very grateful for the opportunity and learning experience it gave us,” Daedalic toldmedia my city The statement said: “This is a difficult setback, but also a new beginning in the long history of Daedalic Entertainment. We value every member of our team very much and the most important thing for us is to make it through as smoothly as possible. Therefore, we also support our ex-employees in finding new opportunities. “
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2023-07-01 04:19:58
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