Siden lukningen af Dead Space-udviklingen Visceral Games har en række tidligere ansatte krøbet ud fra skyggerne, og siger nu interessante ting og sager om vores kære spilbranche. Nu påstår én udvikler, der har arbejdet på Dead Space-serien, at gyserspil er en meget svært genre at beskæftige sig med, for den er både dyr og svær at sælge.
Zach Wilson, der tidligere har arbejdet hos Visceral og nu er hos Bethesda Softworks, arbejdede på Dead Space 3, der blev kritiseret for at have for meget action og for lidt horror. Han har forsvaret beslutningen i et interview med Games Industry:
"Survival horror is hard. Horror games in general are expensive to make and hard to sell. People would give us the feedback that they love Dead Space but don't buy it cause it's too scary. Kind of works against itself.
You can't sell games to a market that wants them to exist but doesn't want to buy them. The actual process of generating projections - which EA uses to set marketing budgets and judge success - is incredibly opaque, which I think most devs found frustrating. We can't translate our passion into a spreadsheet."
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