Project Cars 2-instruktør er virkelig sur på EA

Project Cars 2 udkom endelig i fredags, og med stærke anmeldelser i baggagen lader det til at udvikleren Slightly Mad Studios kan fortsætte med at arbejde uafhængigt igennem deres relativt frie publiceringsaftale med Bandai Namco. Men, sådan har det ikke altid været. Engang arbejdede studiet under EA på blandt andet Need for Speed Shift og efterfølgeren til det. Dog skulle de have arbejdet på en 3'er, men det skete ikke.

Nu forklarer instruktør Ian Bell, at det skyldes at EA, ifølge hans udlægning, ikke behandlede studiet synderligt godt. I en nylig Q&A fortalte han følgende om processen:

"We made a game called Need for Speed: Shift, we made a game called Shift 2 and EA came to me and said <<We'll give you 1.5 million if you agree not to talk to any other publisher, to agree any other games or work on any other arrangement with any other publisher. And we'll give you 1.5 million and we'll sign Shift 3>>. So I said OK. That sounds like a good deal. I took the 1.5 million, I paid the guys, lots of bonuses, and two weeks before we were due to start Shift 3 it was canceled. With no warning. They said: "We are not doing that anymore"

"We were in trouble, we had nothing left. We were done. They literally destroyed our company. They tried to kill us, they tried to steal our technology as well. They tried to f*ck us over, there is no other way to put it. That's what they tried to do. And we have no love for EA and this company."