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http://www.appstore.com/thefinalhoursoftitanfall
Of the same vein as The Final Hours of Portal 2, Geoff Keighley released The Final Hours of Titanfall today on the app store.
A Kotaku article by Jason Schreier has a good re-cap of it
http://kotaku.com/titanfall-was-alm..._source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow
Here's a few quick quotes:
Note on lack of PS4 development via Randomwab:
http://www.appstore.com/thefinalhoursoftitanfall
Of the same vein as The Final Hours of Portal 2, Geoff Keighley released The Final Hours of Titanfall today on the app store.
A Kotaku article by Jason Schreier has a good re-cap of it
http://kotaku.com/titanfall-was-alm..._source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow
Here's a few quick quotes:
Kotaku said:"On certain days almost half the company would crowd into the conference room for multi-hour meetings with lawyers. Often those discussions would spill over into the afternoon with debates about the latest legal maneuver. The rest of the company was supposed to be heads-down working on the game, but one Google Alert about the lawsuit sent development into a tailspin for the rest of the afternoon."
Keighley describes one particularly harrowing meeting in July of 2012. Not long after the lawsuit was settled, Respawn employees got a meeting invitation titled "Come to Jesus." The purpose
"What West hoped would be a constructive dialectic turned into an all-out lynching," Keighley writes. "Pent-up feelings burst into the open. Employee after employee complained about the rushed way the lawsuit had been settled. Many attacked West directly and complained that he hadn't properly balanced his time between the lawsuit and the game, which he had largely ignored for the better part of a year."P
In early 2013, Kotaku broke news that West had left Respawn. We'd heard that he left for family issues—namely, that he was moving to be closer to his mom, who had come down with a respiratory illness—but there's more to the story: the lawsuits and difficulty at Respawn drove West away from the company he helped found.
Note on lack of PS4 development via Randomwab:
A couple different reasons. Essentially, Microsoft was talking with them about Durango very early on and courting them to move Titanfall over to that. They asked Sony if they could talk to them about the next Playstation, but Sony constantly said they weren't ready to discuss. It even mentions Sony were willing to help Respawn to get a Vita version of the game. It mentions that they essentially pleaded with Sony, saying "Listen, things are about to be locked in behind the scenes. If you want this, please talk to us", which Sony again declined.
It also mentions that at a point later in development, Zampella and West sat down with Riccitiello to tell him that they didn't have enough manpower to develop for any consoles other than Xbone and, maybe, PC, and that Respawn was essentially out of money and the game would need to be delayed and that they'd cut single player. EA ended up having to find the funding for the project with a first party, and Microsoft were willing to put up the money to actually finish the game.