Has anyone heard of the Dev or the Publisher ? what other games have they made?

[Last(1CMD)]

Has anyone heard of the Dev or the Publisher ? what other games have they made?

[Devil Daughter]

Is it really that hard for you to use a search engine and look at their websites?

Developer:
https://www.buildarocketboy.com/

Publisher:
https://ioi.dk/

[Last(1CMD)]

Originally posted by Devil Daughter:

Is it really that hard for you to use a search engine and look at their websites?

Developer:
https://www.buildarocketboy.com/

Publisher:
https://ioi.dk/

Except the devs site tells you nothing, it's like the first trailers for The day Before, they made a cool trailer but can a studio no one knows about make the game shown?

[Gienah Corvi]

Originally posted by Last:

Except the devs site tells you nothing, it's like the first trailers for The day Before, they made a cool trailer but can a studio no one knows about make the game shown?

Can a new studio make a game? Yes.

As for the publisher, it's IOI, the Hitman guys, it's their publishing arm since Hitman: WoA did so well (and is absolutely fantastic I might add). IOI has a new James Bond game, fantasy/dragon game (previously was going to be Xbox exclusive I believe), and some other stuff on deck, along with this new publishing arm.

[Burnout_122812]

Also a month before release and no spec details, no anything about the game. Just seems highly "suspicious."

[Punk Chaz]

Devs are former Rockstar devs, I read that on pcgamer I think.

[Bancho]

Originally posted by Punk Chaz:

Devs are former Rockstar devs, I read that on pcgamer I think.

again, that doesnt mean anything. They could have been the mail room boy

also (not referring to you) but psa getting passive aggressive to questions like OPs only hurts the game

[Prophet]

Originally posted by Burnout_122812:

Also a month before release and no spec details, no anything about the game. Just seems highly "suspicious."

Just means there will more than likely be a delay or in the next 2 weeks there will be a info and gameplay overload. Ever since the day before everyone thinks every game is a scam now

[Last(1CMD)]

Originally posted by Bancho:

Originally posted by Punk Chaz:

Devs are former Rockstar devs, I read that on pcgamer I think.

again, that doesnt mean anything. They could have been the mail room boy

also (not referring to you) but psa getting passive aggressive to questions like OPs only hurts the game

Former blizzard devs make stormgate and used it to scam people out of millions in crowd funding, just look how ♥♥♥♥ that game is. There is usually a reason they are former devs if they were good they would be moving up the ranks in the studio and making millions. Not saying they are former devs to try to convince you to fund them.

[Gienah Corvi]

Oh c'mon, it's published by IOI which are an awesome developer. I doubt they'd let their first big publishing contract go out with something they didn't feel was bad. Maybe I'm wrong, I just don't see it after playing Hitman: WoA.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Gienah Corvi:

Oh c'mon, it's published by IOI which are an awesome developer. I doubt they'd let their first big publishing contract go out with something they didn't feel was bad. Maybe I'm wrong, I just don't see it after playing Hitman: WoA.

Just to be clear, most of the developers who worked on Hitman left the company. IOI has had a near complete change over of management and devs when they expanded to make their new games and begin publishing others

New IOI is in name only

[Trigger]

Leslie Benzies was a Rockstar at Rockstar games

[Gienah Corvi]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Just to be clear, most of the developers who worked on Hitman left the company. IOI has had a near complete change over of management and devs when they expanded to make their new games and begin publishing others

New IOI is in name only

Fair enough. We can judge them going forward then.

[NitrousX]

The head of the company is no other than Leslie Benzie who was one of the founders of Rockstar Games. Before he left the company he is credited for helping to create GTAV

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by NitrousX:

The head of the company is no other than Leslie Benzie who was one of the founders of Rockstar Games. Before he left the company he is credited for helping to create GTAV

He was not a founder. Founder implies he was there when the company was formed, and he wasn't. He was hired later and eventually became president of the company, but he wasn't a founder or original member.

The Rockstar Games label was founded in 1998 by Sam Houser, Terry Donovan, Dan Houser, Jamie King and Gary Foreman

Leslie Benzie was part of DMA Designs (starting in 1995), which was purchased and became part of Rockstar a couple years later around 2000 or 2001.

He served as president starting with Grand Theft Auto 3 until he resigned in 2016, having had a part in GTA 3, 4, 5 and both Manhunt games.

He then spent years in lawsuits with Rockstar before forming his own companies and getting investments from IOI to make new games, several of which have already been cancelled and only MindsEye making it to potential release.