So what happened with the story?

[Clown Reemus]

Did they simply cut it in half and did not even bother to work on DLCs completing it? Or are those two DLCs available the *real* story experience Humankind Divided was supposed to present? I am kind of confused, is this game a major failure for the industry or are they going to release more story in the future?

[Spindles]

Square Enix spent way too much money on the game, most of it on content nobody was interested in (not story content). As such it lost a ton of money and they canned the whole series (for now).

Basicallly the direction of the game was changed halfway through when they saw how much money micro-transactions were making and how accepting players were of them, and tacked on a multiplayer rubbish with those things in it.

The free weekend is mostly about trying to get people invested in the micro-transaction heavy multiplayer rubbish. Gotta sell dem micro-transactions to plebs!

[-|Nur|-]

Everything was meant to be resolved in a third game, but Mankind Divided was too costly to make (it even had a new engine) and didn't sell enough copies. DLCs have nothing to do with any of this.

[Clown Reemus]

Originally posted by -|Nur|-:

Everything was meant to be resolved in a third game, but Mankind Divided was too costly to make (it even had a new engine) and didn't sell enough copies. DLCs have nothing to do with any of this.

So is there any expectation of new game or did greedy ♥♥♥♥ annihilate the series?

[-|Nur|-]

Originally posted by Clown Reemus:

Originally posted by -|Nur|-:

Everything was meant to be resolved in a third game, but Mankind Divided was too costly to make (it even had a new engine) and didn't sell enough copies. DLCs have nothing to do with any of this.

So is there any expectation of new game or did greedy ♥♥♥♥ annihilate the series?

This has nothing to do with greed: it's simply sound business logic not to pour tens of millions of dollars into a game if at the most you can expect to just barely break even.

That being said, a new Deus Ex game is a matter of time, but the series is in a limbo for now.

[Vassago Rain]

They made a standard three part act story.
Marketing worked against this, and a year later, the idea that 'they cut it in half' remains internet truth.

Either way, the game failed commercially, so we got two DLCs (that have nothing to do with the main mission, killing that rumor), and a really short cutting room floor mission as day 1 bonus (further killing the idea that the story was cut in half).

[talgaby]

If anything, the story is more missing its start: you are just dumped in a situation that is never properly explained (the campaign never tells how or why Jensen ended up at either of his bosses, let alone as a double agent… heck, it does not even TELL he is a double agent, you just have to kinda figure it out eventually) and even the world in general has loose ties to the previous games, where the vast majority of those ties are told in mission load screens. On top of that, it uses a myriad of small references to the original Deus Ex, just again, never explains that it is doing that, so younger players will never even get them.

But it has something of an ending, even if it only solves one issue out of the two the game is about, leaving half of the main plot on a cliffhanger sequel bait.

[Vassago Rain]

There's a 45 minute narration about the past game and what Adam's been doing up to this point in time.