SEGA states Gearbox used budget from Aliens: Colonial Marines on Borderlands franchise.

[Noanykey]

http://segabits.com/blog/2013/02/16/another-gearbox-worker-takes-to-reddit-says-segas-money-funded-the-borderlands-franchise/

Intresting were hearing this from SEGA. I don't know what I should be more angry about, the news or where its coming from.

[Masterhummel]

Hah, now ♥♥♥♥ is hitting the fan. I'm curious if they really sue them or clear that in another way.

[Dean]

Oh well never mind, maybe next time all the alien Fans come together a game then??

[LeteciMedvjedic]

this sucksi waited for a long time for aliens colonial marines,they had alot of time to make a good game!

[MMMMM]

Please god let this be true and grounds for a civil case.

[whispa]

Sounds about right, the only headlines i wanna see is gearbox gets sued, or gearbox has closed its doors for good.

[Masterhummel]

Btw where is he? Well, maybe he finally played the game.

[Kalec84]

You know guys? I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ each other over for a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ percentage.

It fit perfectly -.-

[Knight_Kin]

Haha so Apt. It's like Gearbox tried to re-create Weyland Yutani in the game and ended up acting like them in real life. LOOK AT THAT! They *did* do a quality re-creation, just not in the game itself.

http://youtu.be/d4qTMOo8H6I

[Kalec84]

Every time i see or hear about the E3 demo, i hope about the same ending... ^__^

[MMMMM]

Originally posted by Knight_Kin:

Haha so Apt. It's like Gearbox tried to re-create Weyland Yutani in the game and ended up acting like them in real life. LOOK AT THAT! They *did* do a quality re-creation, just not in the game itself.

Haha good stuff.

[Purpus]

I call ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Sega trusted Gearbox with the game because of Borderlands? Borderlands was released almost 3 YEARS after Gearbox and SEGA announced the A:CM reboot.

[Lukster Lee]

They funded Borderlands 2 with the ACM pre-order money, not BL1 Link.

[tmwfte]

Originally posted by General Taskeen:

They funded Borderlands 2 with the ACM pre-order money, not BL1 Link.

Given that most retailers only started accepting pre-orders in December/January for A:CM that would seem to be impossible. What the redditer would be talking about would be the initial seed capital from the contract, not pre-order funds.

Also, keep in mind that this didn't come from Sega directly, it came from an anonymous "employee" who may or may not have been a tester (given the information provided, I still wager he/she was no "tester" as they wouldn't be privy to a lot of the financial information).

[Purpus]

December 2006: Sega and Gearbox announce they are remaking the cancelled PS2 version of A:CM
October 2009: Borderlands 1 is released
September 2012: Borderlands 2 is released
February 2013: Aliens: Colonial marines alpha testing begins...
Nobody is talking about pre-order money.. The topic is weither or not Gearbox took the money that Sega gave them to make A:CM and instead used it to make borderlands and its terrible sequel. I am calling bull on the integrity of the "game tester". His claim is that Sega never looked at the progress of A:CM because borderlands was such a smash hit.

[MMMMM]

Originally posted by tmwfte:

Originally posted by General Taskeen:

They funded Borderlands 2 with the ACM pre-order money, not BL1 Link.

Given that most retailers only started accepting pre-orders in December/January for A:CM that would seem to be impossible. What the redditer would be talking about would be the initial seed capital from the contract, not pre-order funds.

Also, keep in mind that this didn't come from Sega directly, it came from an anonymous "employee" who may or may not have been a tester (given the information provided, I still wager he/she was no "tester" as they wouldn't be privy to a lot of the financial information).

SEGA dumped approx 60 million of their money into this game. It has nothing to do with pre-orders gomer. lol