Yeah, in this case sadly gearbox built a high end verticle slice that would only run on super beefy pc’s. Then they outsourced the rest of the game
To a small company named time gate who had to hastily put together a product based off of that verticle slice, it also had to run on the aging xbox 360 and ps3. It doesnt help that gear box took most of the funds that sega gave them for the game and put them towards borderlands 2
And
then, a class-action lawsuit was filed against SEGA and Gearbox for false advertising so they had to go to court over it, and
THEN, Gearbox somehow wiggled out of the lawsuit while SEGA had to pay out $1.25mil in damages.
Sega provided the court with emails, internal memos, and marketing plans to prove that Gearbox was partially responsible for promoting Aliens.
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Gearbox has been dropped from a lawsuit filed against both it and Sega over alleged false advertising and misrepresenta…
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One of the few cases where a game maker was actually held accountable for misleading game trailers. (And I'd actually argue that it's one of the few warranted cases where fans deserved retribution. Usually, a game is shown several times after that first "target render" debut look, but Aliens never really had that, "OK, here's our
actual product" moment where press was let to play it and a more indicative video runthrough was shown. They did do a tour of the sucky final version , but that was in the final weeks before the game launched.)