Duke Nukem Forever Due This Year?

nz17 writes "Under the original deal, 3D Realms was to receive some $6 million from Take-Two to develop the title. Now the Texas-based developer will receive only $4,250 for the oft-delayed game when it is completed. Just the same, 3D Realms has a fairly large incentive to get Duke Nukem Forever done by the end of the year; Take-Two has offered the studio $500,000 in the form of a promissory note if the game sees commercial release by December 31, 2006."

Comments

quite the paycut

[_Shorty-dammit]

haha, $4,250 for it. Freakin' hilarious! I'm sure I'm not alone in the "like I even give a rat's ass about this supposed game anymore" club.

Re:quite the paycut

[joe 155]

I bet it could be quite popular. There will be loads of people from places like this where it has become a standard joke who will want to see if it can ever live up to the years of hype... I'm predicting a success

Basically

[Umbral Blot]

There are basically three positions you can have with respect to Duke Nukem
1: It will never be released, in which case no, not this year.
2: It is honestly being worked on, in which case maybe.
3: It's about to be done, any day now, in which case yes.
Obviously these positions are rather broad, and one might even say baseless, but that is just the point. We don't have any way to distinguish between them, we can only guess. All we know is that they keep saying that they are working on it and making progress, but honestly that is compatible with all three positions. Personally I hope Duke Nukem will never come out, for if it does I will have to re-write all my vaporware jokes.

Re:Basically

[Enderandrew]

Do you know what would be interesting is a nice definitive interview explaining exactly what happened with the development of this game. I know it switched engines a few times, but come on! At some point don't you just rush it out the door?

I Believe It

[Enderandrew]

Prey went from vaporware to a title that people loved at E3. It is actually going to ship. 3DRealms has to make money to stick around.

DNF will ship. Who knows how good it will be, or what condition it will be in. They can make money after the fact with expansions.

The only thing that surprises me is that 3DRealms is making any money at all after how they have handled this. If I was the publisher, I would have canceled the project and taken it to another development house long ago.

Good Idea?

[fdiskne1]

Is it really a good idea to give a company this kind of an incentive? I mean, if they don't release it by the end of the year, they basically get nothing. If they release it by the end of the year they get a decent amount. Maybe not as much as the original deal but $500,000 compared to less than $5000 is a pretty decent incentive. Are there stipulations as to the quality of the software? I mean, they could just crank out some crappy version or one with way too many bugs, but they released it before the end of the year so they get their money. I'm hoping the contract specifies a few things like this.

Re:Stop holding your breath, it won't be worth it

[ichigo 2.0]

What are you talking about? Gameplay (sadly) hasn't changed a bit in 5 years!

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