Ex-2K Boss On What Went Wrong With Battleborn, Evolve, And Spec Ops: The Line
As part of GameSpot's wide-ranging profile interview of game development veteran Christoph Hartmann, who now heads up Amazon Games, the former president of 2K Games shared some stories about his career missteps. These included games like Evolve, Battleborn, and Spec Ops: The Line not living up to expectations, for one reason or another.
Hartmann told GameSpot that, later in his career, he made safer and more conventional decisions, driven in part by pressure to deliver, and they didn't all work out.
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«Life gets more complicated when you get older; it's all great when you're in the 'building' mode where everything is an opportunity. And then you build a company that is much bigger than you expected you ever would build. You know what kicks in? 'I could screw it all up.' And then you start making bad decisions,» he said.
2K parent company Take-Two acquired Evolve out of THQ's bankruptcy auction. Hartmann said he felt pressure from above that the new game from the creators of Left 4 Dead wouldn't be a sales success. Among other things, Hartmann said Evolve should have launched as a free-to-play title. The game--which featured four players as hunters and one as the monster--generated positive buzz at E3 and Gamescom back in 2014, but the game didn't strike a chord upon release.
Hartmann said he felt pressure to convince the team to add a PvE element to Evolve after Titanfall's PvP-only approach «didn't work» in the executive's eyes.
«The game was just PvP, and I felt like we had
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