EA would 'love' to publish Kingdoms of Amalur 2
EA Labels president Frank Gibaeu says the company would "love to be a partner" for a potential sequel to Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
Despite the collapse of 38 Studios, EA hasn't given up on the Kingdoms of Amalur franchise. Despite reports to the contrary, the company claims it's open to publishing a sequel. Of course, that relies on a sequel actually happening.
"I think it's unfortunate how everything worked out [for 38 Studios]," EA Labels president Frank Gibeau told Game Informer (via Eurogamer). "At the end of the day, we saw a lot of creativity and vision in the team that Curt [Schilling] put together. We thought the game was terrific. It reviewed well. We built a good business there and hope there's a sequel to it someday. We'd love to be a partner for that."
Gibeau's comments directly contradict an earlier report. EA supposedly passed on publishing a sequel due to "executive politics." Though it's unknown if he was referring to EA, 38 Studios founder Curt Schilling claimed they were in "advanced talks" with a publisher until the Rhode Island governor scared off investors. Given most of the devs have already moved on, it's unlikely EA would be able to make good on Gibeau's sentiment.
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EA Labels president Frank Gibaeu says the company would "love to be a partner" for a potential sequel to Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.-
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Ideally it would have been great if somebody could have come in and taken the team who had worked on Reckoning (the people not working on the MMO) along with the rights to the IP and they could have moved right on to making a second game. That's in a dreamworld and probably not even possible. By now though most of those people have already moved on and a new game would be from a totally different team... that doesn't usually end well. That's assuming they couldn't even get the rights to IP.. which I don't quite understand how that would work (does it belong to the state now?). What a mess.
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Yeah, there's some obvious questions of who knew what when. I imagine that EA had some handle of 38 Studios' financial condition, considering that EA received a $30 million advance payment for Reckoning, along with 70% of the revenue.
http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2012/07/38-studios-exec.html
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