![]() The full story, over on Kotaku, is well worth your time. When asked to comment on the report, Microsoft reissued the statement it released back in February, and the official line is that the reboot of Phantom Dust has not been cancelled. The result of that discussion is already a matter of public record. By the end of 2014, the importance of that plan working was impossible to avoid: Darkside had 50 employees, all of whom were working on Phantom Dust, and no other contracts were being accepted.Īccording to sources, the vertical slice was finished in January this year, and Microsoft, "loved the way it turned out." The following month, Darkside's management flew out to Microsoft's Redmond campus to discuss raising the game's budget to between $7 million and $8 million. The plan was to build a vertical slice of the game, and use it to make the case for extra development funds. However, Darkside's insistence that the $5 million budget wouldn't be sufficient to meet those demands seemed to fall on deaf ears. Online is where the real multiplayer is, and youll have to either play online or buy a third-party peripheral device to earn the last 75 skills (theyre given out randomly as rewards every 30. It can be a lot of fun, but the fact that you can see each others skills kind of spoils some of it. In the months to follow, Microsoft moved the goalposts on "a nearly monthly basis," and generally in a direction that required more staff and more time. Splitscreen is limited to two players, one on one. "But they weren't going to change the budget or the timeframe." "They decided that fans were gonna want a single-player game,"one source said. Just one week later, Microsoft suggested a change of plan. ![]() A deal for a multiplayer-only version of Phantom Dust - "along the lines of Hearthstone and League of Legends" - was struck, with the budget set at $5 million. Phantom Dust was to be Darkside's first attempt at making its own game after years of contributing to other developers' projects. Phantom Dust on Windows 10 won't start Been really hyped to try this, just downloaded, but even after rebooting the game, as well as uninstalling and reinstalling, every time I boot it it just shows me the logo splash screen for maybe two seconds, then closes. However, a new report from Kotaku - based on the testimony of five former Darkside employees - has exposed some important details about how that relationship deteriorated. In February this year, Microsoft announced that it had severed professional ties with Darkside, amidst reports that the studio's entire staff has been laid off. Little was known about the project at that time, and in very few details emerged in the months that followed. ![]() The reboot of Phantom Dust was announced as part of Microsoft's Xbox showcase at Gamescom last year. If you're interested, you can read more about the remaster and how it's different than the original game.Sources from within Phantom Dust developer Darkside Game Studios have attributed the company's collapse to unreasonable demands made by Microsoft. The Phantom Dust remake is available as a free-to-play game on Xbox One and Windows 10. There's a lot more minor changes coming in the update, as well you can read the full patch notes below. The game is also getting voice chat support, as well as an NPC mission guide. At this rate, it'll take at least 11 weeks to get them all for free, although you can buy a pack with three copies of all of them for $5. You can also get a bonus skill for a week if you play four days during the week. Under the new system, logging into the game will get you one free skill per day. As Isgreen explained, "There was no weighting based on what you owned already-it was completely random-leading some players to never be able to earn all the additional skills no matter how many games they played." Before this update, these skills hadn't been available in the remaster. The most significant addition is that of a "daily skill reward system" that allows players to earn the skills that came with the original game's expansion. Isgreen also shared the changes coming to the game on Wednesday. Now Playing: E3 2014: Phantom Dust Trailer at Microsoft Press Conference Some of the expansion skills coming in the update. By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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