Yahoo News Lord of the Rings: Gollum developer closing down after nightmare launch
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum developer Daedalic Entertainment is closing down after the game's disastrous launch.
The German developer and publisher released the stealth game to a major backlash, with critics and fans lambasting the game's unfinished state, 2007-era graphics, broken AI, technical issues, use of a generic font in a fantasy game, and selling emotes for a single-player game as paid DLC.
German publication GamesWirtschaft first reported the news, while Daedalic has issued a statement to Polygon.
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"Daedalic Entertainment has made the decision to close its development department, with full focus now on our publishing business. Eight promising releases will be launching in this financial year alone," the statement reads.
"Even though The Lord of the Rings: Gollum did not live up to the expectations we had for the game, we are very grateful for the opportunity and the learning experience it brought us.
"Currently, we are working on another patch for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. A follow-up project in The Lord of the Rings universe that has already been started will be discontinued."
The statement continues: "We value each and every member of our team very much and it is important to us that the transition goes as well as possible. We will therefore support our former employees in finding new opportunities within our network.
"A difficult break, but also a new beginning in the already long history of Daedalic Entertainment."
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is available now on PlayStation 4, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC. A Nintendo Switch version was announced for later this year, it is not know whether that version has been cancelled or not yet.
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