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It sounds a little novel if nothing else, I hope it picks up :-)
Man, all business/capitalism/personality-politics stuff aside, it must suck to be a developer, artist, writer, actor etc on something for years, pour your heart into it for a solid percentage chunk of your remaining lifespan on this Earth, and then have it fall flat.
Especially if it's not so much the thing you made, but stuff outside of your control that's holding it back. Lacklustre marketing for example - I hadn't even heard of this.
Yeah, I had to figure out what it really is from Wikipedia and my two reactions were:
And like, yeah, lacklustre marketing puts it quite well. I had heard of XDefiant before, but all I got from that was that it's a shooter, which made me fall asleep immediately.
Had they sold it as "You ever wanted to pit the Splinter Cell guy against the Far Cry bandits?", I would have at least remembered it.
But to be fair, a lot of games are currently coming out. It is difficult to be seen for pretty much all titles...