The developer of Battalion 1944 has introduced all Kickstarter backers will get a full refund no matter platform, pledge tier, or time performed within the recreation.
In an uncommon transfer, Bulkhead Interactive mentioned all 10,096 backers, who had collectively pledged £317,281 to assist convey the World Battle 2-themed first-person shooter to life, will obtain refund directions through electronic mail.
Battalion 1944 was Bulkhead’s first multiplayer recreation, and was made by a group of 18 folks in simply 19 months. Whereas it loved a robust early entry launch in 2019, with quite a few high-profile streamers bigging it up, Battalion 1944 suffered a major drop-off quickly after.
Bulkhead was acquired by fellow UK developer Splash Injury in December, and it’s Splash Injury who helps to supply the funds for the mass refund. Explaining the choice, Bulkhead boss Joe Brammer admitted the studio didn’t ship on its guarantees, together with the discharge of a console model.
“After we launched the Battalion 1944 Kickstarter we got down to ‘recapture the core of traditional multiplayer shooters’. That line linked us to our backers and who financially supported our imaginative and prescient to rejoice every little thing that was nice about that period of shooters,” mentioned Bulkhead boss Joe Brammer.
“Finally, we couldn’t absolutely ship on all that we got down to do, most of all the discharge of the console model. With out that preliminary Kickstarter assist, Bulkhead would not exist in the present day. We need to thank our backers for believing within the challenge as strongly and as passionately as we did – however as we have been unable to perform all of the targets we initially set, we now have determined to completely refund all of our unique Kickstarter backers.”
Richard Jolly, boss of Splash Injury, admitted “there have definitely been occasions once we fell in need of our guarantees, and let our neighborhood down”.
Battalion 1944 is presently free to play on Steam, the place it’s dubbed Battalion: Legacy and has a blended consumer evaluation score. A variety of these opinions complain about Battalion failing to stay as much as its Kickstarter promise, and single out the builders for leaving the sport behind.
The refunds seem to mark a closing of the guide on Battalion for Bulkhead, which is now engaged on sandbox FPS Wardogs and supporting Splash Injury on Transformers: Reactivate.
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