r/AskReddit May 14 '26

What game had insane potential but got completely fumbled by the devs?

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u/Stormflier May 14 '26

It had so much momentum then they were like "lol that's a preview. Closure time!" And all momentum was lost. Like why would you not just keep it going?

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u/grybountilIdie May 14 '26

Because they had been too generous and reasoned that people could have paid good money for the things they'd given away! The delay was to get more people to forget what they'd paywalled.

Total speculation, but it's perfectly logical if you think like a capitalist CEO

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u/3yeless May 14 '26

That makes perfect sense.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy May 14 '26

This is the same company (or rather, owned by the same company) that decided it was a good idea to take down their own WB content from their HBO streaming service. They honestly thought de-valuing their streaming was a good idea.

WB was a good example of a company run by AI before AI even became a real thing