After Scalebound Cancellation, Producer Leaves The Company

I just want to know what happened!!! I been a fan of these devs and all their work for more than 15 years. WTF happened!!! Who is at fault. We need to know, we deserve to know don't we. Build so much hype around something, that we even invested into. Just to get it shut down with no reason as to why.

He left b/c M$ broke his heart

I know Scalebound was in developmental hell, but I still wanted to play it! Dammit, Microsoft. Sometimes you just need to put your faith into a studio and let them work out the issues. The same thing happened with Lionhead, but far worse. Microsoft is just too averse to any sort of risk or pain, so they jump ship at the first sign of trouble.

I was thoroughly looking forward to Scalebound. With it's cancellation, I'm not looking forward to anything really on the X1. Maybe Crackdown 3 if it ever actually releases? I'm somewhat skeptical of Halo 6 given how Halo 5 was handled. I haven't cared about Gears of War since I never liked the first game. Fable seems to be more or less dead for the foreseeable future. I just don't have anything on my Xbox anymore, and that's a strange thing to say considering it had some of the best games in gaming on the original Xbox and the Xbox 360. So much has changed.

i believed such job-hopping event happened is linked to the cancellation of scalebound, and i think its quite practical to leave the company, because by doing this way he can totally eliminate the possibility that the company will impose the same practice again for the second time, and this will bring a negative impression for his resume and career experience if such worst circumstance happened.

he's going to form or be apart of another studio that has better direction.. or make mobile games with a smaller staff

Hey now people...it was in the best interest of gamers.

well, of course he left due to the cancellation of scalebound. microsoft literally stole his heart and soul and fed it to the dogs. that can't be a good feeling. imagine if all your hard work over the past four years was literally thrown away without cause or a good reason? yea, add to that platinum's current financial state and you are left with a bad situation. i am concerned platinum might throw in the towel at any given moment... but let's hope they can rebuild and get through this difficult time without needing to resort to more activison contracts (i.e. lisensed games like avatar, tmnt, etc.).

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Xbox canceling this along with telling gamers it's for their own good and adding in all the other nonsense Microsoft has been pulling the last few years is like when Donald Trump told the world "no one has more respect for women than he does". At least people with common sense saw through that b.s.

Not only that, it sent a message to Japanese developers that they could be next if they were to ever partner with the un-honorable green dragon from the west.

I want to know why this game was really cancelled.

Contrary to what people are saying, I really don't think that Microsoft would do this on their own account. Something must have been up at platinum games.

Ok Microsoft...take the leftovers of the game,namely the dragons,call Sega and let them make a Panzer Dragoon Drei...instant hit

He should come to Sony. We actually take risks with our ip's and they're a success 80% of the time.

Pitching Scalebound to Microsoft was Kellams downfall. Platinum Games took their fury out on him after the mighty M canceled the project.

You make it sound like he left because of the game's cancellation and then you say its unclear?!!!

If he was involved with Scalebound from the start, i could see how something like that would make someone leave in all honesty.