I would just like to first say that I do read all sites and I am not for one or the other so much but as of late, I would like to make painfully clear of something that was posted on Kotaku.com and how it feels as with the vague topic info that they just copy and pasted that most the people wont even take the time to read or think about the full article of an other site, in this case shacknews.com/

Now I know this is going to look lazy but lets compare the rumor-mill topic that is not at all old about the good old duke game.

Please read the two and tell me if I am just being dumb or could this have been posted better.

link to the Kotaku page.

and the the original on shacknews.com here.

Now as it seems to me, this is a big deal here.

Some key quote if your going to post any would be
"As of June 2006, 3D Realms had self-funded "99.999% of the game (aside from a very, very small advance from GT Interactive, years ago, before Take 2 bought the game from them)," president George Broussard said at the time. "

And as this is stated, no wonder it took so long to make this game, they where self-funded. Even if this is a lie, there is something fishy here when you have things like this quoted or "on some sites" miss lead.
"Take-Two, which paid Infogrames $12 million for the DNF publishing rights in 2000, has sued the remains of 3D Realms, claiming that it is owed "millions of dollars" as 3D Realms did not deliver the anticipated game."

Last time I checked and I could be wrong so if you know better then I please post so, but Infogrames is not 3Drealms i.e Apogee Software Ltd.

Why would any one expect the $12 million for the DNF publishing rights was going to Apogee Software Ltd? And seems to be and outlandish statment that Take-Two is owed anything.

What is a publisher that does not fun a game they are now suing the maker of said game, I ask you? Lets look at this quote
"After 3D Realms shut down, Take-Two issued a statement that confirmed it had not been providing the studio with "ongoing funds for development of the title."

That is right, an ass hole.

Now lets see what the well "informed" members of kotaku now think

"The game must have taken so long because of how hard it is to put $12 million inside a digital file! "

"Yeah cause this 'spin' completely explains why George Broussard has gone into hiding, and hasn't said a damn word about any of this.

Any company head worth anything would have said SOMETHING by now.

I'm a pretty big fan of Duke... but at this point 3DR can suck it. Like someone else already said above, 'I'm sure 3DR would lie' *COUGHCOUGHCOUGH*. "

"They've been promising a game for 12 years, I'd take anything they say with ample amounts of salt."

"The laziest dev team in the industry expects us to feel sorry for and believe them?

3D realms didn't develop a single game themselves for over twelve years, I'm still all for Take Two milking them for all their worth which honestly probably isn't that much. "

"Well however many millions is owed, if I was a publisher and 12 years down the road no game was produced after countless millions of dollars were invested, I'd be a bit pissed. I wouldn't be surprised if Take Two tacked on some money on the debt as interest. I mean 12 years and no finished game? Seriously, how was this team funded, how many people were on the team and how much were they getting paid a year? 12 million sounds about right. Whatever happens, it would be nice to read a developer like Epic picking up the slack and finishing the game because well, Epic rocks and everything they make is awesome."

With the huge amount of people just yelling out typo, this is the image that is painted when you don't quote what needs to be quoted.

Now I don't know if the blame also lands on the readers but if so that speaks of a growing problem with the user base.

edit: Seems like Kotaku got a direct email from 3D Realms chief George Broussard which you can check out here. that helps clear some more things up, but the same problem remains with the idiot user base with even more retarded comments on the issue at hand.

But I feel kinda glad that it is stated the 3D Realms is not going away, but it is sad to see the Duke Nukem Forever team parting ways, and even more shocking is that they invested over 20 million in to this project of there own money and Take-Two grand total of money spent on the dev part of the game was only 2.5 million.

How do you all feel about that.