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Originally Posted by GraveyardJimmy
From development team comments (about epilepsy filter, working to external deadlines) they have made it sound like it may have been ubisoft rather than 1c that were the cause for pushing it out before it was ready, but I may be wrong.
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Someone from "inside" (Ilya I guess or maybe it was Jason with his "side comments"?) said after the release that Ubisoft had no influence over the project and did not fund it in any way - they are just the western publisher. No money, no power and in that case they could hardly influence the release date - and it was 1C that released it first... The only thing expressed is however that Ubisoft was not involved in the funding, there has been no official word on that 1C funded it - could be some other Russian investor and then 1C just publishes it in the CIS. The late arrival of advertising and information on the Russian 1C site may indicate the later case? Just speculating here - the fact is that whoever financed the game must have misjudged the situation of the code and pushed it out of the door hoping it would run fine with the "zero day patch" and then quickly get in the air after a few more patches. One thing is sure and it's that Maddox Games never would have released it in the state it was a year ago after all that hard work over many years...