told GamesBeat<\/a> in a new interview this week. \u201cWe know we had, without doubt, the worst launch in history. And obviously there\u2019s many reasons for that, but we are planning to relaunch our game now that the interference has stopped.\u201d He added, \u201cThe game is being very well-reviewed. The sales are increasing organically, doubling almost weekly.\u201d<\/p>\nSteam data tells a different story. MindsEye received only 89 new user reviews in the last 30 days, giving it a \u201cmixed\u201d rating of just 67 percent. \u201cNever have I ever had a game where I didn\u2019t only care about the story, but also wanted to finish it so fast because that is how bad this is,\u201d reads one user who recently bought the game while it was 70 percent off. \u201cThe idea and concept was decent I guess, but everything else a big mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Gerhard fesses up to the game being a buggy mess at launch\u2014\u201cWe own that as a leadership team and as a studio\u201d\u2014he still maintains that MindsEye\u2018s reputation as one of the worst games ever was primarily fueled by bad actors trying to intentionally sabotage the studio and its projects. The executive has long insinuated the existence of a conspiracy among disgruntled employees, leakers, and content creators to undermine MindsEye\u2018s launch and now claims the police are pursuing possible legal action against unnamed suspects.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve identified parties involved, and it\u2019s now with the authorities both U.K. and U.S. to deal with,\u201d Gerhard said. \u201cI can confirm that they\u2019re assisting us with this investigation, but it\u2019s also in their hands now. We\u2019ll leave them to do what they do, make their arrests or any announcements in due course. I think we\u2019re not saying anything further at this stage on that. We\u2019ll just let the natural course of justice take its path.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the falsehoods he takes aim at is the idea that MindsEye was one of the \u201cworld\u2019s most refunded games.\u201d \u201cNone of that\u2019s true, just a negative or malicious narrative that was amplified,\u201d he told GamesBeat. The refund rate was apparently 2.2 percent on Xbox and 3.2 percent on PlayStation, which he claimed was in line with most other games.<\/p>\n
The now infamous stumbles of the studio\u2019s debut blockbuster haven\u2019t hampered its ambitions to still ship a \u201cRoblox for adults\u201d called Everything that includes a suite of intuitive game-making tools coupled with a metaverse-like MMO. \u201cHindsight is always 20\/20,\u201d Gerhard said. \u201cWe wish we had more time, wish we had known more ahead of some of this or intervened sooner on certain things. But we\u2019re all human in this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Developer Build a Rocket Boy is pitching a Cyberpunk 2077-style comeback story for its open-world game MindsEye, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[247255,74],"class_list":["post-556851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-mindseye","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}