I suspect that this decision was more down to naivety than greed, but that doesn’t make it any better. When you’ve been entrusted with millions of dollars and have made promises to those providing it, I like to think that you have a moral obligation to ensure that that money is spent wisely and those promises are fulfilled.
DS have proven themselves to be inept in almost every possible way. Their marketing has been poor and communication with the fans has been blunt and minimal. Every decision they’ve made has served as another way to line their pockets, whether that be coming up with new ways to bleed money from the fans or making deals behind the curtain to screw them over. These practices have been going on there for some time.
Yu should have researched the company before making any deal with them and sought assurances that the promises he made during the Kickstarter campaign would be kept. A quick google search reveals a plethora of dirt on these cowboys and so one can only assume that he failed to do this or chose to overlook it in favor of investment.
I’d still be very surprised if he didn’t sign off on the Epic deal and although I could believe that his knowledge of the modern gaming scene is limited (he’s stated as much himself), I refuse to believe that no one on his team follows the gaming scene and pointed out to him how DS have screwed things up in the past. The deal seems to have been agreed very recently (less than a week ago the release date was still being updated on Steam) and so for nobody on the development team to have noticed the shit-storm caused by Epic’s exclusivity deal for Borderlands 3 again seems very unlikely.
As far as Yu not trying to squeeze more money out of the fans, surely the recently announced season pass is a direct contradiction of that? It’s possible (albeit unlikely) that he had no say in the Epic deal, but choosing to charge fans more money for content produced off the back of a game that they have already paid for seems like a douche move.
Without the support of fans, this game would not be happening. He keeps acknowledging this fact and yet his indifference towards us suggests that his words are empty.
