Bulletstorm 2 Put on Indefinite Hold Due to Piracy

[Shawn Zipay]

Epic Games and People Can Fly announced today that Bulletstorm 2 has been put on indefinite hold. Fans of the original will be sad to hear how the original sold under expectations and Epic Games is blaming piracy for the lack of a sequel.

"We thought a lot about a sequel, and had done some initial development on it, but we found a project that we thought was a better fit for People Can Fly," he said. "We haven't announced that yet, but we will be announcing it pretty soon."

"I'd love to go back [to Bulletstorm]," he added. "I think there's more to do with Bulletstorm. Heck, it kind of ended wanting more. I'd love to see another project, but right now we don't have anything to talk about."

"I think Bulletstorm was very critically successful, and I think a lot of folks really enjoyed seeing something new," he said. "From a sales perspective it was good, but not amazing. I think EA was hoping we'd do better."

"We made a PC version of Bulletstorm, and it didn't do very well on PC and I think a lot of that was due to piracy. It wasn't the best PC port ever, sure, but also piracy was a pretty big problem."

This is sad news to hear. I loved the original game and I'm sure others would have too if the pre-release demo didn't completely suck and give a poor idea of what the full game is really like.

[Scinto]

Ooh lets blame Piracy for poor PC Sales of our Poor Console Port of Bulletstorm. Perhaps them not making a sequel is a good thing.

[Linux]

Re: Bulletstorm 2 Put on Indefinite Hold Due to Piracy

Ooh lets blame Piracy for poor PC Sales of our Poor Console Port of Bulletstorm. Perhaps them not making a sequel is a good thing.

Not to mention the game got old after about ~15minutes of playing it. The MP of it was fun and then got boring really fast. Overall kinda glad a sequel isn't coming out for this wasn't one of Epic's better games honestly.