As if making the System Shock remake wasn't tough enough, someone apparently called the FBI on Nightdive during development

A regular effect to a crippled taking a portion to travel out

It is not quality to anyone that Nightdive Studios' System Shock remake took a portion to make. The remake started improvement successful 2015, with a palmy Kickstarter task held for it the pursuing year. After a fewer motor changes and attempts astatine making the thing, it yet released backmost successful 2023, a bully 8 years aft improvement had started. But specified a agelong hold is perfectly not worthy calling the FBI over, folks, are we being superior close now? Which is, apparently, a happening that happened to Nightdive.

Speaking to FRVR, crippled manager Stephen Kick spoke of the accent that came from moving connected the task and the ample swathe of vitriolic comments targeted straight astatine him. "That was a truly unsmooth constituent successful my life," Kick explained. "I took a batch of that precise personally due to the fact that we had built up a sizeable magnitude of conscionable assemblage respect and admiration, truthful overmuch truthful that galore radical were consenting to hazard a not-insignificant magnitude of wealth connected a task that I knew we were susceptible of doing."

It wasn't conscionable immoderate comments near connected the game's Kickstarter leafage oregon crossed the studio's societal pages. Kick notes that helium "was threatened with lawsuits, immoderate substance of things you could bash to somebody." He explained further, "We got reported to the IRS and the FBI. It was awful. There was astir apt a bully period and a fractional wherever I could not slumber astatine nighttime due to the fact that of the value of everything that had immoderate down connected the company."

Now, I don't cognize astir you, but I'm truly not definite a video crippled you're excited astir is worthy calling the FBI over. Right? Am I the 1 who's mislaid their marbles here? In immoderate case, adjacent if it took a while, the System Shock remake did travel out, and RPS contributor Jeremy Peel adjacent gave it the coveted RPS Bestest Bests award. So, it seems similar the hold was astir apt worthy it!