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We will be on other PC platforms next year. ‘Human Head and Bethesda Worked In Concert To Sabotage The Launch Of Rune II,’ Alleges Lawsuit You're going to be exclusive on the Epic Games Store for about a year, correct? There was kind of this poetic aspect to it as the original Rune started with Epic, and then Rune II is also going with Epic as well. So we've stayed friends with Epic, we've stayed good business partners with Epic. Epic was for a while, until Gathering of Developers came into the picture, the original publisher of Rune, though it was called Ragnar at the time. And they were like, that's great actually, we want to publish that. That game ended up going away, but we really liked the engine a lot and we liked working with Epic, so we talked to them asking if we could keep using their engine and they said 'Sure!' In fact, we showed them the game that we were working on, Rune. We were using the Unreal Engine at that point, the original Unreal Engine. I don't know if a lot of people know this, but Human Head and Epic have got a really good relationship that goes way back to our first game, or actually when we were working on a different game. It's not Ferrari money or anything like that, as all the money we got, we're putting into the development of the project. One of them was Epic and it was a pretty good deal they offered us. And frankly, we needed more funding, so we went out and did a lot of meetings with different publishers and different potential partners, just trying to figure out who would be the best people to partner with on this. We were getting a lot of great feedback from our fans and from the people in the deathmatch test and we just needed more time. As we were going through that, we, collectively, us and our funding partner up to this point (ESDF), decided that the game needed just a little bit more time to cook. So we wrote a kind of simple form of deathmatch at that point and we were testing it. They originally started as testing out combat, to get a sense of how it worked in multiplayer and so forth. At the same time, perhaps you might want to explain how this opportunity came to be for Human Head and what kind of benefits you're getting.Īs we were working on the game, we originally planned to have the game out a little bit sooner, but we did a number of Closed Beta deathmatch tests before that. I know some folks are not that excited about Rune II anymore because of that decision. Of course, the big elephant in the room is your decision to make Rune II an Epic Games Store exclusive at launch.