Tequila Works buys back rights to Rime

[Raven]

Tequila Works has chosen to reacquire the rights to its adventure game, RiME, and is working hard to realise its aspirations for it.

— RiME (@RiMEGame) March 16, 2016

[Legend]

That's odd.

[Raven]

That's odd.

My guess, the game is in development hell and Sony wasn't really up for continuing to foot the bill for an indie game people expected two years ago. So they sold the rights back to Tequila Works to recoup some losses. That game would have been a much bigger deal in 2014. Things have changed and indies aren't so heavily relied on now to fill out a roster.

[DerNebel]

Sounds like Sony lost faith and patience in the game. Hope it still comes out and turns out good.

Rumours of course but this would explain the decision I guess.

NeoGAF - View Single Post -  So....Where is RIME??

Originally Posted by Guymelef
 
 

 
 http://www.vandal.net/foro/mensaje/8...-oficial-/2771 Repeat, take this as rumor. Basically... game development is going bad, Sony people in their offices every two weeks... they don't know what to do... test groups say that the thing is boring...

 

Thank you. This sounds very bad. I put it through Google Translate and here is what I got.

Originally Posted by Xilos
 
 

 
 This morning talking with a colleague (discussing things about the Spanish industry and others) told me certain things RIME Secret : (Click to read)

and the game goes horribly wrong every 2 weeks there are people in the office sony to give cane basically you do not know what to do have stage 1 full, but test groups say it is boring and since there are only puzzles in the game you can not attack sun go from one place to another by puzzles xD is a fail because Sony gave them an ultimatum You've invested a lot of money and the game is a meh They filled memory PS4 and were several days until 3 am deleting shame and cutting textures

 

I the person who told me I pretty credibility (the other person and for that ... I do not know XDD)
 

The user has 22k posts so I don't believe that he is making it up. edit: This was posted July 6, 2015.
 

And this, but I really don't how serious I would take this.

NeoGAF - View Single Post -  Tequila Works reaquired the rights to RiME

This game has had some serious issues for a while now from the few things we've heard. I mean everyone was expecting some kind of Shadow of the Colossus/Ico style adventure game but last time I heard about this game it was a MOBA and they were actually scrapping that idea since it was not working out at all. This was only a few months ago if I remember correctly.
 

It's a pity but maybe the game didn't have much more going for it aside from its artstyle.

[Raven]

Sounds like Sony lost faith and patience in the game. Hope it still comes out this year and turns out good.

Rumours of course but this would explain the decision I guess.

NeoGAF - View Single Post -  So....Where is RIME??
Thank you. This sounds very bad. I put it through Google Translate and here is what I got.I the person who told me I pretty credibility (the other person and for that ... I do not know XDD)
 The user has 22k posts so I don't believe that he is making it up. edit: This was posted July 6, 2015.
 

And this, but I really don't how serious I would take this.

NeoGAF - View Single Post -  Tequila Works reaquired the rights to RiME

It's a pity but maybe the game didn't much more going for it aside from its artstyle.

I'd definitely buy that. We haven't really seen anything on the game since it was announced two and a half years ago. Clearly, something was wrong that it was kept out of the public eye for so long until suddenly we get this news.

[the-pi-guy]

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fudge you Soony                

[Raven]

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Pipe down and go play The Order again. Should only take you a couple hours.

[the-pi-guy]

Pipe down and go play The Order again. Should only take you a couple hours.

lol did you see who wrote that?  

[Raven]

lol did you see who wrote that?  

Yep.

[Aura7541]

Pipe down and go play The Order again. Should only take you a couple hours.

Lol, ouch...

NeoGAF - View Single Post -  Tequila Works reaquired the rights to RiME

All this info comes from a source very close to the studio.

 First of all, I was told that the reveal trailer was all cinematic. It was faked to mimic gameplay, assets, etc. from a real game but 0% of the game was implemented.

 So the real challenge for the studio was to put that vision into the final game. And apparently this has been impossible to achieve.

 This words are a direct quote from my source about this news and the studio itself (it contains his personal opinion):

 "Sony required about one month ago the DEV KITs to be returned  and canceled  the fundings into Tequila Works, due of the game had no-sense. Basically there wasn't a game.

 This is a consecuence of the bad studio direction, basically Raul Rubio thinks that he is the next Tim Schafer. The truth is that Raul was fired from MercurySteam. The people from MercurySteam speak really bad about him (the main critics are: he has no idea about games, technology and he has crazy ideas without sense). If you add that his wife is the chairman of Tequila Works and looking for info about her you can find this:

http://www.notariado.org/liferay/web...N=AC&FLAG=MAIL

 You could see that she is public notary in Spain. She hasn't any background making games. The results are, that Rime has no publisher and it is not cancelled due of they got public spanish founds to develop games:

http://www.minetur.gob.es/PortalAyud...lConcesion.pdf

 If you take a look into their website and you compare the hellworkers list with the original team from Deadlight , only a couple guys remains from the original team. If all the team has left the studio, you must think that something wrong there is into the top of the company."

 I'm a bit sad to be honest since i was there in the first days of the studio (not working).
 

[Rorono]

Sounds like Sony wanted to ruin the game and TW wouldn't budge. Kudos to them, will be a much better game this way. I am curious to see how Shu and his mafia ruined TLG too and good thing Team ico is no longer within Sony

[Aura7541]

Sounds like Sony wanted to ruin the game and TW wouldn't budge. Kudos to them, will be a much better game this way. I am curious to see how Shu and his mafia ruined TLG too and good thing Team ico is no longer within Sony

More like Stig's game 2.0

[DerNebel]

Sounds like Sony wanted to ruin the game and TW wouldn't budge. Kudos to them, will be a much better game this way. I am curious to see how Shu and his mafia ruined TLG too and good thing Team ico is no longer within Sony

Jesus I don't understand you sometimes, how did any of the info/rumours we got here lead you to that assumption?

All we're hearing here points to the game either never coming out or being total shame if it comes out.

[Aura7541]

Jesus I don't understand you sometimes, how did any of the info/rumours we got here lead you to that assumption?

All we're hearing here points to the game either never coming out or being total shame if it comes out.

The part where Shu has a mafia made me chuckle, though

[DerNebel]

The part where Shu has a mafia made me chuckle, though

Yeah, Shu's mafia going around keeping Sonys studios from making more masterpieces like The Order.