Daedalic Entertainment: Exit from the Video Game Industry Following the Downfall of Lord of the Rings: Gollum

It has been rumored that Daedalic Entertainment. The firm responsible for the Lord of the Ring: Gollum video game, will no longer work in the industry. The publisher Nacon and the developer Daedalic revealed the next stealth adventure starring Gollum in 2019. After suffering from several setbacks, the game did not fare well with critics upon its first release earlier this year.

The finished product was so defective that the developer, Daedalic, felt the need to apologize. The apology addressed the performance issues, substandard aesthetics, and several technical faults in the game’s final version. However, despite the pledge to make things right, saving the game in such dire straits was impossible. The downfall of Gollum has resulted in a change in the way that the 16-year-old studio will operate from this point forward.

The Lord of the Rings: The Hobbit’s Gollum Studio will no longer produce video games

According to recent reports, Daedelic Entertainment will withdraw from the video game industry as a development studio. This information comes from a statement taken directly from the German website Games Wirtschaft and translated by Game Developer. According to reports, the production company sent a statement to the publication stating that it had reached a “difficult turning point.” Following the rollout of LOTR Gollum, which was met with a hostile reception.

Games Wirtschaft asserts that the company would now concentrate its efforts on publishing and marketing operations due to the fiasco involving Gollum. As a result, Daedelic has concluded that it is no longer financially viable to continue developing video games. In addition, there are rumors that the company let go of 25 employees. Equivalent to nearly a third of its personnel, consisting of only 90 or more programmers. And as a consequence of such a reorganization. Another Lord of the Rings-branded video game was scrapped before it could be released.

The second Lord of the Rings project that Daedelic was working on was rumored to be a sequel to Gollum, but the band never officially announced it. Concerning the existing Lord of the Rings video game developed by the studio. There has yet to be an official comment on how the restructure would influence future support in the form of patches intended to repair the technical issues with the game.