Firaxis’s Jake Solomon has given a big thumbs up for 2K as a daring, supportive publisher.
“I’m telling you, with us, we absolutely love 2K because they’re so creatively brave,” Solomon told Rock Paper Shotgun.
“A lot of times I work with them from a creative standpoint, it’s never a question of like ‘Well, what’s the numbers, what’s this and that’. I’ve had a lot of other publishers over the years but with 2K, the conversation is almost always creative, like ‘How are you going to make this work, how is this unique to players, and how are we going to do this and that’. I guess what I’d say is I have absolutely loved working with them.”
Solomon, who serves a lead designer on the upcoming XCOM: Enemy Unknown, said he was thrown by comments from 2K head Christoph Hartmann to the effect that strategy games are not contemporary, because that’s “not representative” of how the publisher approaches developers.
“I’m positive it was simply just an out of context thing because obviously I work with him a lot, and I would say that he has proven with what matters, which is, you know, money where your mouth is,” the designer said.
“He runs one of the largest studios in the world and I know that he has always been deeply supportive.”
Solomon cited XCOM as an example of 2K’s commitment to creative games rather than making money, describing the project as “insane” and “crazy” in terms ...
