Bethesda Quiet About Prey 2 Because The Game Isn't Good Enough...Yet

LOS ANGELES, June 18 (Playnews) - The absence of news regarding Prey 2 coming from Bethesda since April 2012's statement of delay is attributed to the game simply not living up to Bethesda's standards, the publisher's VP of PR and marketing Pete Hines told IGN in an interview during E3 published on Tuesday.

“We appreciate that folks are displeased that we haven’t had any update or any info on Prey 2, but whatever your displeasure is, you can’t even be remotely as unhappy about it as us,” Hines said. “We spent years and millions of dollars and a ton of effort trying to help Human Head make a great Prey 2 game. What we said the last time we said anything was that it’s not up to our quality standards."

"We’ve been very specific about why, and we’ve been very specific about the whats. When that gets addressed and changed or whatever, at that point we can give an update. But nobody’s disappointment is greater than ours," he continued. "We spent a lot of time and money and effort trying to make this thing happen and support folks, but at the same time, you just can’t keep throwing money at it and saying, ‘sure, it’ll eventually work.’ You have to have the discipline to say, ‘it’s not good enough. It’s not hitting the quality bar. Why isn’t it? We’ve been at this for a while, and what we have is not what we talked about.’ So that’s where we are.”

On the "leaks" and rumors coming from developer Human Head, Hines discounted it as "somebody putting [a] spin on it". "That’s your version of what you think happened. I haven’t heard from anybody yet that actually sat in the room," he said.

“It’s great that people have passion for something that we’ve talked about,” Hines said about the fans vigilantly interested in the franchise. “I understand that, in general, there’s a lot of cynicism about the developer versus the publisher. But sometimes you just have to step back and be practical about it. What is the chance that we have some amazing, unbelievable game and we’re just not talking about it for no reason? Zero. This is a business. We do have bills to pay and people to employ. They have families that they would like to provide for. You don’t just keep throwing money at something or going down a path that you’re not happy about. You have to make tough choices. Again, when we have more info on it, we’ll be happy to talk about it. That’s what I can say for now.”

SOURCE: IGN