Lords of the Fallen 2 Won’t Come Out Before 2017

Speaking with Eurogamer’s Robert Purchese at Digital Dragons, CI Games’ CEO Marek TymiÅ„ski confirmed that the Lords of the Fallen sequel the company is working on is planned for a 2017 release, though the studio will wait to announce a more precise release date until they’re much closer to the actual release of the game:

“We’re taking all of the lessons from Lords of the Fallen 1 to make, first of all, a much better game, and second, to make it more efficient from the production perspective.

“We plan to release the game in 2017,” he said. “We learnt not to say about the release date too early, so we will only be announcing the release date of each particular game when we will be close enough and we will be sure the game will be on time.”

TymiÅ„ski also confirmed that the game has already sold 900,000 copies and that Deck13 won’t be working on the sequels, two pieces of news we already reported on in the past few months, though he was pretty cagey when it came to the reasons that led to the conclusion of the collaboration between the German and Polish development teams.

He did, however, seem to downplay Deck13’s role in the development of Lords of the Fallen a bit, by noting that plenty of assets had been outsourced to Chinese artists and that City Interactive was responsible for the vision of the game. Between these comments and the postmortems for the game alluding to the rocky nature of the collaboration, I really wonder what has been going on during the development of the game, and how this “break up” will affect the sequel.