TopWare Blacklisting Allegations, Next Two Worlds in 2012

There is a whole bundle of interesting tidbits spread throughout several articles covering allegations leveled at TopWare that they have been blacklisting reviewers, with VG247 doing a good job sniffing them out. You can read quotes given out on this, and while they’re officially denying it, telling a gaming website that their scoring system is broken is not really something a publisher should do. Also revealed in the quotes is that Two Worlds II has sold two million copies to date.

Destructoid also covers the story, and while they offer nothing new James Seaman of TopWare replies in the comments, on various things, including the PC release in NA not being canceled and the next Two Worlds game coming out in 2012.

Hey Tsavo, the actual issue was that site reviewed the game as an average game and did not really come down on it at all. They never mentioned the multi-player, but the issue for our PR guy was their scoring system and metacritics scoring system.

I appreciate your opinion and feel to message me off line as to what you think we need to improve on for our next game. Opinions from the actual players mean a lot to me.

We are trying to do a better job every time and have brought in a brand new 3D modeling, animation and CG team for the next Two Worlds game coming out in 2012.

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Lazyman the PC edition was not canceled. There have been issues with our publisher and the launch of the PC product into retail, but they will have a special edition out in a month at retail and the game is available via Amazon from them or us right now or on Steam or Direct2Drive

We also have the collectors edition on PC on Amazon

I appreciate the feedback, but there will be a special PC edition for the United States soon at retail