Why isn't Dead Island 1 developer Techland making the sequel? — eurogamer.net

Why isn't Polish developer Techland making Dead Island 2? It made the first game, after all. Dead Island wasn't fantastic but it was successful - very successful. In February 2013 the game passed the five million sales mark. Five million sales! And for a new IP! Techland clearly did something right. But what it didn't do was retain ownership of the IP. "Right from the start, the IP was theirs," Techland game designer Maciej Binkowski told me, referencing publisher Deep Silver (Saints Row, Homefront). It was Techland's game, Techland's idea, but it wasn't a strong enough entity as a developer to argue.

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