 According to Lanning in a September 2007 interview, "Wage Wars" was expected to be an online game—the first of two to help promote "Citizen Siege".He explained that his studio was not finished with games; they were not running a game development studio anymore but they were holding onto game licensing for the films they were going to make because they wanted to ensure those games were made how they wanted them to be made, without having to do it themselves.The idea was to develop "Wage Wars" and "Citizen Siege" simultaneously "so that both the linear and interactive elements can launch together."