Oddworld Creator: "EA Sabotaged Stranger's Wrath"  Oddworld
creator Lorne Lanning accused EA of "Sabotaging" his studio's
game, Stranger's Wrath, in a conversation with Eurogamer.
Lanning says that the publisher, by not marketing the game
properly, condemned it to failure. "It was sabotaged. When you
see a big game coming out, just ask what the marketing budget
is. If you decide as a publisher not to give it a marketing
budget, you decide its fate... As soon as we understood there
was no marketing budget, we had zero expectations. We had zero
incentive to build another game for them, either."  Stranger's
Wrath, a 2005 Xbox exclusive, was generally well-recieved by the
media but was not a financial success. Lanning lamented that
many developers have had their games suffer the same fate. "Our
story is not unique. This is common in the development
community. Business decisions are made and the developer's
faucet is turned off as a result... In the case of Stranger, it
didn't perform because it wasn't exposed and