
Incidentally as of 2021, both are owned by the Embracer Group. Though Gearbox still kept a firm hold of the IP while the new owner of the 3D Realms IP moved on without Duke. Franchise Killer: Going through one of the most infamous examples of Development Hell in entertainment history more or less put a handicap on the game right away when it finally was given the green light to stores, and the flaws that came out in spite of the "Perfectionist" attempts led to not much being said about Duke after the game was wrapped and Gearbox moved on.Follow the Leader: The biggest criticism of the game (arguably except the sexism) is its similarities to other modern shooters, in spite of including several Take Thats against said games.2K Games' policy of forbidding the inclusion of modding tools made modding difficult. The 14-year long mess nuked Broussard's career, as 3D Realms still exists and is making retraux-style games without him.
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3D Realms was dissolved in 2009 and development rights were passed on by Take-Two to Gearbox Software the following year in hopes that the game would actually get out the door. The constant delays (which got so bad that circa 2003 the developer changed the release date to "When It's Done") drove publisher and parent company Take-Two Interactive nuts, and they had to resort to threatening lawsuits to get Broussard's team to speed up, following through with the threats in 2007. Wanting to keep his beloved Duke as perfect and up-to-date as possible, he went on a decade-long self-appointed quest to apply everything he found interesting into the game, to the point of buying the licenses for entire game engines to force his employees to work around them (an act Zero Punctuation compared to a man trying to build a house opposite a boat as it sailed down a river).

It is locked out of Steam's usual language-selection options, as well as any patches and DLC, because the localization company and 2K Games cannot agree on whose responsibility it is to adapt them for the locked-down Russian-only release. Bad Export for You: The Russian version of the game is a separate Steam entity.
Approval of God: In addition to the engine, Epic Games gave 3D Realms permission to use some Unreal Tournament levels as a base to create Deathmatch-exclusive levels, which is why the 2001 leaked beta has Deck #16 as a Dukematch level.
