System Shock is going to be completed and all of our promises fulfilled. Please accept my personal assurance that we will be back and stronger than ever. We are taking a break, but NOT ending the project, he stresses.

However, Kick makes it clear that the team is not ending development and the remaster will be finished as promised:

I can tell you that I did it for all the right reasons, that I was totally committed to making a great game, but it has become clear to me that we took the wrong path, that we turned our backs on the very people who made this possible, our Kickstarter backers.

But according to CEO Stephen Kick, the team became overly ambitious while working on the project:Īs the CEO and founder of Nightdive Studios, a company that was built on the restoration of the System Shock franchise, I let things get out of control, he says. For those who may have forgotten, Nightdive raised over $1.3 million on Kickstarter for the project from over 21,000 backers. Disappointing news out of developer Nightdive Studios regarding the planned System Shock remaster.

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