@benn1nat0rI highly doubt bfn actually had 4 years in development as it practically impossible to find any major plans or concept art of the game until about early 2019 when walnut hills was re-released.
This story gets weirder as the subreddit pointed that in code bfn is called gw3 but why?
The story behind bfn development gets stranger and stranger every minute, we could potentially never find the real awnser of what crapshow went down behind the scenes that resulted in bfn being well bfn.
As I said before bfn feels like a Frankenstein monster put together to try and draw in overwatch fans while also pasting over whatever they still had from garden warfare, heck you can even see gw1&2 assets and props in bfn, so why didn't the devs just make a true gw3 over an untested gamble that ultimately didn't pay off, was it because of overwatch's relative success and EA wanted to milk that cash cow just like how they created apex legends to jump on the battle royal stage?
This situation just gets stranger and stranger.
@benn1nat0r , I'm not saying they cancelled the shooter, what looks to have happened is that either they cancelled the adventure game and changed the shooter to be what BfN became, or they merged the adventure and shooter into what became BfN. If they had to change tracks mid-way while working on the game, it would explain why we have so many lingering problems in BfN, and why Founders still felt like an alpha/beta.
@stukapooka I didn't mean the current version of BfN had 4 years of dev time, but what they now refer to as BfN in that one tweet adds up to 4 years with the "new" BfN. I think they did work on a new shooter, but ended up heavily reworking it into BfN. So technically the remark "moved to the BfN team" would be correct, but it wasn't recognizable as BfN at that point.
@Iron_Guard8 Im Sorry, I got that wrong. I just understood that as "there was a cancelled shooter", as everyone online says so and I couldn't find prove of it. It could very well be that they changed direction a year or 2 into development, considering all of the statements above. Another interesting thing is that one of the devs said the cancelled adventure game screenshots were from very early build and that "you should have seen what it became". This implies the prototype was actually pretty far into development.
@benn1nat0r no worries. It was a bit murky even back then, but PopCap were looking for people to work on a AAA PvZ shooter even before we got the last updates for GW2. The GW3 rumors started early and I believe that the launch of OW (which came out after GW2), may have had an effect on the work on that game and why it may have changed tack part way through.
@stukapookayeah didn't the wording specifically say GW3? So maybe BFN's original name really was GW3. They would've made slightly more money if they kept the old name
