Mobile Dungeon Keeper Producer: “Go to GOG” if You Want the Originals

This recent hands-on preview of the upcoming Dungeon Keeper title for iOS and Android should prove interesting for long-time fans of the series, though I’m willing to guess the sentiment expressed by Mythic’s producer Jeff Skalski is not what they wanted to hear. To paraphrase, Skalski seems surprised and slightly annoyed at the fan outrage, and urges them to go back to the originals (via Good Old Games, which is no doubt thanking him for this PR faux pas) if they’re not willing to accept the free-to-play mobile-driven successor.

The full quotes:

“If you want to play Dungeon Keeper or Dungeon Keeper 2, go to Good Old Games and download them,” the senior producer tells us.

“I’m not trying to recreate those games. This is not Dungeon Keeper 3. This is not a PC game for mobile. We’re not trying to build the game like it’s 1999,” he says. “We want to make a Dungeon Keeper experience that’s right for this platform, so there were things that we just had to change”.

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We ask Skalski if the angry comments, tweets, and forum threads are demoralising for the developer (which last gave us the enormous Ultima Forever).

“It’s honestly part of the business. We know that any time you touch a classic game, the fans feel like you’re playing with their memories because they’re passionate so they’re very protective of them,” he says.

“Those are your memories with that game, those are untouched.” But he hopes that Dungeon Keeper fans will give his game a shot. “We are doing things differently, but there’s no reason not to download it”.

You might also want to read the full preview to get a better idea of the reasons for the fan outrage, or make up your own mind by grabbing the title on the Canadian App Store, which has seen the title soft launching.

Spotted on Pocket Tactics (via NeoGAF).