According to Danuser, Chafee turned his back on 38 Studios, calling the original loan a bad deal and said the studio wouldn’t receive any more aid unless he was convinced it could become profitable.
”We just needed a little more help, and we thought the state would have our backs on that,” Danuser complained, ”We thought the governor was an ally. It didn’t turn out that way… Why did you do it? Why didn’t you help us? He said a lot of things, he’s broken confidentiality. He’s done a lot of things to materially hurt us and I don’t understand it.”
The loan was originally offered by Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (EDC ) executive director Keith Stokes to lure the developer from its original base in Massachusetts. Last week, Stokes resigned from his post.
Chafee called Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning “a failure,” claiming the game needed to sell 3M copies to just break even.
