Prey manager Raphaël Colantonio has said developer Arkane Studios was forced to usage the Prey sanction by Bethesda, contempt his disagreement and feeling "gross" by utilizing it.

Speaking connected AIAS Game Maker's Notebook podcast (and spotted by Kotaku), Colantonio said that utilizing this sanction was disrespectful to 2006's Prey - which was a wholly antithetic crippled made by a wholly antithetic squad and company.

"Calling Prey Prey, that was precise very hurtful to me. I did not privation to telephone this crippled Prey, and I had to accidental I wanted to anyhow successful beforehand of journalists," Colantonio said. "There is simply a spot of the artistic, the originative broadside that is insulted erstwhile you archer this artist: 'You cognize your game? It's going to beryllium called Prey.' And you spell like, 'I don't deliberation it should. I deliberation it's a mistake'."

Calling it Prey was besides detrimental to the game's sales, Colantonio said, due to the fact that fans of 2006's Prey - a first-person shooter astir an ex-soldier being abducted by aliens - would protestation Arkane's crippled and those who disliked the archetypal wouldn't look doubly astatine it.

"It was besides a footwear successful the look to the archetypal makers of Prey," helium continued. "I wanted to apologize to them many, galore times. I didn't truly person a accidental due to the fact that I don't truly cognize those people. It was ne'er our volition to bargain their IP and marque it ours. It's gross and that's not what I wanted to do."

Colantonio near Arkane not agelong aft Prey was released successful 2017, citing the sanction debacle and wide disagreements with absorption arsenic 1 of the reasons for doing so. While Prey was received good by critics and players - IGN said it was great - Colantonio commented that its income were mediocre and the franchise has been dormant since some DLC was released successful 2018.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll speech astir The Witcher each day.