Firaxis pulled out all the stops to let a dying fan play Midnight Suns

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Firaxis pulled out all the stops to let a dying fan play Midnight Suns
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'They put all workloads and personal plans aside and worked solidly over that period to achieve what should have been unachievable, on behalf of a complete stranger'.

released last Friday, but one fan got his hands on it more than a year before the rest of us. A report fromhighlights the story of Luke Wiltshire, a terminal cancer sufferer in the UK, and the lengths that Firaxis went to in order to get a working build of Midnight Suns into his hands before he died.

As a lifelong Marvel fan and videogame player, Firaxis' social/tactics hybrid was a dream come true for Wiltshire, the only problem was that its release was over a year away at the time, and he didn't have that long left. They pulled it off in a day, creating a working build of the game's first act for Wiltshire to try out, which was hand-delivered to him on a gaming laptop by 2K social media manager Asim Tanvir. During the session, he got a chance to share a few of his own comic designs with Marvel Games creative director Bill Rosemann, and devs from 2K and Firaxis dropped in on video calls—at about 3 am their time—to chat with him too.

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