From the headline I was hoping some execs fell on their sword but nope. Workers get the shaft and higher-ups keep their job to look after the rest of the business.
As always, its the workers who take the fall for greedy executives.
From Daedalics statement they also gained federal funding as well. So I guess the execs enriched themselves with government funding then got rid of the workers after. Thats much worse.
I’ll tell my German partner that they paid for Gollum lol
This doesn’t surprise me at all
I think the devs just bit off more than they could chew with a game type way outside of their norm.
They’re used to making adventure and point and click games not big titles like they were trying to do for Gollum.
Rather unsurprising but of course sucks for the developers. What were the execs thinking?
They were probably thinking they could get AAA game quality and indie game budgets, just by injecting a well known license.
I kinda hate that about companies. The ones who make hairbrained decisions are never the ones who pay the consequences.
Stray pulled off AAA quality on a tiny budget using something loved by a lot of people (cat protagonist) but it had a number of advantages, primarily you don’t need licensing fees for cats, the dev time was deep into “purely a labor of love” length, and I don’t think it came out near any releases of a superior direct competitor. Any adventure epic right now had to contend with FF16 and people still messing around with Tears of the Kingdom.
I think licencing agreements are the death of many games. I maintain that the failure of Cyberpunk 2077 was primarily due to their involvement with Keanu Reeves and I need to bring in revenue to satisfy his Hollywood contract.
They were thinking they’ll get their golden parachute regardless of their effort, and the workers will take the fall, just like they did here, so fuck project quality!
Make money and cut costs. Always the case.
Always sad to witness folks losing their jobs, but I guess we all saw this coming. Here’s hoping they all manage to land on their feet.
That said, I have to wonder what that second game was going to be about. Codename “It’s Magic”, probably something involving Gandalf or another Wizard? 🤔Damn, this makes me incredibly sad. Edna & Harvey occupied my mind for quite a long time and shaped me as a person, even if just a little.
Memoria was the standout game for me. After what you said I might try Edna & Harvey though!
I feel really bad for the employees. Feels like the execs set them up to fail. Hopefully they land on their feet.
Completely unsurprising. How anyone at the studio thought that was acceptable to release is beyond me.
It was a funny meme while it lasted.
Considering that they previously made point and click adventures, this was too big of a swing for them.
just think of all the money that this game had poured into it…and the failure is why the Embracer Group (THQNordic) is cancelling games and re-prioritizing it’s studios.
I’m gonna be livid if my Deus Ex Reboot / 3rd sequel got cancelled because of this…
- EremesZorn ( @EremesZorn@beehaw.org ) English1•2 years ago
Is a new Deus Ex game confirmed? Because I have heard absolutely nothing about that and was under the impression they were done with the series.
Embracer / THQNordic mentioned last year they had interest and basically wanted to do where cyberpunk failed expectations
- EremesZorn ( @EremesZorn@beehaw.org ) English1•2 years ago
God, that’d be amazing but I’ve been burned so many times in the past that I can’t hold my breath.
Not surprising but still sad, of course the people making the stupid choices dont face the consequences. I feel for the employees
Oof. This sucks, it seems that if you don’t have an estabilidade name you can’t have bad “AAA” launch nowadays.
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“established”
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Lusófono detectado.
Autocorrect ratting me out.
Good call, there was nothing worth salvaging of an organization that is responsible for that atrocity.
So no DLC?
I had some hope for this game and thought the premise was of sound mind - however not the timeline moment they chose.
I feel a stealth game done right with gollum as the protagonist could be an absolute success. Unfortunately they didn’t nail this one, not even close from what I’ve read.
Yeah, a stealth game combined with working with Gollums shattered mind could be interesting.
It could basically be a horror game.