Video Game Developer Shutdown Watch Thread - Game Company Death Pool

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Who's getting axed?


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Anyway RIP good Monolith, though I'm sure it died a long time ago. Maybe any remaining talent can make a spiritual successor to Condemned or FEAR or any of the other IPs they were forced to leave for dead.
still a lil salty about the fact that they never bothered to port condemned 2 to pc, an eternal prisoner of the ps3/360 era
Could be sooner than you think.
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it's about time, other companies got killed for less than what the fuckers of 343 did
the HALO studios rebranding was offensively retarded, even grove street games was more subtle
These fuckers hate halo. They either want it dead and gone, or they want it devalued until the chinks can just buy it.

Halo is dead, has been dead, and will always from this point on, be dead.
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"we hired people who didnt like halo"
never forget
hope obsidian and netherrealm studios die
everyone in netherrealm studios suck dick for cock and they're proud of it, shameful!
 
The harder the big game developers die, the better the chance for good indy titles to get the spotlight they deserve.
Good riddance to politicized DEI content in games.
I want to see them feeding on the corpses of big AAA companies like wolves pouncing on the straggling elk in the herd.
Based on the massive decline in their stock price, they're absolutely cooked. EA or Microsoft or hell, even Epic might swoop in to gobble up their IP's at any point now.
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They're all eying up the funeral auction of every company and IP at Ubisoft. No one is saving Ubi who is desperately trying to get an organ donor for its self inflicted kidney failure. All the companies could do it, but they'd rather watch them die and take the loot for themselves.
 
Considering they hired the retarded nigger marketing director for Concord to do essentially the same for Halo, I think they will never learn. In fact, at this point I'm sure it's intentional. These fuckers hate halo. They either want it dead and gone, or they want it devalued until the chinks can just buy it.

Halo is dead, has been dead, and will always from this point on, be dead.
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Why are these dumb people still getting jobs?? Couldn't they find anyone who isn't involved in a colossal failure? It's like these failed retards are getting hired on purpose to produce more disasters.
 
still a lil salty about the fact that they never bothered to port condemned 2 to pc, an eternal prisoner of the ps3/360 era
From what I recall the Condemned 1 port was pretty bare bones and kind of jank so I dread to think how low effort a port of the sequel would have been.
Why are these dumb people still getting jobs?? Couldn't they find anyone who isn't involved in a colossal failure? It's like these failed retards are getting hired on purpose to produce more disasters.
That's how CEO hiring has worked for at least 10 years, so I'm not surprised the rot runs through the entire system. It's trickle down incompetence.
 
Considering they hired the retarded nigger marketing director for Concord to do essentially the same for Halo, I think they will never learn. In fact, at this point I'm sure it's intentional. These fuckers hate halo. They either want it dead and gone, or they want it devalued until the chinks can just buy it.

Halo is dead, has been dead, and will always from this point on, be dead.
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It would be cosmic irony if the HALO brand gets revived under Nip or Chink ownership. And manage to do better than 343 ever did.
 
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So what's the consensus on studios that are potentially on the chopping block? If we get a list together we can ping a moderator to put up a poll like they have in the Death Fat Death Pool
 
So what's the consensus on studios that are potentially on the chopping block? If we get a list together we can ping a moderator to put up a poll like they have in the Death Fat Death Pool
Likely: Ubisoft, Obsidian, Bungie, Bioware, Starbreeze

Less likely: Blizzard, 343/HALO

Moonshot: Gearbox, Sony

Lolcow: all three of ZA/UM successor
 
Likely: Ubisoft, Obsidian, Bungie, Bioware, Starbreeze

Less likely: Blizzard, 343/HALO

Moonshot: Gearbox, Sony

Lolcow: all three of ZA/UM successor
@REGENDarySumanai Sorry if this is outside your wheelhouse but you're the first mod I thought of. Can you make a Death Pool poll in this thread with these game dev studios?
 
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My vote's on bungie. If anything it will be a mercy kill because they cannot stop taking shit after starting on the Marathon reboot (that should not exist). This is what you get when you work on an online game for over a decade that wears the tattered skin of funner and more successful games of your past and build up a rabbid fanbase that never calls you out for your blatantly anti-consumer practices.

Also they lied to Sony about their value to get bought by them and now Sony is furious with them, lmao.
 
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My vote's on bungie. If anything it will be a mercy kill because they cannot stop taking shit after starting on the Marathon reboot (that should not exist). This is what you get when you work on an online game for over a decade that wears the tattered skin of funner and more successful games of your past and build up a rabbid fanbase that never calls you out for your blatantly anti-consumer practices.

Also they lied to Sony about their value to get bought by them and now Sony is furious with them, lmao.
Bungie during and after Activision should be a case study on how rabid a fanbase be in defending slop and anti-consumer practices. I still remember the common refrain of the Bungo Defense Force in "but muh evil Activision". Maybe Bobby Kotick had a point in saying Bungie sucks?
 
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My vote's on bungie. If anything it will be a mercy kill because they cannot stop taking shit after starting on the Marathon reboot (that should not exist). This is what you get when you work on an online game for over a decade that wears the tattered skin of funner and more successful games of your past and build up a rabbid fanbase that never calls you out for your blatantly anti-consumer practices.

Also they lied to Sony about their value to get bought by them and now Sony is furious with them, lmao.
You do know that they publicly released some of Chris Barrett's texts to female employees (with their permission) a week or two ago in response to this lawsuit and he actually was engaging in sexual harassment, right?
 
Shame about Monolith, the Mordor games were pretty fun and I wouldn't have minded a Wonder Woman reskin of a Mordor game if it was actually any good. Plenty of decent material to work with provided they didn't pull a Suicide Squad.
That said I can't say I'm really upset about it either. Still, we can only hope this heralds the closure of far more deserving studios.
 
Bungie during and after Activision should be a case study on how rabid a fanbase be in defending slop and anti-consumer practices.
That case study should be Ubisoft. Considering they have been Anti everything since 2004 (at least!) and still have fans. Back when Silent Hunter 3 came out, the developers openly complained that Ubi gave them no support and not enough time to make a proper game - Ubi just fired the employees that complained as response and pucked the game in a barely playable state onto the market. Then Ubi was the sole Publisher who clinged onto that russian shit Starforce as if their life depended on it, even after it became known that this crap 1) infests your PC and can't be removed and 2) destroys disc drives and sometimes even the discs itself. Then they were the first to introduce "always online" for single player games (and back then with Assassin's Crap it didn't work, for 2 weeks the servers were simply down and you couldn't play the game!) and everything else since then. And yet, they still games by the boatload and their fanbase even defends shit like Star Wars Outlaws and Nigger Creed. Also, it's just unacceptable what they did with beloved franchises like Settlers.
If there's one publisher that truly deserves to go to hell with all employees and rot and burn there for all eternity, it's those french fucktards.
 
You do know that they publicly released some of Chris Barrett's texts to female employees (with their permission) a week or two ago in response to this lawsuit and he actually was engaging in sexual harassment, right?
I already know. It's just more fuel for the burning shitshow that just makes it all the more likely that the company gets completely dissolved by Sony.

I don't even think that their next game will be out by the end of this year because they keep showing off the same fucking images from the first day that they publically announced it, or atleast before Joe took out his webcam and made empty promises about what the game is supposed to be, then we got 2 new pieces of concept art and a heavily suggested change of it now being a hero shooter, but not really because of comment section outcry against that idea and "the game is going to be gReAt guys!!!" :suffering:

Even hyped-up megafans have low moral on this game. Atleast destiny fans still get some updates pushed through. It will be the death nail for Bungie if the game tanks.
 
Bioware is the most likely candidate for collapse and bankruptcy. Ubisoft, shitty as they are, simply aren't in the same dire straits. Ubisoft will be bought out and gutted/remade by Tencent, Bioware is going to be shot in the back of the head (figuratively speaking) by EA at some point.
 
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