Lol, wonder how much finished stuff they're still sitting on. They probably had plans to drip feed for years but now they're gonna have to start dumping it fast. That is if they were competent enough to finish anything, we'll see.
I didn't even hear about this and I've been hatewatching the steam chart for two weeks. Guess that goes to show how dead it truly is.
same thing bro, as soon as I saw it on the jiffjeffjeoff awards show I was like in the first second when they showed that BUSSIN haircut and the brownone started to explain to me who and what he is I was like ... CONCORD 2 - ELECTRIC BOOGGALLOO
I just don’t get how ever consumer can almost always accurately predict a failure but studios and investors seem incapable of it. I genuinely can’t think of a game I thought would fail that ended up succeeded. Sure there’s games I don’t like that I wished failure on, but that’s not the same as when I saw battle born, lamentable, hyenas, concord, and high guard, those game I knew would bomb at first announcement.
Might just be the sunken cost fallacy at work in the office, again
I also can't recall an AAA game from the last 3 or 4 years that was highly anticipated by general audiences before release and ended up being a disaster. Slight dissapointments yes, but not straight bombs. The only exception is, maybe, Star Wars Outlaws, which managed to fool people for a time with the fakest "gameplay" trailer of the decade.
Ah, yup, that's the death knell. No porn means nobody's interested. It also means nobody's even bothering messing with the game data to extract models, textures, backgrounds, voices, etc., to muck around with in their degenerate porn scenes.
Even if it does, it's going to shame most of AAA into further despair. If it's technically even half the quality we expect it to be, it's going to shine like a golden statue among miles of shit. No matter if it's pozzed or not (likely is, I don't except to like it).
I can even understand why seeing a million people publicly shitting on the shitty game you helped create probably feels like shit. Including an impending set of layoffs and studio closures. But at the same time Joe Public also understands it's the decision makers, studio heads, executives, directors, etc. that cause the games to be shit most of the time.
The reason they do this is that most of the time games are bad because the devs are bad, the company men and investors just gave them the money to make it bad.
I get what you're saying but the fact it's largely only soy filled retards that work in game studios anymore is part of the problem. You think executives and studio heads weren't retarded back in the day? They absolutely were, and a lot of games sucked, but they still had enough talented people with a vision working on them to occasionally produce masterpieces. What games made in the last 10 years are true masterpieces? I can't think of many.
Because it's a management issue. Random developers/artists/etc aren't hiring more soy retards. Managers, directors, etc. make those decisions. Random devs aren't choosing to have a bulldozing african retard who can't jump or climb in an assassin game, directors, executives, etc. make those decisions. Random artists are not approving models and textures for characters to be put in a game. Again, that's the management making those decisions.
Never said they weren’t also at fault, I just meant it’s not as simple as just “get better managers”. The whole industry down to the lowest paid grunt is effectively rotten at this point.
Starfield was the last highly anticipated bomb. People were itching for that game from the day the trademark was discovered.
Yes, it IS as simple as getting better managers, game directors, executives etc. The entire reason Ubisoft can't do that is because the head retard in charge Yves Guillemot owns enough of the company that he's been fighting against that for a decade including getting his nepobaby kids in charge of the spin-off business that they assigned the AssCreed and Farcry IPs to at the demand of the chinese bugmen in an attempt to get it away from the idiots.
I’ve wondered if it’s self funded, depending on how good the pre-EA purchase stock options were some early Respawn members could've made millions off of the acquisition.
Company men didn't tell the artists to make Mary Jane look like the lead writer.
Neil Druckmann is a dev, not a company man.
The underlings are not some sort of automaton without free will. The successes and failures of a team are principally attributed to the leader, yes, but the individual members get their share of the praise. I'm sure you have no problem with devs putting games on their résumés to make them look better to prospective employers, and you ought to realize that it goes both ways. You might ask what kind of blame do they deserve? Well, the answer is pretty simple, either they didn't know the game was bad and so they can be excused, or they knew but they wanted to keep their job, or they were okay with the state of the game. Ignorance is not plausible for any members of the dev team. Wanting to keep their job is fairly likely, but game dev is a job that people take for creative fulfillment, so staying with a bad company for this reason is not much of an excuse. If they were okay with the state of the game, then they have about as much blame as the leadership. The people who complain about the chuds on social media trashing their game fall into this last category, by the way.
Didn't most people realize it was going to be bad before launch?