“In the days of the Roman Empire, developers would go through decimation, with every 10th losing their head. They are lucky to live in these enlightened times when they only lost their jobs.What kind of "cuts" are more "devastating" to a studio than being "closed"?
If I'm in his position,I'm getting the fuck out of there as soon as I can anyway. Microsoft just sent a message to all their studious and developers and the message is "even if you put out well received games that sell decently we might close you"
That doesn't say anything about his capabilities at caring for his team.
One bad game should ruin a studio?
It was already a shell of a studio after it's senior creative staff left. Probably was given time to finish ports before disolving.
This is a bad faith argument. MW3 got crappy scores because Activision put out what was basically a small DLC for MW2 and decided to call it MW3 and charge full price for it. From a technical standpoint, the game is fine, Redfall on the other hand is technically atrocious, like it was made by amateurs.That logic doesn't work because you see crappy ass games like this that sells tones of copy.
Is it because game is good? NOPE it because it has mass appeal and thats it.
By your logic only mainstream games with zero creativity need to exist in order to make money.....Fuck creativity right?
Why? This isn't China. He also has people under him, that now probably has more respect for him, as their boss, for speaking out on their behalf.
Shield him? I expect Phil and Matt B to be the first ones plotting his exit
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Microsoft closed them because they had reasonable expectations of what the next 5 - 7 years of Arkane Austin would produce.
In talent-driven industry Microsoft is awfully careless with, you know, managing talent. It's not always about business process or bottom line. The Initiative supedev idea just fell through, Prey devs are gone, the only first-party dev (with recent 90+ meta game) in Asia closed on a whim. Hell, even Sony kept Media Molecule afloat after the round of massive lay-offs, because you need core talent to sell hardware and some ideas are taking their time to hatch. Helldivers 2 took Arrowhead and Sony 7 years and so strong that it still alive after a massive blunders on Sony's part.
Maybe they actually have difficulty assessing talent.
And that's because of one bad game. Very reasonable, indeed.
Neither were they for Tango Gameworks, a studio that didn't had a bad game on record.
The mass-Industry fallout on their decisions means they are tone deaf. As are posters who call any of these studios the worst or other funny syllables.
"Bad game" is any game the market doesn't want to support.
And shouldn't be an incentive to just close a studio based on that one game.
Based on this logic Microsoft shouldn't make and bad moments or they should be taken over. But here we are.
they made two games prey and redfall. both were failures. the other arkane games you know of weren't made by themThat doesn't say anything about his capabilities at caring for his team.
And yea, seems to me that you as a studio may have some confidence in those who own you that they don't just drop you because they are Matt Booty.
One bad game should ruin a studio?
In what universe was Prey 2017 (Quick Google says 1.3 million sold) and a 82 on Metacritic for PC (PS4 has a 79 and XBO has a 84) a failure with these numbers?
Because it made no money
Feel free to source that it generated no profit when it sold 1.3 million.
1.3 million is a commercial flop?
thanks for this. according to wikipedia, arcane austin was 6 years between prey & friggin' redfall? man, i had no idea...
For a game like Prey, absolutely. Prey went through a lot of development struggles and in order for it to be profitable Bethesda would need to make all the money back that was spent on the other Prey game they were publishing that got canceled. Also, it's important to remember that sales numbers don't tell you what price the game was purchased at. 1.3 million copies sold of a game during launch month is great but 1.3mil copies sold over the span of several years isn't good.
Colantonio and others left a while ago.
I believe others have corrected you, but Bakaba is at Arkane Lyon, not Arkane Austin.
This might indicate that Bakaba’s Northstar is not corporate ladder climbing and politics. Rare, but people like that exist.
No accounting for taste.
Bakaba and his team did not make Redfall. He is at Arkane Lyon.
Prey is better than all of your favorite games combined. Play better games, please.
