well, that sucks. It's a pretty bad state for the industry when you can't break even on a game that sells 1.2 mil. Dev costs NEED to go down. It also would have helped if they hadn't sank a lot of money into that MMO.
Entire 38 Studios Staff Laid Off, Effective Immediately
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And now I feel like an asshole.uncanny474 said:
Seriously, for what it's worth, my condolences to the people who don't deserve to be screwed over by this, but who are being screwed over regardless. Being unemployed sucks. Best of luck.
.....aw man, I loved Amalur, I'm doing another play right now and I just bought all that DLC 
Sorry lads. If it makes you feel better, I bought it on pre-order, I thought the demo was that fun.
Sorry lads. If it makes you feel better, I bought it on pre-order, I thought the demo was that fun.
That really sucks. I wonder if BHG will be able to re-form from the ashes or if they'll just go their separate ways.
In before "They made a game that sucks therefore deserved to be fired" comments start drowning the thread.
This is of course terrible and no one ever deserves to have their job pulled out from under them, but I'm not really surprised. It's similar to Team Bondi's story.
KoA was good, but not great. It felt like an amalgamation of every western RPG rather than its own game. Still, 1.2 mil is nothing to sneeze at. It's a little disconcerting, considering companies have sold less and still stayed in business. I'm wondering if there's something else to this story that we don't know about.
KoA was good, but not great. It felt like an amalgamation of every western RPG rather than its own game. Still, 1.2 mil is nothing to sneeze at. It's a little disconcerting, considering companies have sold less and still stayed in business. I'm wondering if there's something else to this story that we don't know about.
I said "In before". Before you start throwing insults around, I suggest you learn how to read.Crono1973 said:
What a shame. Seems name dropping can only get you so far...
I enjoyed the game, they just banked too much on the Amalur franchise. The market doesn't need another fantasy-themed MMO.
Shame, shame, shame.
Seems name dropping can only get you so far...I enjoyed the game, they just banked too much on the Amalur franchise. The market doesn't need another fantasy-themed MMO.
Shame, shame, shame.
I heard a lot of good things about Amalur, and it's on my list of games that I want to play. It sucks that an entire company went under due to the game, despite the fact that I heard that, all things considered, it was alright.
Hopefully, they can get some jobs in this rough economy. Good luck to all of those guys!
Hopefully, they can get some jobs in this rough economy. Good luck to all of those guys!
My condolences to the employees that are now laidoff and it's a damn shame that a company with potential had to wither away and die like this.
That said, what a bunch of dumbasses starting on an MMO project. They release one game and with barely any sort of fanbase they're already off and away with an MMO project, a genre that is completely saturated, has seen numerous failures/mediocre turnouts in the past year alone, and if the project ever went through I guarantee you it would just be a big, worthless flop. Bit off more than they can chew, methinks.
On top of that, if a game selling 1 million+ units in only a few months still results in the company completely and utterly falling apart, something is wrong with this industry and it needs to change now. One, developers/publishers need to stop making stupid decisions and two, they need to control this ridiculous budget fetish that this industry has, pumping everything with millions upon millions of dollars when it can be achieved on a lower, more efficient budget if they plan right.
I guess I'm just in a mix of disappointment, annoyance, and bewilderment. It's a bunch of ridiculous things wrapped into one; a brand new studio with a hugeass multimillion budget title that still doesn't sell enough and a studio tackling the MMO genre as if they have the resources to do so. Too often we have seen studios shut down due to this kind of crap. This needs to change.
That said, what a bunch of dumbasses starting on an MMO project. They release one game and with barely any sort of fanbase they're already off and away with an MMO project, a genre that is completely saturated, has seen numerous failures/mediocre turnouts in the past year alone, and if the project ever went through I guarantee you it would just be a big, worthless flop. Bit off more than they can chew, methinks.
On top of that, if a game selling 1 million+ units in only a few months still results in the company completely and utterly falling apart, something is wrong with this industry and it needs to change now. One, developers/publishers need to stop making stupid decisions and two, they need to control this ridiculous budget fetish that this industry has, pumping everything with millions upon millions of dollars when it can be achieved on a lower, more efficient budget if they plan right.
I guess I'm just in a mix of disappointment, annoyance, and bewilderment. It's a bunch of ridiculous things wrapped into one; a brand new studio with a hugeass multimillion budget title that still doesn't sell enough and a studio tackling the MMO genre as if they have the resources to do so. Too often we have seen studios shut down due to this kind of crap. This needs to change.
Meanwhile EA is still profiting. Oh yes people, continue to tell me how fine the industry is doing and I'll continue to tell you just how fucking wrong you are.
I think this is really the first studio going out of business that makes me sad. I really enjoyed KoA, and was looking forward to more games set in its world. Sadly they were just determined to make an MMO, that was what Reckoning was supposed to be after all. My best wishes to all those employees. Chalk another great game up to the unforgiving maw of the industry. I would hope someone picks up the IP and continues it on, but with that comes the risk they'd just turn it into some awful crap fest without the soul of the original.
Nope, in Australia you would know it as being made redundant, which carries with it a lot of other entitlments and obligations. Being fired you just get paid your notice and that's it. By firing the staff they have saved a lot of extra money on entitlements that the would have otherwise have owed. So they are getting screwed twice.Caffiene said:
That's how it would work here in Oz anyway. But then again we have a decent living minimum wage among other things so it could be different in the US
Don't you have to have done something to be fired over here though? I always thought it was illegal to just fire people with no cause, i've had friends that have sued employers and won for that very thing.SeatedSkeleton said: