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I was never properly trained in game studio operation. Laugh it up, Embracer...
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Motherfucker This. loving hell...
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Jan 29, 2024 19:49
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It’s all in the numbers
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Jan 29, 2024 20:04
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Cancellations? That's terror.
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Jan 29, 2024 20:06
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Embracer sent another one back in a body bag.
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Jan 29, 2024 20:08
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On the plus side: maybe they will sell the IP for a song and then it'll be in the hands of someone who treats it better than Jock treats a warm beer.
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Serephina posted:God, I'd blotted out how HR was just a long series of punching people. What a way to ruin all the other effort that went into making it. Punch Punch Revolution! goatsestretchgoals posted:Thanks for completely forgetting about the upgraded 10mm. poo poo carved up to and until Picus where you could still 1 head shot big augs. The fully upgraded 10 mil with all attachments was godly. One of the few shooters I've played where the pistol remains a viable, even desirable option throughout. Grimthwacker fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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Jan 29, 2024 20:10
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try as I might I just can't get excited either way about DX news that aren't about a remaster of the first and only game. The day will come.
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Jan 29, 2024 20:38
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I know it's the obvious match but I'd love to see an Arkane studios take on DX
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Jan 29, 2024 20:41
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What's sad is that the game was in dev for 2 years already.
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Jan 29, 2024 20:42
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I wonder what that actually means in this case though. Elias Toufexis says he was never contacted about it, so either they were doing a new thing without Jensen or they hadn't gotten very far.
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Jan 29, 2024 20:46
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Grand Fromage posted:I wonder what that actually means in this case though. Elias Toufexis says he was never contacted about it, so either they were doing a new thing without Jensen or they hadn't gotten very far. I think later in the article they said full development hadn't started yet, so likely a lot of pre-production, concept, art, brainstorming, etc.
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Jan 29, 2024 20:47
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Technically it was in pre-production, they were going to go into production sometime this year. Which typically means they might have had some art / assets / basic demo features but nothing that had come together into something resembling a game you could play.
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Jan 29, 2024 20:48
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chaosapiant posted:I think later in the article they said full development hadn't started yet, so likely a lot of pre-production, concept, art, brainstorming, etc. That would make the most sense. Seems weird they'd finally get to make more Deus Ex but just abandon their plotline dangling over that cliff.
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Jan 29, 2024 20:50
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I'd honestly have thought that with the runaway success of Cyberpunk, that more Deus Ex would be a safe move even by a giant evil corporate empire. Alas.
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Jan 29, 2024 20:51
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Eason the Fifth posted:Yeah, RIP
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Jan 29, 2024 21:33
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By popular demand posted:try as I might I just can't get excited either way about DX news that aren't about a remaster of the first and only game. a night dive system shock style remaster would be incredible. also, play the night dive system shock if you haven't, it's insanely good.
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Jan 29, 2024 21:34
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Jan 29, 2024 22:07
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It can't really be... There must be something we can do. It was a good series... What a rotten way to die.
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sebmojo posted:a night dive system shock style remaster would be incredible. i intend to manifest this into reality through sheer force of will.
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Jan 29, 2024 22:19
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Deus Ex has died before, it'll be back gently caress Embracer though
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Jan 29, 2024 23:21
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Grand Fromage posted:I was never properly trained in game studio operation.
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I can tell them you're a game studio and they will kill you.
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Jan 30, 2024 00:04
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I SPEEL MY FUNDING
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Angry_Ed posted:I SPEEL MY FUNDING What a shame  . 
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Jan 30, 2024 01:24
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Angry_Ed posted:What a rotten way for a project to die
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Still January and already checking off "hotly anticipated release cancelled by IP holder for no reason" from by 2024 bingo card. Apparently Volition is getting back together as Shapeshifter, though. Like, this is the thing that is making people notice Embracer.
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Arkane Lyon is also hoping to pick up some Eidos Montreal devs who were laid off, if they're willing to relocate to France. https://twitter.com/DBakaba/status/1752082138059383250
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quote:The Swedish gaming company Embracer Group AB is canceling a video game in the beloved Deus Ex series after two years of development and will lay off a number of employees as part of an ongoing initiative to cut costs, according to people familiar with the moves. This doesn’t even make sense from a spreadsheet business POV. Established franchises come with built in fans who will buy the next one, even if it sucks. Embracer CEO filling in at Activision for a day while normal CEO is celebrating CoD 33 being the first video game to clear $1T: Hmm I don’t know how profitable Call of Duty 34 is going to be. Better axe it just to be safe.
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Feb 1, 2024 10:27
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Hmm we spent a lot of money on these studios but making games costs money, better kill the game projects and downsize the studios so they can make us new money with ???
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orcane posted:Hmm we spent a lot of money on these studios but making games costs money, better kill the game projects and downsize the studios so they can make us new money with ??? Gotta spend money to make money.
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Feb 1, 2024 10:59
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There's a weird idea in business that if you invest 30 million to make 31 million back, that was a bad investment. You have to make 60 million back or your shareholders won't be happy. I've seen people laid off who were literally making the company money by existing, just because they were making money at a lower margin.
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That's not a weird idea at all. 30 bucks in for 31 bucks out a year+ later is probably worse returns than the bank will give you, without all that risk. On the topic of DX getting nixxed, exactly how long do these triple-A games need to be in pre-production? Like, if no assets have been made, no content created... then how much of a loss was there, really? (Apart from everyone at Eidos Motnreal getting fired, that is) The IP's not dead yet?
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People were still tied down to the project and passed on other opportunities for two years, I'd be pissed.
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What exactly does pre-production mean? I thought it is still a lot of work, it basically means to plan the game out enough, in detail, so that everybody in all the departments can show up and know what they should be building. Like if you’ve sunk that much cost over 2 years, isn’t the possibility of a mediocre return appealing? I guess sometimes these companies just prefer to take the write-off?
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brap posted:What exactly does pre-production mean? I thought it is still a lot of work, it basically means to plan the game out enough, in detail, so that everybody in all the departments can show up and know what they should be building. It's the kind of thing different studios will define their own way, but as a general sense pre-production would be planning you do before you're actually making the game. Production is when you're creating art assets and levels and stuff.
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It's an investment company and they don't give a poo poo about what games are being made. Kids/Whales are spending way more on buying skins in online service games than you're willing to pay for a Deus Ex game.
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saw people on The Site Formerly Known as Twitter having fun with photoshopping a tweet of a certain South African nutjob into various sci-fi/horror games. Thought Deus Ex, while not quite horror, would also fit the bill.
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Angry_Ed posted:saw people on The Site Formerly Known as Twitter having fun with photoshopping a tweet of a certain South African nutjob into various sci-fi/horror games. Thought Deus Ex, while not quite horror, would also fit the bill. 
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