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I said come in! posted:So the entire studio was closed? just wasnt able to secure funding for the game they were making? Don't worry I'm sure the executives all got nice severance payouts.
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Is that CEO longhand for "We broke"?
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Yes this is the second studio founded by the same guy that has closed in the past month, and in both cases they are blaming whatever is being reported on by Ethan Gach as destroying them? In the case of the other one, Crop Circle Games, they just abruptly replaced the company's site with a letter attacking Gach. Jeff's wife and business partner Annie has MS and I know that must be really difficult but they are also kinda melting down over everything in public and all their employees are getting nuked https://twitter.com/gamedevdotcom/status/1772285059556401400 Edit: at this point they just took down the site entirely but the letter is still on the wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20240405185134/https://cropcircle.co/ 
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Apr 12, 2024 18:55
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it's a classic bit of rhetoric where you put two true statements next to eachother ("we met with our partner to discuss the leaks" and "we mutually agreed to cancel the project during the meeting") without directly linking them in any way, creating the implication that A led to B without technically lying about anything. huge scumbag energy radiating off this dude just from that alone
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Apr 12, 2024 18:58
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Just understand that it's definitely not his fault.
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lol throwing your employees under the bus is always 100% bitch rear end loser behavior.
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Apr 12, 2024 19:06
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Looks like the real "Strain" here is with your plausibility, Jeff!
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Vermain posted:it's a classic bit of rhetoric where you put two true statements next to eachother ("we met with our partner to discuss the leaks" and "we mutually agreed to cancel the project during the meeting") without directly linking them in any way, creating the implication that A led to B without technically lying about anything. huge scumbag energy radiating off this dude just from that alone sounds like big important ceoman is lying to himself that it's all the drat  journalists' fault too, not just lying to his employees
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Guy must be a vampire because he cant see his reflection when pointing.
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Jeff's wife Annie Strain posted this unhinged letter after closing another studio in their sham company last week: https://twitter.com/imranzomg/status/1776033395040301372  This pair really seems like they deserve one another.
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to rub more salt in the wound, the cancelled Project Vonnegut might have been a Shadowrun game for Xbox Games Publishing, going by rumors from a couple years back https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/qrqpld/on_grubbsnax_jeff_grubb_claims_that_xboxs/
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OK now lets hear from the employees they just left out to dry, with 0 notice they've been fired, if they share the same sentiments.
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In hindsight, this one dude spinning up 4 studios in a couple of years and all of them proud to announce they're working on vaguely defined "AAA games" should have raised some eyebrows. If you're working at "Fang and Claw" or "Dawon" you hopefully have an escape plan lined up https://dawon.games/ https://fangandclaw.co/
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AngryBooch posted:Jeff's wife Annie Strain posted this unhinged letter after closing another studio in their sham company last week: "the game did not have core features that have emerged as requirements to be competitive in today's hyper aggressive market" so sounds like despite all the weird bits trying to spin this as the fault of AI or kotaku reporting on the CEO's multiple sclerosis (why did she jump right to assuming the article would be about that rather than the game? ) they actually failed because they couldn't find any publisher leeches willing to support a game without live-service or mtx or something.
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I said come in! posted:lol throwing your employees under the bus is always 100% bitch rear end loser behavior.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:"the game did not have core features that have emerged as requirements to be competitive in today's hyper aggressive market" they could have failed for any number of reasons; "the game did not have core features that have emerged as requirements to be competitive in today's hyper aggressive market" is such an aggressively vague statement that it could mean anything from "we didn't have MTX" to "publishers didn't think our chosen genre had marketability", and it may well still be a dodge to avoid the harder truth of the game just not being fun and them being unable to find a way out of that design hole the important thing here is that you could say that in, like, 250 words tops, and pumping out a meandering soliloquy that weaponizes her illness for sympathy is not the appropriate statement to make when you're shuttering an entire studio with no severance
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AAA! Games!
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Waffleman_ posted:This reminds me of the Scarface game which takes the original's ending being a statement on the inevitability of your own downfall when you work in the shadows and said "well that doesn't work in a game so gently caress that Tony lives gently caress yeah crime" The Scarface video game is good even with how oddly the difficulty swings from "asleep at the wheel" to "you need to manage your resources as close to perfect as possible in this encounter or else you just lose"
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Waffleman_ posted:AAAHH!!! Real Games
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Infinitum posted:Is that CEO longhand for "We broke"? broke under the Strain
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what the hell is this company? some kind of fly by night publisher?
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Yaoi Gagarin posted:what the hell is this company? some kind of fly by night publisher? it's ostensibly a big tent company with several subsidiary studios under its umbrella ala ubisoft, but it's looking more and more like a vanity project for a guy with an overinflated ego and an addiction to trying to run a media empire. like, i'm no business genius, but maybe you oughta finish actually releasing one game first before you start up four separate studios making four separate games
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Jeff and Annie Strain started spinning up studios in Spring of 2021 under the Prytania Media label. Based on the studio sites (including the ones only on the wayback machine now lol): Possibility Space was making "games around a genuine human experience, while also continuously pushing the envelope on modern gaming technology" Crop Circle was developing " a powerful new game built around the pillars of hope, humor, and human empowerment" They actually have two more studios that were started last summer? So who knows if they will have a bit more time or if they're gonna be shuttered soon too: https://fangandclaw.co/ Fang and Claw is making a "player-centric AAA game... that push the boundaries of interactive, playful strategic sport" https://dawon.games/ Dawon Games is a "AAA studio creating mobile-first games on a global scale" Edit: importantly literally none of these studios released any information about anything they've actually worked on... i didn't realize it was this long until austin walker wrote it down lol https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/1778898508432412855 CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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Player centric AAA games because people are so sick of the AAA games that just have attract mode and no way to press start
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I'm sad this game never came out because I'm fairly certain it would have contained levels of cringe not seen since yiik
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Jay Rust posted:I guess i still don't know what AAA means It's the smaller batteries
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Zokari posted:i don't know why you would insist on playing those unless you were a yakuza superfan who just wanted to see them what's wrong with wanting to see a series through at its beginning? the most fun part about diving into a new one is watching systems evolve each iteration. imagine then the awkwardness of going from the first however many remakes to then remasters back to current day. sure chronologically thats fine but there's more to a video game than its story
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starting the metal gear solid series with metal gear was a great decision. funny knowing kojima reuses the shut off the console gag twice
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a groovy, shagadelic international man of mystery
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credburn posted:Who is Austin Walker and why do people like him? I don't op.
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credburn posted:Who is Austin Walker and why do people like him? I don't particularly like him but he is/was a games journalist with a podcast who talked a big game about social justice on twitter
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Jay Rust posted:I guess i still don't know what AAA means games that when you play them make you go AAA
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credburn posted:Who is Austin Walker and why do people like him? One of the lesser giant bombsmen
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