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It's a shame, but also unsurprising. I have a soft spot for Sam and Max and Monkey Island so I'll probably rescue them off my account before their servers go down. Everything else I got won't be missed.
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Buck Wildman posted:It's a shame, but also unsurprising. I have a soft spot for Sam and Max and Monkey Island so I'll probably rescue them off my account before their servers go down. Everything else I got won't be missed. This is exactly reflecting my feelings and my general suspicion on how they ended up being here. They first made money making legit adventure game series and instead of developing anything of their own, noticed that milking the flavor of the year easy money from already popular stuff with a forgettable and quickly thrown together side story-product was lucrative. At least more lucrative than salvaging old-school Adventure game IPR's or coming up anything of their own. How hard can it be to come up with a cartoonist and draft up "originalish" content? Even as a side-product to test out things and train newcomers until something sticks to the wall?
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Final season ep 1 and 2 were better than anything since season 1. Disappointing
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Buck Wildman posted:It's a shame, but also unsurprising. I have a soft spot for Sam and Max and Monkey Island so I'll probably rescue them off my account before their servers go down. Everything else I got won't be missed. I strongly doubt their catalogue is going to completely disappear; if they don't get bought out/acquired (I'd bet by 2k, WB, or Ubi), then they'll have to go bankrupt, and when that happens the licensed IP games and their assets will probably go to the IP owners who'll be able to make use of them, a la how Viacom can sell Star Trek 25th Anniversary and Judgement Rites on Steam long after Interplay's death. (Wonder when they'll put up the Spectrum Holobyte TNG game, never got to play that one.)
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Agent Escalus posted:I strongly doubt their catalogue is going to completely disappear; if they don't get bought out/acquired (I'd bet by 2k, WB, or Ubi), then they'll have to go bankrupt, and when that happens the licensed IP games and their assets will probably go to the IP owners who'll be able to make use of them, a la how Viacom can sell Star Trek 25th Anniversary and Judgement Rites on Steam long after Interplay's death. (Wonder when they'll put up the Spectrum Holobyte TNG game, never got to play that one.) I'm sure, but that would almost certainly mean buying them again and there's no way I'm doing that. In retrospect I should have bought them on Steam to avoid the issue entirely but at the time I felt like I should support them directly. Alas. Buck Wildman fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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in the spirit of the season, telltale's skeleton crew was laid off http://gamasutra.com/view/news/327978/Report_Telltale_Games_lays_off_remaining_skeleton_crew.php https://twitter.com/anameformyself/status/1047930803634630657 no minecraft i guess
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Kurtofan posted:in the spirit of the season, telltale's skeleton crew was laid off Holy moly the management at Telltale shouldn't be trusted to run a Mcdonalds after this. What a wretched, messy end.
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Tired Moritz posted:Whats a skeleton crew It's what the bad guys in Pirates Of The Caribbean became after nicking those cursed doubloons its also supposed to be the smallest number of people you can have on hand to keep whatever operations you need running which is useful for say the night shift at a hotel but not for a game studio that used to have couple hundred employees and several projects
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https://twitter.com/anameformyself/status/1047975335235481600 Apparently , it's just this guy's team who got laid off, and there is still a smaller skeleton crew left. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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they just announced At NYCC that skybound will be finishing up the walking dead season
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I'm sure Telltale will use the money from that deal to compensate the employees who got no severahahaha no.
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SimonChris posted:https://twitter.com/anameformyself/status/1047975335235481600
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Walkind dead...lives. Another company is going to finish the season
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Bumping for news. Besides confirming that there is no buyer and they'll be completely gone soon, here's the most relevant part:quote:In regards to Telltale's games being removed from Steam, only certain titles - The Walking Dead, Back to the Future and Tales of Monkey Island - have been removed, while other titles, such as Batman, Guardians of the Galaxy, Tales from the Borderlands, and Game of Thrones, are still available for purchase. No word on Skybound's completion of Clementine's story. Can't help but wonder if it's getting rewrites.
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I assume Steam'll have the games available to people who bought them? Might go ahead and download them/back them up just for safety.
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davidspackage posted:I assume Steam'll have the games available to people who bought them? Might go ahead and download them/back them up just for safety. You're fine, there's been a ton of games delisted over the years and I don't think any of them are unavailable to download if you own them.
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Fawf posted:You're fine, there's been a ton of games delisted over the years and I don't think any of them are unavailable to download if you own them. Yeah Valve in particular makes the publisher agree to allow them to distribute games in perpetuity even if it's delisted from the store. If you have them on a Sony or Microsoft platform you might want to download them now just in case though.
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Ohtsam posted:Yeah Valve in particular makes the publisher agree to allow them to distribute games in perpetuity even if it's delisted from the store. If you have them on a Sony or Microsoft platform you might want to download them now just in case though. Sony does the same thing. PS game owners need not worry.
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...! posted:Sony does the same thing. PS game owners need not worry. Unless it's PT, that is.
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Chev posted:Unless it's PT, that is. There's a workaround for PT, and it was a free demo in the first place. They don't do that with paid games.
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Well, until PT we thought they didn't do that for demos either.
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Are they still going to work out a way to finish episode 3 and 4? It doesn't seem likely with all of these delistings and I know they're in talks but as anything actually been confirmed?
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TWD Season 1 was amazing. Season 2 was in amazing in how far a series could crash and burn. I bought Batman seasons 1 and 2 right before they closed shop but I can't really bother myself to start them.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:TWD Season 1 was amazing. Season 2 was in amazing in how far a series could crash and burn. the batman ones are pretty interesting because the flip alot of tropes and poo poo. the issue is your choices are superficial as gently caress at times.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:the batman ones are pretty interesting because the flip alot of tropes and poo poo. the issue is your choices are superficial as gently caress at times. They're also terribly unoptimized.
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Chev posted:Well, until PT we thought they didn't do that for demos either. There are a handful of demos over the years that were delisted and pulled, and can no longer be downloaded from PSN. Looking at my download history I have about 5 or 6 things that don’t have a visible title and don’t bring up anything if you try to access them. The 360 Markerplace also had a few things get nuked, most notably the Yaris advergame that Toyota had some bottom of the barrel dev make for them.
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Oh hey, the TWD staff got their jobs back and confirmation that the Season Pass is still valid. Hopefully those final 2 episodes really come together, eh?
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It was pretty promising first couple. I have hope
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