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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: MysterD on Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 06:28:42 PM
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Kotaku - EA closes Visceral Games (makers of Dead Space series & Battlefield: Hardline). (https://kotaku.com/ea-shuts-down-visceral-games-1819623990)
YongYea on Youtube - His thoughts on the closure of Visceral. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auJkO3AS828)
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Damn. How sad is that? I wish only EA was raping and pillaging the gaming scene, but other big publishers are also engaged in the destruction. Microsoft is poised to turn their console space into such a wasteland. Forza 7 I guess leads the charge. I've pretty much resolved never to buy another game with pay-to-win or pay-to-earn mechanics. Loot boxes in particular will disqualify any title.
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GameSpot - Former Visceral developer Zach Wilson says Dead Space 2 costs $60M to make, only sold 4M units; that all wasn't enough b/c you have to spend $60M to market it; and retailers & Microsoft take a big cut. (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/dead-space-2-dev-says-game-cost-60m-to-make-and-so/1100-6454150/)
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Bummer, but not unexpected. Frankly I'm surprised it took this long. RIP, Dead Space franchise. I enjoyed you.
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Kotaku - Article on the troubled development of Visceral's Star Wars code-named project "Ragtag." (https://kotaku.com/the-collapse-of-viscerals-ambitious-star-wars-game-1819916152)
It's about issues w/ EA, Visceral, Amy Hennig, and more.
Hell of a read, to say the least.
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This is dumb but I kind of hope Amy Henning ends up with whoever owns the Legacy of Kain rights these days.