Hello! I'm an artist, writer, and game developer. I work for @7thBeatGames on "A Dance of Fire and Ice" and "Rhythm Doctor."
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I run @IndieGamesofCohost where I share screenshots and spotlights of indie games. I also interview devs here on Cohost.
Industry's so fucked, man. Doesn't matter how well you do critically or commercially. What scale you're working at. There's a rot in the business.
i cannot fathom closing Tango, creators of one of the most highly acclaimed out-of-nowhere titles of last year. if there was ever any sign that the big corporations only want your game and will never have your back, this is it. this is so fucked.
I wasn't shocked Arkane Austin got cut, but Tango is literally pumping out only bangers, what fucking standard are they expecting??
At this point of the acquisition/closure onslaught, my question is also starting to be “which owner/employees benefited financially from the acquisition and are they financially helping peeps affected by the closure?”
Cause it’s not like Xbox bought those for nothing.
Considering Robert Trump was a board member/major investor in Zenimax Media and died without heirs, technically one of the biggest payout winners of the acquisition was Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.
Yes but I was thinking more of someone like Mikami who may have gotten millions in the 2010 zenimax deal and left last year.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/resident-evil-creator-shinji-mikami-joins-zenimax
He left to found a new company to make games because he was unhappy at Tango because of Bethesda/MS. Tango 2 basically.
yeah mikami seems to be a real one from what i’ve seen today from people more in the know. todd howard on the other hand.. remember, didn’t bethesda get arkane/ID prior to msft getting bethesda? like they were in any way hurting for money.
Didn't that guy famously hate his dipshit brother? I would hope he had something in place to stop that from happening but I don't know.
Your thinking of his older brother Fred Jr., his daughter is a psychologist and hates his guts. Literally a week before he died Robert surprised Donald at a 2020 campaign event and they had a huge hug. About one of the few genuinely human moments that guy showed his entire life.
still fuming about this tbh. hi-fi rush was released on a subscription service with almost no pre-release hype and still caught success on sheer critical acclaim. msoft mishandled that game in every way possible and it was still amazing! it still made them money! and tango was cut anyway. there is no safety in the business under these corporations
Microsoft is really only interested in being Netflix for games. They want a back catalog and they don't care how many workers they have to sacrifice to the gods of the quarterly returns to make it happen.
