Gaming @lemmy.ml ylai @lemmy.ml 4 wk. ago

Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios Group is closing the Montreal studio it acquired just 8 months ago

www.pcgamer.com Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios Group is closing the Montreal studio it acquired just 8 months ago

Avalanche's New York office is also closing, and 'around 50' employees are being laid off.

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to many companies operating like a locust swarm

acquire, consume, destroy
The gaming industry is taking this 1983 retro thing too far.
How many game studios is that within a 2 month period?!
- I don't know any 2 months but it seems like the U.S. based game industry companies are now on a roll to see which can close more studios per ceo now.
  
  Not just the U.S.
  Avalanche Studios has their headquarters in Sweden and they're closing their studio in Canada (per this article). Additionally, Phoenix Labs (Dauntless & Fae Farm) is a Canadian game developer and they just let go of a significant number of developers and cancelled all future projects (about 3 weeks ago): https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/dauntless-developer-phoenix-labs-lays-off-employees-and-cancels-in-development-projects-says-its-the-last-resort-to-ensure-phoenix-labs-can-survive/
  
  While Microsoft was the one shutting down multiple Game Developers last month, those studios are also based all over:
  Tango Gameworks - Japan
  Alpha Dog Games - Canada
  Arkane Studios - (Headquarters in France, but shutting down their Studio in the U.S.)
  Roundhouse Studios - U.S.
  
  Edit: formatting
Yep. I have a friend who works there, well I guess he use to. Get ready for a wave of shitty videogames all written and designed by AI in the coming years.
- They should let AI be the CEO’s too
  
  AI comes up with bad ideas just like CEOs.
Maybe they can change their fortunes by not making the exact same fucking game 20 times in a row.

Just Cause, Rage 2, Mad Max, Generation Zero, The Hunter ARE THE SAME FUCKING THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN
- Sounds like you don't like open worlds. Maybe don't play them?
  
  I actually liked New Vegas' open world and its a miracle it turned out the way it did, and within the span of a year. Night City too, but CDPR had a long time to get it right and I even waited a year and a half post-release.
- Okay, I'll bite. How are all of those the same?
  
  All rely heavily on fetch quests as the basis of their game loop, and all of them are flavored fetch quests. I played Generation Zero and got sick of it quick, and it quickly became apparent as I played Rage 2 that this is most of the experience.
- Just Cause 2 was their big hit, so they kept trying to make Just Cause 2 again with every subsequent game, Just Cause or otherwise.
  
  Lightening doesn't strike twice.
Nooooooo!

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