Dodger Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 4 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Current reporting from Jason Schreier appears to indicate that it was MSFT who pulled the plug and that's the reason for Ybbara's depature. But he’s also reporting the game was still years away despite being in development for 6 years. Could just be development was just not going well. Still this is the first game MS has canceled that we know about since the acquisition spree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 2 minutes ago, Dodger said: But he’s also reporting the game was still years away despite being in development for 6 years. Could just be development was just not going well. Still this is the first game MS has canceled that we know about since the acquisition spree. Oh sure - I'm just positing that this was more than likely a Microsoft-dicated action rather than a Blizzard-dictated one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Not to take away from the issue at hand, but Blizzard Survival Game sounds as unappealing and not-for-me as it gets. I’m not disappointed it’s gone, but more that they dumped money into it and not a new RTS that we know of. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 11 minutes ago, crispy4000 said: Not to take away from the issue at hand, but Blizzard Survival Game sounds as unappealing and not-for-me as it gets. I’m not disappointed it’s gone, but more that they dumped money into it and not a new RTS that we know of. StarCraft 3 probably makes a lot of people happy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Is the talent even at Blizzard anymore to make a good version of StarCraft 3 or WarCraft 4? I know people were surprised Diablo IV was somehow good but I don't play that series so can't confirm. We should probably just wait/rely on ZeroSpace and StormGate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 3 hours ago, Dodger said: StarCraft 3 probably makes a lot of people happy I bet they’ll make it an extraction shooter, like Marathon. I’m only half kidding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 The people on that project were all laid off so they're not working on your RTS now either. Congrats gamers, more is less, and less is less. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 2 hours ago, SuperSpreader said: The people on that project were all laid off so they're not working on your RTS now either. Congrats gamers, more is less, and less is less. Cheers. A RTS wouldn’t have taken 6 years to make bud. At least not with a appropriately sized team dedicated to it. And it’s hard to imagine an RTS today being cancelled in part due to engine troubles. This whole team apparently got axed because they couldn’t pull their AAA survival game together. Not that they deserved to be shitcanned as such, but it probably made Microsoft’s decision to hit them hardest simpler, with their appetite to cull. I don’t know if the execs leaving at the same time is any silver lining, but if they failed this team in any substantive way, they are out as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 40% of Toys for Bob was gutted. Guess family friendly fun is on the chopping block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Another corporate apologist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 34 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said: Another corporate apologist lol, the last thing I'd want to do is defend Microsoft or Activision Blizzard for their bad decisions. Or for this 'need' to gut their development teams post-buy out. This Blizzard news is like if Arkane Austin was shut down before releasing Redfall. The rank and file workers wouldn't be the ones to blame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 2 hours ago, crispy4000 said: A RTS wouldn’t have taken 6 years to make bud. At least not with a appropriately sized team dedicated to it. And it’s hard to imagine an RTS today being cancelled in part due to engine troubles. This whole team apparently got axed because they couldn’t pull their AAA survival game together. Not that they deserved to be shitcanned as such, but it probably made Microsoft’s decision to hit them hardest simpler, with their appetite to cull. I don’t know if the execs leaving at the same time is any silver lining, but if they failed this team in any substantive way, they are out as well. I’ve seen things saying the problem is that they were using a mobile engine instead of UE5 and the engine wasn’t going to work for the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 54 minutes ago, Dodger said: I’ve seen things saying the problem is that they were using a mobile engine instead of UE5 and the engine wasn’t going to work for the game. Blizzard's cancelled survival game, Odyssey, reportedly killed due to its engine WWW.VG247.COM With the cancellation of Blizzard's Odyssey, we seemingly missed out on a good survival game that died because of its e… Quote Unfortunately, the tech powering the game is where its troubles began, and it is what eventually lead to development ceasing. According to the report, the Odyssey team started out building prototypes using the Unreal Engine. Epic’s incredibly popular engine reportedly could not support the team's 100-player ambitions, so Blizzard executives made the decision to switch to Synapse, an in-house engine that had been initially developed for mobile. UE5 (or 4) isn't some magic bullet for open world games either. We've seen enough poor examples to know better. Also, piling further on: Quote According to the report, Odyssey had a simple pitch: to be a survival game with the polish, quality, and attention to detail Blizzard is known for. Based on a 2017 pitch by World of Warcraft veteran Craig Amai, the game was said to have vast maps that can support up to 100 players at once. I think any gaming company that makes 'secret sauce' the crux of their project pitch suffers from a management problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Microsoft: So guys, umm, how are those Switch ports coming along? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxEvil AshxX Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 23 hours ago, crispy4000 said: Microsoft: So guys, umm, how are those Switch ports coming along? Most of those studios had to be big enough to crank out a major CoD release every two or three years. If CoD is no longer going to be an annual release, the size of those studios is probably no longer necessary. That's just me trying to think like a major corp. though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 But then who will make the new Hexen? … Spyro? … Crash? … Tony Hawk? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 31 minutes ago, crispy4000 said: But then who will make the new Hexen? … Spyro? … Crash? … Tony Hawk? Man, a new Hexen would be awesome. Graven just came out on the 23rd, which is a spiritual successor to Hexen, so that's something. It has a 65 on Metacritic after 11 critic reviews (no audience score yet) as the game just dropped. Not a great score but if you're starved for modern Hexen it's there. I haven't tried it out myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 Deleted. Don't want to give him the engagement, that dude is trash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 53 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said: Deleted. Don't want to give him the engagement, that dude is trash. I thought he made a good point tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 18 minutes ago, best3444 said: I thought he made a good point tbh. nah he's a nobody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 1 hour ago, SuperSpreader said: Deleted. Don't want to give him the engagement, that dude is trash. Too late. I was already engaged. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 1 minute ago, SuperSpreader said: nah he's a nobody I guess. Probably better you deleted it and don't give him attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 Former Call of Duty boss reportedly takes reins as Blizzard's new president - Dot Esports DOTESPORTS.COM She replaces Mike Ybarra, who left last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 29 Author Share Posted January 29 Microsoft really, really wanted to clean house of Blizzard's executive leadership as this isn't even an in-studio promotion from within Blizzard itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 More women in leadership roles they are ruining the company!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nublood Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 Just take the L already Blizzard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 More layoffs happened at Activision on Monday. Don't know the numbers but individual announcements are popping up online from people looking for work. An internal recruiter said 200, but even they don't know. Maybe it's old data tricking out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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