Now that the news has hit regarding the rumored deep cuts coming from Activision to it's newly acquired Sierra, the author expresses regret over what could be the beginning of the end for an epic label, and how we're finally seeing the dark side of Activision Blizzard.
From the article: "I am sure that Activision Blizzard aren't so stupid as to scrap projects already close to release, like Ghostbusters and Prototype, but with regard to Sierra's creative and sometimes risky game making ideology, I'm going to miss that. I'm also going to miss meeting HAPPY Sierra employees at conferences and events. I don't want these people paranoid. I want them making great games."
"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".
I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.
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This ship was never meant to sail, this ship was made from the get go to sink as fast as possible. It almost feels that they want to lower the standards of quality in the industry so that they can fit in
I disagree, Xbox from the get go innovated and changed the industry. They did a lot of firsts and standardized a lot of others. It wasn’t till the beginning of the Xbox1 era that things started to go south.
Xbox has no soul and Phil has no confidence, and it's impossible to say either do when they killed Tango and Arkane Austin.
Everything they've said since has only made them look worse to a point that they're actually less competent than Embracer.
Whe you release something like the series S and expect it not to hurt your business model, and developers have to have parity with games. Then you know Microsoft don't care. Series s is the final nail that broke developers,
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
... if this keeps going. Oh who am I kidding... it already DOES suck. The industry is like TV and Radio now. ALl of the power consolidated into a couple of entities. That equals bad news for consumers, no matter which way you look at it.
PLease. I totally try not to get all fanboy about publishers and developers... but this is both sad and expected. When Vivendi was acquired I knew Sierra's way of doing things (successfully) wouldn't jive with the way the super-ultra-mega publishers do their thing. They were a threat, one of the last.....
*sigh.