Digitally Downloaded writes: "After running into extreme financial trouble, 38 Games has officially closed down. It’s a sad day in gaming as the 300-odd headcount at the developer was a team with real potential. Kingdoms of Amalur, its first and only game, was not a bad game at all."
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Electronic Arts has announced a number of server closures in the coming months, including Apex Mobile and the 2012 Syndicate reboot.
Syndicate's big saving grace will soon be erased for good. I'll give *some* credit to EA in keeping servers up for 10+ years.
Oh yeah, an actual cyberpunk game. I have fond memories of the old bullfrog Syndicates.
Syndicate was a fun and high quality late PS3 fps that got swallowed in the sea of fps at the time. It was short and it didn't innovate but it had good visuals and fun combat. Starbreeze i believe. Rip Torn and Rosario Dawson.
This week on the Link-Cable podcast we talk about all things gaming. From Kingdoms of Amalur, EA games heading to Steam and… Neopets? Oh and we show off a bunch of fun gaming collectibles! Check out the show below!
Not taking a huge loan would've help. Seeing as they had began developing the MMORPG before they did KoA. They should probably went forward with MMORPG. The could have put the RPG on hold had the team(that was working on the rpg version) help finish the MMORPG. The MMORPG probably could have been finish late 2010 to mid 2011. Made the MMORPG P2P and eventually they would saw profit, hopefully. Use the profit to start working on KoA and pay off the loan.
Then maybe a company like EA would've brought them.
They bet big on what's actually a good game. But quality doesn't guarantee sales. We see it in many industries, not just gaming.
If amular came out a bit before skyrim, that may have helped :P
So does this mean I don't get a sequel to KoA? That sucks all kinds of balls.
I read somewhere that EA didnt give them a penny of amalur profit...they literally just put most of their resources in the game and didnt get a single dollar in return
Maybe if EA could've given them their share, they could've paid next 2 mil dollar loan emi's