Chinese online game operator Netease(NASDAQ:NTES) got final approval to launch the Long-Anticipated Wrath of the lich King in China Mainland, still some restrictions are introduced to this game's Chinese version.
NetEase has shed light on the restructuring of its overseas studios, and has also revealed plans to focus on GaaS for the global market.
'meet efficiency standards.'
'during the whole process of conceiving a project and taking it to its completion, the company must constantly adapt to future market trends.'
These two things are mutually exclusive.
If you have constantly shifting project scope, it's not going to be efficient. Far from it.
Right you are.
If you keep changing your vision, you would end up with a mishmash unfocused mess
Star Wars Eclipse remains in development despite NetEase restructuring. Quantic Dream confirms progress with no delays. Get the latest updates here!
Loving the dark vibe of this Star Wars game. The Respawn ones were decent, but KOTOR is still my favorite.
NetEase will divest itself of many of its overseas studios, leading to their potential closure, according to a new report.
'The company’s overseas studios include Quantic Dream, Grasshopper, Nagoshi Studio, Pincool, GPTRACK50 Studio, Studio Flare, Jackalyptic Games, Anchor Point Studios, T-Minus Zero Entertainment, Rebel Wolves, and Skybox Labs.'.
That would be bad.
What is it with these groups buying up loads of developers?
They all bought in when it looked like gaming was experiencing limitless growth during COVID. Now that reality has set in and the gaming audience isn’t actually expanding very much, they’re backing out with practically zero concern for how damaging it will be to any of the individuals involved.
On the plus side, big money getting out of gaming en masse will be devastating in the short term but likely a highly positive development going forward. Less pressure on games being purely money printing exercises, potentially. We shall see.
