Loads of people were disappointed to learn Brink was delayed into 2011, but according to Splash Damage CEO Paul Wedgwood, it wasn’t because the team are a bunch of taunting sadists - the game just needed more time in the Beta phase.
Pete Hines is retiring from Bethesda Softworks after 24 years.
Im glad he leaving. Bethesda has been terrible under his leadership. Redfall, Starfield, Fallout76 and the list goes on an on. His leadership style is outdated. Hopefully, MS bring someone in that knows what they are doing.
I interviewed at Bethesda once, and while there were some very smart mid level team members, the upper ranks (EP/VP/Studio Head) were a total boys' club. The Madmen series ego in that lunch was stiffling.
I interviewed at Bethesda once, and while there were some very smart mid level team members, the upper ranks (EP/VP/Studio Head) were a total boys' club. The Madmen series ego in that lunch was stifling.
Pete Hines was against locking out the majority of their console playerbase (ps gamers). Probably disgusted at the hypocrisy of white knight Phil assuring PS gamers that they can still play COD. Acquisition goes through, Hines goes out.
Goodbye Pete.
i wonder if he was asked to leave.
im pretty sure not everyone was on board with the acquisition.
Head of Xbox Matt Booty said that it’s ‘unfair’ to put crunch culture on ‘one studio’
"Head of Xbox Matt Booty said that it’s ‘unfair’ to put crunch culture on ‘one studio’"
Alright Matt, so you're saying it's okay because there are other studios that crunch too? What sort of effed up logic is that for a supposed leader?
He's not wrong that it's standard in the industry (unfortunately). That being said, MS are the biggest corporation which is in gaming, they should be leading the way, so I expect better leadership than 'it's the standard so let's keep doing it'.
I hate game delays, but the standard should be to delay games instead of making people work themselves into the grave. Hopefully their working conditions get better now that they're part of MS.
Crunching has been going on forever and will probably not go away anytime soon. But funny how you all want to make this such a big deal. At least In the U.S. I know tons of people who work 12 hour days 6 days a week at factories and small industrial sites. In condition that aren’t some nice comfortable, air conditioned office space.
My point is, this is nothing unique to this industry and plenty of people work shitty long hours for much less pay in other industry.
To discredit how the gaming community reacts to delays is BS. All the negative articles, whining from the community, and toxic twitter crap. Can have an effect, especially on a smaller company.
But what cracks me up the most is people trying to spin this into MS not caring crap. So let me ask? Didn’t Xbox and Bethesda just delay it’s two biggest games this year? Haven’t they been taking a lot of shit for that? But they did the right thing, they didn’t crunch the studios so they could get it done.
Talk is cheap, actions only count and by their actions they have shown their willing to take the hard knocks to do the right thing. Argue all you want proof is in the pudding.
Gamespot : The studio, known for its work on franchises like Wolfenstein and Gears of War, has announced its own original game.
They should add a third person mode. Running, jumping and looking cool are all good for third person. Not that they should take out the first person camera they have now.
Adding a 3rd person mode will defeat much of the FPS intended experience of Brink.
Many surprise elements and ambush opportunities etc would vanish.
This is an objective based shooter from a developer with great experience in its field. You couldn't have added 3rd person to Wolf: ET or ET: QUAKE Wars.
You dont want to go up aganist Halo Reach and Balck Ops.
2011 March sounds about right when all the COD and Halo fever has worn down a little.
It just feels like 2008, 2009, and now 2010 all over again. anything that has a gun involved gets pushed back because of Cod ( MW )... not to mention Halo as well.
I hope they have pushed it back to make real improvements. it's a shame though.
I was looking forward to spending my money on this instead of another cod game.
Brink looks awesome, and I'm all for them taking their time to polish it to perfection.
But man am I going to be poor during the first few months of 2011. So many games...