According to a post over on NeoGAF, Team Bondi are bankrupt, and studio head Brendan McNamara along with current staff members will be folded into KMM. This new rumor comes on the heals of yesterday’s report that Mcnamara was spotted walking about the KMM studios, and that a deal was in the works for it to purchase the embattled Australian development house.
From Xfire: "Executives, would-be auteurs, marketing departments; sometimes they are oh, so out of touch with the realities of gaming."
I watched the whole 8-9 min video, and you can tell D.M. was talking just to hear himself talk. The submarine comment also made Xbox look bad because of his ignorance involving the military.
EA has two of them. Nice...It was a joy to read about all these train wrecks. For me, a Diablo fan, Mr. Cheng and crew already ruined Diablo by turning it into WoW, then they come out and attack us for not wanting more WoW on mobile.
These people 100% think they are better and smarter than the public. They feel that this gives them the "god-talent right" to insult their customers on a daily basis. The funny thing is that people will defend their right to be insulted and suckered, so, I guess all is fair.
how did Diablo turn into wow? I would rather make an argument for the opposite. Mythic+ is basically rifts, Titanforging is random gear rolls from Diablo, legion legendaries felt more like diablo legendaries than previous wow legendaries, The artifact power(azerite and anemo) were basically paragon levels from D3.
tbh that dont you have phone statements i cant help but feel sorry for the guy. He probably didnt even wanna announce a mobile diablo game at blizzcon in front of a 99% pc audience. He is probably not even in charge if the game could be ported to pc or not. The blame is on blizzard higher ups for making that one of their main announcements at blizzcon.
Exclusives Are ‘Completely Counter To What Gaming Is About,’ Xbox’s Phil Spencer Says
Phill Spencer: proceeds to spend 88 billion to secure exclusives
I looked that quote up just to be sure you weren't taking it out of context, but wow... yeah he actually said that.
"He added that he believes 'gaming is about entertainment and community and diversion and learning new stories and new perspectives, and I find it completely counter to what gaming is about to say that part of that is to lock people away from being able to experience those games'." is the full quote, found on NME
David from BagoGames writes: Seven years on, Team Bondi’s development troubles color L.A. Noire‘s perception. Knowing what we know now about its development and working conditions, many of its blemishes make sense. While the facial motion capture still holds up, most of the game falls a little flat. Investigating is entertaining, but cases play out in such a linear fashion that success or failure doesn’t impact anything. You could mess up every question and still make the story progress just the same as a more eagle-eyed detective. The only difference would be the star rating delegated at each case’s end. L.A. Noire was a technically ambitious last gen open world adventure game, but development hell inhibited its vision.
After the incredible success of Team Bondi’s L.A. Noire, the gaming world waited eagerly for its follow-up Whore of the Orient, but sadly it will never come.
I knew the game was in developmental hell, but didn't realise the whole thing had been given up on and everyone had moved on. Loved L.A. Noire, and this sounds like it would have been even better,
I wouldn't mind knowing what Bendan McNamara is doing then if it is not this?
Hopefully another game similar to L.A. Noire. I just want another crime fighting game, and The Whore of the Orient just didn't look similar to me from the gameplay reveal a few years back.
This is some disappointing news. I loved LA Noire and was looking forward to this. I just those involved are able to get jobs again. :(
That is disappointing. I love L.A. Noire, so I am hoping that Team Bondi will make another game similar to it.
EDIT: My mistake, the developer is KMM.
Team who?
There's a lot of drama surrounding this.
Hope it doesn't end badly for them.
i doubt it, if this is true rockstar should sep up and support there dev they did buy them out so to leave em out to dry like that would be uncool, and prolly have people guessing they bought them out only because they had the better had in development
But, HOW? they made the game for free? LA:N is a hit, it sold pretty damn well, how the hell they can go bankrupt, the tech on it was that expensive to not see any profit?
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@gypsy
Got it, but damn that was fast and I never thought it could happen to Dev Studio with such a hit game
:P seems like David Cage was right after all, (from GAF)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...
Keep in mind that LA Noire is still coming out for PC in like 2 months, that could save them.