>hoards all your IP's and does nothing with them
It's in their name. They "embrace" (buy) everything they can and kill whatever doesn't automatically make them money.
Doing nothing is preferable to a woke remake.
>>733746602you fucking wish they did nothing, that would have been better than whatever the fuck this was
>embrace extend extinguish
>>733746602>Hold my beer!
>>733746602>does nothingthey made ancient greece into africa into a game
>>733746602They got a little cocky buying up everything when the covid money printer was on and everyone was inside playing videogames then the 1 billion dollar saudi deal fell through and they went on survival mode then the post covid industry crash correction happened and they went on ironman survival mode Not to mention every game they made flopped hard except Remnant 2 which was despite being woke as fuck still a decent game somehow.
>>733746602Honestly, it's a terrible time to start rehashing IPs. It hasn't worked in like a decade because the whole industry is fucked and in a downward spiral. The best they could do is make a small, inexpensive spin off. Like a farming sim, sports game, back-to-school, tamagotchi, or some shit using the characters in a lore-friendly but isekei way in which it's clearly just meant for fun and not to be taken seriously. Again, I reiterate, low-budget so they don't hurt themselves because it's most likely not going to make crazy money. That's what I'd do. Any attempt at a mainline entry meant to be taken seriously is going to piss off fans and never meet their expectations. It's just not a good time to do that.
>>733746602I'd rather they do nothing with IPs instead of the shit they've released.
>>733747139what is the tiny red box on xer forehead supposed to be pointing out
>>733747265gacha. they will make some money on the side and it generally doesn't piss people off too much because it's just some trash on the side and (like you said) not supposed to be a serious entry and everyone knows it
>>733746602>Implying this is bad Good videogame design is a lost art; a revival of your favorite IP would be so awful it would soil the IP.
>wish for a conclusion for Deus Ex MD>square has no interest in making another Deus Ex game because it didnt do GTA numbers>lose hope>embracer buys the IP and studio that made the last 2 games>hope goes up for a conclusion or at least a new game>Embracer shits itself completely>new deus ex game canceled>most of the studio they bought got laid off
>>733747506People are getting laid off because studios are switching to contract employment models. It's not that they're actually downsizing. It's just easier to bring in 300 people for 6 months than be burdened with having to find something for them to do every 6 months. Especially with the market in a downward spiral. Committing to employees is bad for business.
>>733747591cheaper to outsource to india or singapore or some shit
>>733746602>in negotiations with saudis for big money investment >hires devs to make new games for a bunch of IPs people want new games of>make a shitty reboot of saints row their customers told them they hated>tells customers to go fuck themselves>game flops hard>saudis see this trash and pull out>cancels everything and fires everyone>hoards the IPs so no games will ever get madeSweden Yes
>>733747662and you get what you pay for with that shit. i'm so tired of it.
>>733746602>>hoards all your IP's and does nothing with them
>>733746602On the contrary, Embracer does tons with their IPs, how else would they manage to have cancelled 80 different games as they gutted all the studios?
>>733747506it can stay dead for all I care, they were already treading on thin ice with me even tho I mostly liked MDalso the game that got cancelled wasn't even a jensen game
>>733748452Square Enix fucked them>"work on this Breach gamemode it will be big you should even make it standalone">cucked Eidos-Montreal out of actually releasing a new game after the incomplete ending of MD>sold off to Embracer because they wanted more NFT money, and Eidos declaring that they'll start working on Deus Ex (IIRC) implies that Square Enix forced them to work on something else
>>733748641part of the reason it flopped was bad word of mouth around Square's retarded "augment your pre-order" shit and fucking exp microtransactions in a single player gameI remember I delayed buying it until it was on sale later bc of that. Good game but I've made peace with the fact that that story will never get a conclusion
>>733748797I almost forgot about the microtransactions. Fuck Square Enix
>>733746602The embrace of death
>>733748836DOA from this moment.
>>733749679Where's that meme with the Doritos or whatever when you need it
>>733746876Anon, I...
>>733746602antifas tongue my anus
>>733750138don't be transphobic...
>>733749679I lost interest when a Deus Ex game was made for the iPhone.
>>733750951oh yeah that piece of shit existed
embracer group bought my studio and fired half the staff including meno, we were not making dei slop, just shitty mmos
>buys your favourite IP/studio>Shuts down the studio, cans the IP indefinitely Why are they so psychotic?Seriously this has happened at least to 1/4th of my game library.Even obscure niche titles, they massacres the most talented and promising shooter indie Devs NWI, makers of Insurgency.
>>733751305>>733748318games don't get cancelled because they're good
>>733751371Scalebound?
>>733751305they were planning on Saudis bailing out all of their reckless buying and then the saudis changed their minds so they had to immediately start consolidating and then the projects they still let go forward ended up being the worst shit ever like saints row
>>733751545
>>733751545Why did they spend all the money they didnt even have yet? do corporations not think further than the next quarterly earnings call?
>>733746602The Stellantis of game companies
>>733746602based#fuckgamers
>>733751526IIRC Kamiya himself said it was going nowhere and takes responsibility
>>733754395Likely that was the answer Microsoft forced him to make under threat of contract/NDA breach after mistreating the Japanese devs for so long. There's a reason Japanese devs avoided Xbox like the plague after that debacle.
>>733751371They don't always get cancelled because they're bad, eitherEmbracer cancels and shuts down so much because they have made massive losses every year and need to stem the bleeding
>>733747506Singleplayer ImSim games just don't sell anymore, look at what they did to the Perfect Dark Reboot.
>>733755984>They don't always get cancelled because they're bad, eitherLiterally every Retro Studios developer interviewed on Ravenblade treats it as some abomination
>>733756403Great
>>733746602it's worse than that, they actually killed studios when shit started to crumble microsoft and them had a remarkably similar last few years
>>733754395it's worse than that, they actually killed studios when shit started to crumble microsoft and them had a remarkably similar last few years
>>733759949>microsoft and them had a remarkably similar last few yearsBy all accounts, the Initiative was a messPeople leaving, deadlines missed, the game they were making going nowhere, etcAt some point you gotta cut your losses
>>733746950ERM STUDENT LOANS, AMIRITE?
>>733755984The studios they've closed mostly have been studios that spent the last 10 years fucking around and achieving nothing. Which is why they were cheap to buy, which is why embracer bought them, which is why the Saudis lost interest, because apparently they weren't as retarded as Embracer hoped they would be.
