What went so wrong?
>>739549045They went public. There's a YouTube video about it.
>>739549045releasing abhorrent woke garbage to a niche audience is my guessthey spend way too much money on horrific dogshit made by trashy studios, and then never make their money back so now they are in the shitter where they belong
and the stuff they fund that SHOULD be decent winds up in development hell or fucked up, because they give studios operating under them actually too much free reign to fuck around and fail to deliver
>>739549045I watched a video on youtube that expained that they used to operate as a venture capital so investors would invest money in tons of dogshit indies hoping that someday one of them will become succesful and cover all the expenses but then for some reason they decided to become an open trading company and had to disclose their quarterly profits and venture capitals are often in the minus so stock traders see that shit and sell their stocks
are graphs videogames now?should i keep looking at this graph, nickelback?
The best Devolver Directs happened before the crash.
>>739549276>are graphs videogames now?excel spreadsheets with graphics are considered games
Honestly the more surprising part to me was Devolver was ever that high to begin with
>>7395493482021 was still covid forever lockdown hysteria
>>739549348I think that was their IPO? IPOs usually base their pricing on the company's actual or at least perceived value, whereas ongoing stock price trends are based on ability to achieve unsustainable exponential profit growth
>>739549329can't say you're wrong.but i at least expect it to have a 25mm rotary gun
>>739549045>make entire reputation around never going public>go public>dieA mystery
>>739549045isnt their ceo some retarded asian bitch?
>>739549458hwat game?
>>739549458>>739549852oh it's CCDA, isn't it? I thought it might an ASCII jet game
>>739549852CD:DA - Bright NightsDon't play DDA, play BN.I'm not adding more quality to a shitty thread, sorry. Last reply but here you go fâmclean it up janniesmy final messagegoodbye
>>739549045they never made a good game.
>lets go public, surely the people buying shares do so because they care about the company!
>>739549045Devolver transitioned from publishing a bunch of smaller random titles every year to publishing maybe one half-finished, over-budget roguelite every year or two. The long-dev cycle trickle might work for AAA crap with unsinkably large studios behind them but there's no chance in hell that Cult of the Lamb followed by a three year gap to Ball X Pit is enough to keep a full publisher healthy.
>>739549045went woke gone broke
>>739549923>baby nights
>>739550364>Anitais that who I think it is?
>>739550486yes
Whos the best small time publisher?I really like Hooded Horse.
>>739549045they stopped publishing games
>>739549045Literally>indie company builds itself as anti corpo>goes public becoming a corpono longer successful because you betrayed who you were
>>739549045They waited too long to release Enter the Gungeon 2.
No more Hotline miami, no more Mother Russia bleeds...the only two things remotely interesting
>>739549045No good game since Enter the Gungeon.
I hope you guys bought MU, AMD, INTC, SOXLWe bought to have some massive green dildos tomorrow
ballXpit probably paid their year. that's what they do, 1 or 2 memegames a year that streamers do in a week and people just buy while its hot.
>>739551353Hooded Horse seem to be pretty great>Oh you're making a complicated strategy game? Welcome aboard! No pressure, release it when it's ready!Maybe they're too hands-off to a fault; Espiocracy doesn't seem to be any closer to release now than it was in 2022, but Hooded Horse are still great.
They haven't published a good game in years
Hotline Miami 1 and 2.Katana zeroThat one game where you play as the monster.I dunno what else this studio had.
>>739549276yes
>>739549291It was all over when they featured sonicfox in one of them
>>739550364>"Anita isn't a big deal!">*Devolver states Anita is a big deal*why can't woke faggots ever admit their own ideology exists
>>739552018It's been over a decade of "it's not happening but if it does then it's a good thing and you care too much so stop pointing it out". Luckily it seems even normalfaggots are fed up with their bullshit.
>>739549093OP knows, that's why he made the thread, to get someone to mention his video. Surely you're not OP samefagging, right anon?
how can it be someones entire job to be 'consulted' on if a product is gay/retarded/female enough? who is it for? why would you need someone to tell you your product isn't gay and retarded enough? is that why only a woman can do the job? because a man might accidentally give them good advice?
>>739549045making reddit games for starters
>>739551702Isn't that mandalore's company? or assmongoy's?
>>739549045Hiring Antia Sarkeesian for all the games you publish isn't cheap.
>>739552138You are thinking in retarded simpleton terms like "work" and "doing stuff" while they think in terms of power, because they are smart and because they are winners. You getting hired and paid by a company for bullshit reasons enhances your power. You attacking companies that refuse to hire and pay you enhances your power if you manage to cause them harm. It's mostly paying protection money.
>>739552112Things are definitely changing. In the last GDQ had some much trannyshit, that even the reddit getting sick of it.
>>739549497>make entire reputation about being edgy>become woke>die
>>739550364it's bizarre how everyone has to hire her
>>739549142spbp/thread
>>739551826bimbofication was a mistake
>>739553182Okay but what about reverse bimbofication
>>739549045Their CEO is a literal gay cuckold that's also into troon-coded furfaggotry, or was that just Gianni?
>>739553439Can't untaint a soul
>>739549045I guess coronobux
>>739549329I know you're joking but there does in fact exist an FPS game on par with Wolfenstein 3D that was coded in the MS-Excel's build of VisualBasic which runs from an .xls file like any other spreadsheet document. Look up for "Dave vs. Ziggy" on YT if you don't believe me.
>>739549045They decided to reject the audience that built them for BlackRock shekels. You think they'll ever go on stage at an event and say "games are better with tits" again?
>>739552125Nah. But since you asked so nicely, here's the video I watched:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CszMtocHiPE
>>739549045The only good thing to ever come from them.
>>739549045This was the biggest jewish and retarded move and now a tranny jew fagget will buy them out and steal all the IPs and scrap the company.
>>739554234Don't forget this
Are these dumbass stock trend threads that are in no way indicative of a studios livelihood (see Ubisoft whose stock has been floundering for years) the new useless catalog space wasting thread tactic replacing the equally as useless steam chart threads?
>>739552450It's sorta weird to see them waking up slowly like that. It's nice though.
>>739554554Stop writing run on sentences.
>>739551702>Espiocracylast time I heard people were accusing the guy of showing AI generated stuff for progress
>>739549045Serious Sam 3 & 4 were both disasters so fuck them
>>739553740Not with that attitude.
>>739552018>>739552112Gaslighting is not a bug, it's a feature.
>>739552138It's not a job, it's a seal of approval by a religious figure. Anita "works" like a pope does.
>>739549045>We release mostly garbage games while pretending we are cool and hip>What's that, the gamers worked it out>Quick, stop blowing lines of coke off the hookers stomachs, we can't afford this lifestyle anymore
>>739552138Consultancy is a skill less fake job, you can consult everything, except the shit you need to have requirements for.That's why couple council, well being, video games, etc. are a scam. /v/ you could literally make bank right now being an online consultant for couples and just ask them basic shit, like do you have sex? how long since you had sex, i think you guys need to have sex okay that'll be $2000 good day, oh i'll book you in for next week and remember late appointments is a $500 fee.
>>739556524Consulting is a wonderful invention. Reap the immediate (apparent) benefits, get 0 of the repercussions or blame later when non-obvious fault due to the change happens. Also it's fucking amazing with the company leads>hey this thing is not working, should we improve it?>>No, lets focus on our core mission>>>Hi I'm a consultant that you paid shitload of money. This thing is not working and you should improve it somehow. Thank you see you next year!>>OH MY GOD FIX THIS THING RIGHT NOW WHY HAS NO ONE EVER BROUGHT THIS UP BEFORE?
>>739551702>>739554760Espiocracy, from what I know, is just 1 guy.Not like the game was crowdfunded or anything, so I am not losing anything.
>>739554554>losing 87% of stock value is actually good for business
>>739550301This.As soon as cult of the lamb released, all I could think about was this Frank Zappa video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcGIAm17yXAtale as old as time>creative publishing company will release tons of weird, experimental things>no idea what'll be popular, who cares? let's see what sticks>years later>"I'm an expert on what's popular, my name is Anita. Release this game, and not that game">another few years>Why does everyone hate us? Why are we failing?
The company lost all of their cool cred. I think the breaking point was Shadow Warrior 3, where they deliberately recast the actors AFTER all the voice acting had been done to make it worse. And to cast a Korean American to play a quasi-Japanese Chinese man whose name is a penis joke.
>>739552138At first it was about them trying to justify a reason to hire their services to fix what they deemed to be sexist/racist/homophobic etc but now that sharteesian, SBI and other gay consultancy firms have "fixed" the industry in the wet you'd think their services wouldn't be needed anymore since every western triple gAAAy company bent over, but they need to keep the grift going and justify their own parasitic existence so now they act as a mafia racket where they gatekeep the industry from any opposing views in order to keep their cushy jobs as they continue enshittifying the industry. Won't be long before those grifting leftist faggots infiltrate the east to continue spreading their cancer because the chinks and koreans aren't kosher enough and it's another front for them to peddle their grift.
>>739550301>>739557246this doesn't work on publicly traded companies which work on quarterly profit margins
>>739549045Their big draws are the Serious Sam series and Shadow Warrior series, which already isn't a great place to be in. I've tried some other games published by Devolver and hated them. It's a shitty position to be in when you're regularly publishing a varied set of games and they just don't catch on.
>>739549045>>739549093They werent exactly doing gangbusters before, they lived and breathed off of one of their published titles doing well enough to support the rest. i doubt they are dead but it is very funny
>>739556524>>739556692How do I become a consultant, do I just put Consultant on my LinkedIn and pray for customers? I'm gunna consult SaaS and GaaS out of every industry if I can.
>>739557958even better, become a scrum master or agile lead. biggest bullshit on earth.
was devolver really a fucking publically traded company
>>739554234It's weird how they've never managed to make anything good after this. Tried following the company to see what else they have to offer and it's nothing
>>739557958you gotta lie about how much consulting work you've already done, companies only believe consultants that have already done consulting make up a bunch of small organizations (even better if you say they were temporary to avoid anyone double checking you) to fluff your resume, lie about the results they had, lie about your expertise, lie, lie, lie
>>739557958It's all about who you know, once you have your friends give you some jobs you can leverage those to monkeybranch to other bigger companies
>>739557958You literally have to be part of some gay commiefornian, canuckistan, eurocuck group of leftoid faggots to be accepted into their consultancy firm.
i've been meaning to get skate storymusic and aesthetics are great
>>739549045No Hotline Miami 3Real answer:Main issue is that succesfull devs don't need their support anymore or get bought by a publisher. They don't have any reliable revenue and Indie market gets flooded with games. But the main reason is No Hotline Miami 3.
>>739558170They have been for about 5 years.
>>739549045They make reddit garbage
>>739552138Anon, it's a basically a white collar protection racket. You have to hire Anita or SBI or a similar consultant or else they will publish articles smearing you for being bigoted chuds.
>>739549045Not making Hotline Miami 3.>>739549093Oh, that'd explain why they haven't made Hotline Miami 3.>But Dennis doesn't wan--They should make Hotline Miami 3.More seriously: They lost Fall Guys to Epig. Hatoful Boyfriend is done. Metal Wolf Chaos being a port is nice, but niche (and only for X-box gamers that never played it in Japanese)...What do they have?>My Friend PedroRan out of steam early.>Enter/Exit the Gungeon (2)Niche Bullethell Rougelike that not everyone is into.Like for every Hotline Miami, they have a Skate Story: A niche "walking sim" (so to speak) that isn't even trying to Tony Hawk.
>>739559286>Not making Hotline Miami 3.MY MAN!
>>739559286Also thinking on it (since I just started 2 last night) they do have the Talos Principle, but Croteam isn't selling major numbers with Serious Sam and that.
What company is ran by that Ben Judd faggot that I tend to get confused with Devolver?
>>739552450In typical reddit fashion, they don't realize what's going on until the water's already boiling. They thought /v/ and everybody else saying "they're trying to boil us alive!" were paranoid and overreacting because they lack pattern recognition.
>>739559286I got Enter the Gungeon because I generally like bullet hells and action RPGs. I hated it, both because of the roguelike randomness bullshit where you felt winning or losing was based on how lucky you got, and because it wasn't very fun actually fighting.
>>739559146But what if you hire them and then do the exact opposite of what they said
>>739559676Exit is IMO worse, because it's just Smash Brothers: Bullet Hell-esque. You're riding an elevator "down" like Downwell, but with Gungeon's bullet dodges.
>>739552450>Last comment comparing not wanting people to spam trans rights to being a literal nazi in 1942Lol
>>739560042Bullet hell games don't really work as sidescrollers. Enter generally wasn't about dodging bullets either, but at least you could move in 4 directions to not get shot. Exit seems to mark the point where they gave up pretending to be a bullet hell game and just had some of those elements from the previous game as a reference.
>>739561017i think you mean they don't work as platformers, not sidescrollers
>>739560751I love that shit. The irony is that whoever wrote it is probably an anti-semite who despises the country of israel.
>>739549045Their market is small kino indie games. Problem is, kino indie games don't need a publishing company since they rely on word of mouth anyway and if the game is good it kicks off anyway.If the game is bad, having a publisher doesn't help it because, again, it's just a bad small indie game.
>>739558215>>739558203Sounds gay, but it's something I might be willing to do>>739558338I would just do my own consulting, fuck any firm>>739558092Idk if we have those kinds of jobs here, where am I, those are just things you do as a Team Leader or Manager.
>>739561646They haven't had Kino since Hotline Miami.Their "punk" shtick wore off fast. So anything that isn't Hotline Miami is incredibly niche.
>>739549276>should i keep looking at this graph, nickelback?Every time I do, it makes me laugh.So, yes?
>>739561017Rabi-Ribi is an excellent bullet hell and a sidescroller
>>739549045You mean the publishers of hit titles such as The Crush Househttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2337820/The_Crush_House/aren't doing well? How could this be?
>>739560751Not to mention the guy who's talking about "inclusivity" like the the event organizers are literally going out into the world to train and create runners of all sexes and mental illnesses to be "inclusive" enough, as if they don't just ask to join.They really can't help themselves.
>>739549045I can't remember a game they published in the last 5 years
>>739549045everything after 2013 Shadow Warrior and Duke Nukem Whatever edition
They used to be basically the only game in town and now everybody is getting in on the indie publishing racket, even Nintendo themselves did a few one-offs with stuff like Good Job or the Stretchers, so they can't use that leverage anymore. And of course like >>739549093 said, going public means they now have to do stupid shit so shareholders get money.
>>739554234I'm finally going to buy it when it goes on sale for $1.49 again which I assume it will for the Summer Sale, was looking at it the other day and Wishlisted it.
>>739549045Look Outside, BallxPit and Baby Steps all got buzz last year, I wonder what they're wasting money on
>>739567349Enter the Gungeon 2, The Talos Principe 3, Dark Scrolls
>>739552230mandalore's companyasmongold only publishes gacha shit right?
>>739549093I didn't even know they'd gone public until I saw that video. what a stupid decision, completely antithetical to their entire brand identity. but of course that doesn't matter to the big wigs, they got a big payout and nothing else matters
>>739552018>why can't woke faggots ever admit their own ideology existsthey dont want it exposed, they are just malicious because they have no concept of caring about the truth, they just want to "win".if you agree with what they are doing and champion it, they are happy and agreeif you speak against it then they deny its happening.>its not happening, ok its happening but its not a big deal, ok its a big deal but they didnt mean it, ok they do mean it but why do you care anyway?!, u deserve it!
>>739552018>admit their own ideology existsNo side ever does this. Just look at how people respond. No matter what side it's people insisting THEY are the normal ones.
>>739559286Man you're actually retarded holy shit.
>>739551826>NK defector>becomes a conservative influencerI'm gonna go jerk off to her, but I won't be happy about it
>>739550364>>739549045its a fucking reddit tier company fuck them
>>739550364This gives me the impression that Anita has done a lot of consulting shit for a ton of their gamesBut she's not in the credits then.Why hide it if they're so proud? Its the same with Slay 2, I doubt it would have sold so much if they had been upfront about her work.
>>739558573>Just make more pointless sequels
>>739573041>I doubt it would have sold so much if they had been upfront about her work.
>>739573660Thanks for proving my point.
>>739573757>Thanks for proving my point.
>>739573823You already conceded, you can stop posting anytime.
