Well are you?
I cared more for Highguard. Now that was a game.
>>741211983It does make me slightly worried about Microsoft's strategy moving forward since Microsoft basically has no IPs outside of Gears, Halo and Forza. While concurrent player count is a bad metric for deciding how much something succeeded, a lot of the games on this list needed like five times more players to make them worthy ventures so I understand why they were shut down. Asha is talking about putting the games first while also effectively undoing all of Phil's spending which while reckless; it did result in games. Not popular games, but you could just demand they work on safer ideas rather than axing them.
>>741211983>Ninja TheoryYesGo woke go broke
it's pretty amazing that such a dogshit studio like ninja theory is only closing down now
>Nothing of value was lostObsidian soon™.
>>741211983>develop shit games to "own the chuds">get owned and shut down insteadlol. lmao even
>steamlol to show you how irrelevant steamies are
>>741211983Had no idea Double Fine even made anything after Psychonauts 2
>>741212367>GearsThey killed that one too
>>741211983Source?
Imagine if Xbox was run by a complete chud back in 2016 and he just ignored all the woke stuff and the idea of trying to elevate gaming with artistic projects. He just made investments based on his nostalgia for games from 2001-2013. They'd be swimming in money.All these problems at Xbox are really a decade old at this point. They're just now reaching their inevitable conclusion
>>741211983Double Fine is just shitting out games to fill the game pass catalog and Ninja Theory became a one trick pony making the same shit with Hellblade for the last 10 yearsThe only real loss would be Arkane because they used to make good games before Deathloop
>>741212367Lesson here is that microsoft should only acquire already proven studios. In the meantime they need to scale back and actually work on the ip's thats good. Halo has been in the gutter since halo 4....... they really need to reinvent the ip.... same with gears. Forza studio actually got to make fable so they are doing something else.Id like to see what the coalition can create if they werent bound to only doing gears. I think its a good thing they are focusing on their proven ip,
>>741212367why do they refuse to make another AAA co-op focused IP. thats literally what halo/gears are and thats what made them so popular
>>741212585>whaling goodpeople used to get bullied for brownnosing like this
>>741212585>GTAOcome on now
>>741211983>>741212602I have been under the impression that Double Fine are working on something larger while pushing out these smaller projects. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know how ambitious Keeper was because I only looked at the trailer. But Kiln was literally like a "game jam" game that they ended up releasing. I refuse to believe that the studio that made Psychonauts 2 put their full weight behind a project like that.
>>741212585>gta onlineis it really surprising people who could just play modded servers aren't buying shark credit cards
>>741212585>gta online
>>741212872>NOOOOO YOU CAN'T USE THE BEST SELLING AAA GAME AS AN EXAMPLE
>>741211983I'm not happy with studios getting bought up by the major corporations to begin with, but at this point I am not unhappy about seeing shitty, out of touch studios close.
>>741212979That's a nice way of saying you cherrypick as hard as possible
>>741211983Nothing of value was lost
Redfall was MS's fault. They didn't want to make that shit.
>>741212585>under 300m a year on consoleuh console bab is that suppose to be impressive? a game like league of legends makes 34m a week vs gta 9m lol.
>>741212434>only mad about the studio with the female protagonistObsessed loser.
>>741212539they literally collected 6 figure salaries making speculative garbage for no one woke Califag liberals literally robbed their own investor's money ignoring the due diligence of market research and knowing your audience and instead try to be activist and change culture to ugly commie troonshit and get shocked when this happens lmao you don't hate these people enough
>>741211983Are there more people im the credits of double fine's games than steam's peaks?
>>741213113>get proven that steam is irrelevant >can't make an argument and just say muh cherrypicklol
yes
don't you mean "is you happy chud"fixed you're grammar for you~
>>741212367The original problem of Xbox was they did not have anything bur Forza/Gears/Halo. What they are doing now is not just burning any leftover goodwill (if they still had some), not just scaring away any potential dev teams in the future but regressing to the start of the Xbox One generation. In fact they are even worse because almost every title they have is on every competing platform AND development times are so long now there won't be a new mainline IP for 5 or more years.What exactly will Xbox offer with the Helix? You can play multiplats slightly better than on the competitors systems which will cost half or less?
>>741211983I’m indifferent. I have a copy of Psychonauts 2 I need to play though. I don’t know anything about Ninja Theory, Compulsion, or Arkane.
Yeah
>>741211983One thing that people need to remember about selling games in a market like this is that your product needs to generate excitement that converts to sales, it isn't enough to make something just kind of decent.This is even more true when it comes to the political side of this equation. There's nothing ethically wrong with having a protag be a minority of some kind, but these games will always perform worse because they fail to generate excitement amongst typical players due to demographics. It has nothing to do with the chuds, or whatever which there aren't that many of proportionally. When you set the goal that your game must sell 5 million copies or something similar to that, you forcibly adopt a number of creative restrictions that people aren't really ready to accept in 2026.
>>741212367What good is IP when it’s not utilized effectively?I hope this whole IP Focused strategy across American media will die for good honestly.I genuinely just feel revulsion when I see GAME #8 THE EMBIGGENING!!
>>741213403They turned Psychonauts into MCU slop in the sequel. It's not about mental illness anymore, it's about getting the superhero team back together
>>741211983>We Happy Fewi still can't believe they never managed to patch this game after all those fucking years since they released it. I still remember getting to the town and getting game breaking crashed where i couldn't progress. They never fixed it. What the fuck
>>741212585>gtao
>>741212585rockstar owns fivem on pc they dont need us for sharks
>>741212585Browns primarily are console gamers, we know..
>>741211983I member when Double Fine popularized Kickstarter by implying they were making Psychonauts 2 and then made a bad adventure game no one wanted instead. When they finally made Psychonauts 2 everyone had stopped caring.
they should make a new game about killing guys with a big shotgun
>>741211983So despite all We Happy Few was kind of a success
>>741211983its a start, wheres halo studios?
>>741213273No matter how much you suck up to women they still won't have sex with you.
>>741211983never heard of them
>>741212780Sandy Petersen ruined Doom. This guy is full of shit and his opinion is worthless.
>>741212780fable looks like absolute shot and halo studios needs gutted
>>741213260I wouldn't trust ccp numbers
>>741213678this doesn't have anything to do with what i said
>>741213505For what it's worth I think IP is necessary because IP is what builds brands, other than having am easily detectable pathos of course (Nintendo comes to mind).
>>741213612they did, people didn't like it
>>741213606They said it was an adventure game from the start. People just assumed and Double Fine didn't listen to what they were telling them.
>>741211983i had no idea kiln was already out
>>741213662we now for companies its never enough profit
>>741212585how fucking stupid are you
>>741213741lmao youll never ever have sex
>>741213760i liked it more than the others nodoomsat least i wasnt forced into a shit cutscene every 5 seconds
>>741213606Because they ripped people off enough times on Kickstarter that people started agreeing with Bobby. They released that space base game and the moment they realized that it wasn't going to be a hit, they releases version 1.0 and moved on to their next grift.
>>741213582They dont need you got GTA6 release either HA!>>741213598See pic, most south Americans and Africans play on PC not console
>>741213662not really
>>741213664As stupid as it sounds, Halo Studios isn't really a developer. It's an outsourcing coordinator.
>>741213487thats a lot of words to say get woke go broke lmao>>741213385ugly tranny wokeslop is not games, so
>>741213880well can we fire them anyway they only make shit
>>741213723yep fable looks dogshit millennial writing paired with dei >>741213704i do agree with his point though, garbage games sells bad, studio goes under. Only the ones taht actually delivers a product that their target audience likes and buys will succeed. There shouldnt be any free handouts. >>741213730american filed taxes.
>>741212780yes, Sandy is right.
>>741213948It's not even necessarily "go woke go broke", I'm more or less saying "if you don't pander to your audience, they won't buy your game." A game like SoM could be made outside of the DEI/ woke era and it would still fail due to its content (and dodgy gameplay).You could genuinely have an idea that includes gay/ minority characters, it's just those character fail to reach a critical mass of excitement regardless of the political motivations behind it.
>>741213865Browns from 3rd world countries pirate everything, they barely count.
>>741212367Microsoft actually have a ridiculous amount of IP, they just don't make any games using those IP. They just squat on them without utilizing any of them
The irony of using steam charts to mock woke games when Valve is woke so you are supporting woke regardless
>>741212602>>741212882There was likely another Schafer led project in the works, as Keeper and Kiln were both smaller titles led by smaller groups within the company. If there wasn't then Double Fine wouldn't be looking for another company to buy them and their current projects.
>>741212713The problems with everything in our entire civilization are decades old at minimum and the rot is just catching up now
>>741213865>unkownits not unknown, they dont have electricity
>>741213760I should have specified in a not gay kinda way, more like a doom 2016 kind of killing guys with a big shotgun
>>741211983>beloved studioswhat in tardation? I don't love any studio, I don't give a shit.
>>741214137minority, sure, essentially all japanese gamesgay?no lmao that shot is actively repellent to anyone and everyone and the gcj trannies dont buy anything anywayunless you mean hot yuri lesbians but you sound like you mean shit like weatern slop like mixtape and just no. Even life is strange the gay slop for fucktards that hate games and love owning chuds only briefly succeeded then fail fail fail failthose products are actively repellent.
>>741211983Didn't they just announce another Senua or is this a Vision of Mana moment where they shoot the studio as the game's walking out the door.
>>741211983I think it's pretty dumb to blame arkane for redfall when the studio didn't even want to make the game.
>>741213760dark ages is just shit though, what the fuck happened to the people that made 2016? eternal and dark ages just blew
>>741214137go woke go broke fits when you make a game in a genre thats heavily skewed towards males.midnight is a action oriented game, creating a bi female character thats black is questionable if you want the action crowd audience......If that wasnt the target audience then yeh enjoy your success catering to the minority.Even wokefying known ip's like wolfenstein is a uphill battle in gaining sales. Take wolfenstein youngblood, the latest game in that franchise which follows the two daughters of the main character... Its the lowest selling wolfenstein game in the franchise history and thats coming straight after the highest selling wolfenstein game lol. Usually hype carries over, but it did not here. Maybe the appeal for wolfenstein was playing a action character dude killing nazis and not a girl killing nazis.
>>741212585Holy fucking destroyed the cultists
>>741214446senua looked like shit and i dont think itll release, we memed too hard and it didn't pass the vibe checklets hope laufey gets canned too
>>741214527in defense of wolfensteinits a singleplayer game
>>741214527maybe going full marvel humor and removing everything people liked and replacing it with retarded marvel wokeslop own the chuds garbage is not a good way to make the chuds buy your game
>>741214532>why is the platform known for mods and not be scammed>not scammed?i wonder anon
>>741214602are you fucking retarded? theyre all singleplayer games if anything youngblod has more online features cause its meant to be played coop online jesus fuck bro
>>741211983Kill all steamchart posters
>>741213948>ugly tranny wokeslop is not games, soPlaystation seem to be fine with those. Xbox not only has shit games aside of Forza but essentially no games. Gears won't save the day.
>>741211983Keeper was oddly the most explicitly off putting game of them all here to me. Who the fuck wants to play as a lighthouse?
>>741214706>are you fucking retarded?i'll be honest. in this case yes. i just looked at the number of players online and assumed the text was about it
>>741211983never played hellbladebleeding edge is one amongst many hero-based games made in America that completely does not understand how to make characters appealing to a large audience, its insane that Overwatch was the only game that had the right state of mind to copy Capcom's philosophy 1:1 and then they fired the guy that made it all work so now its just generic again. the way America continually botches character representation writing and personality needs to be studied, but I think its how ultimate most of the characters are written based on how real life people act around close-but-not-too-close friends rather than having proper dysfunctional synergies. they act like people who visit the barcade together every second sunday so they can have tacos and beer and performatively play street fighter 2. as a result the character designs largely fail because they exist on a performative scale of representation and are a boiling pot of whatever made the front page of artstation that week instead of focusing on central elements and laser-focused appeal. does this make sense?Kiln is probably a decent family game if your kids are 5 years old but it was probably not worth the budget they were giventhis is the first time i've heard about Keepersouth of midnight just reminds me of how much i want to blow up everyone that copies spiderverse animation without understanding why it works for a movie and not for literally anything elseWe Happy Few is a fantastic case of having an interesting premise that pulled everyone in and then completely botching the executionlol
>>741214232>>741212602Bobby Kotick was right about Tim Schafer
>>741211983Lmao the pajeeta CEO realized that they actually need to start making up profits due to not having cheap interest rates to borrow money saw how previous one wanted billions purchasing woke studio
>>741211983Yeah, all of these are past their primes
>>741214910Kotick is a fucking retard that flunked his way to the top. I genuinely cannot think of a single good thing he was ever associated with. At least Schafer worked on some good games.
>>741211983Do you think game studios will reflect on this and start making games consumers want?
>>741215015Kotick saved Activision which ran itself into the ground in a decade despite being THE original third party developer.
>>741214867no worries bro lmao i thought that mighta been it>>741214779no they arent actually, totoki is mad sales are sharply down in the playstation is all ugly lesbian girlbosses era, im hoping theyll do some house cleaning of their own, new god of war, intergalactic, fucking hunters gathering? all these people need sacked yesterday
>>741215036All you care about is how hot the character is, the game can be garbage as long as you can post about that.
>>741215207Sorry do I know you?
The only way microshat could win be back as a customer, is if their Helix used discs and had no form on online connection required. No account set up, no needing to update/activate incomplete game disc keys, no mandatory firmware to run games unless the update is included on disc. I want something completely comparative to the OG and 360 eras. I know its impossible for them to deliver something that simply works out of the box anymore, so any actual value they carry, is as a 3rd party publisher for the remaining competition that does, and even most of the time they suck ass at providing that. Absolute junk heap of a company that i once enjoyed.
Their primary audience is Xbox. Why are you using Steam numbers?
>>741215153His business decisions were shortsighted and directly led to the death of several great development studios only a few years out from him "saving" the company from bankruptcy. Really, the industry would be in a better place had Kotick and his investor friends not saved Activision, as the behaviors he engaged in when trying to save it ended up being directly mirrored by Sony and Microsoft, leading to the exact same results of less games, that are WORSE than before, and the studios behind them get shut down after a few years.
>>741211983IM NOOTICING
>>741215246Brother their games can barely fit into 250GB SSDs what makes you think they can fit into 80GB discs.
>>741211983mfw faggots get fired for making shitty vidya
Will never understand the Xbone after the 360. That should have been a layup. It all led to here.
>>741215207if the characters not got i wont even play your garbage, sorry woke troon gcj cuck, no exceptions, i even get one whiff of feminism, my wallet dries upits funny cause the reason jp ajd korea and china are being successful is because feminist "devs" cease to exist in short order and were heading there too
>>741215207take your meds
>>741215338Apparently games shipping with multiple discs is a lost science of the past millennium.
The fuck is chuds?
>>741215207>let me make his argument about making good game be all about looksokay tranny, take your meds.
>>741215435you ya big chud
>>741215435chuds is what the woke mob call anyone not in their clique
>>741215435just be smartany retarded word retards come up with? ignore it and pretend its underage twitter gribrishfilter and move on. is what i do
>>741211983I am gonna say something controversial:Aside from Redfall, most of the games there are totally fine. Their problem is like:>AAA budget>AA target audienceSomething like South of Midnight was obviously expensive to produce. Believe it or not, the game is not woke. You play as a black chick in Louisiana trying to find her mom. There isn't any sort of MAN BAD or WHITE PEOPLE BAD messaging. It really is just more of a love letter to swamp lore and music. I played it for free, and I enjoyed it overall but I would have never paid full price for it.However, why does the game have what is obviously the budget of an AAA game when it is around 8-10 hours long and primarily focused on story
>>741211983It's likely that my fucking amateur hentai game, which cost $0 to make, is being played by more people right now than these professional games.
>>741214091>garbage games sells bad, studio goes underand then the devs and writers who made games that sold bad get rehired by new studios who proceed to make even more games that will sell bad
>>741213487Yup agreed>There's nothing ethically wrong with having a protag be a minority of some kindThis has been proven so many times already, just make a good fucking game and not blatant wokeslop and people will like it
>>741211983the arkane studio who made redfall already got closed years ago
>>741211983I think Microsoft just bought as much shit as possible because they thought they could create basically the streaming service equivalent for games with Game Pass (aka get morons to pay nonstop for never owning anything). That didn't work out at all and now all of these feet-dragging studios that were more than happy to lazily collect the Microsoft bucks when the gravy train was still on rails are suddenly begging to be "independent." Fuck all these people, it's not hard for indie games to look good when their competition is a complete joke.
>>741211983>bleeding edgemore like bleeding money heh
>>741213487>There's nothing ethically wrong with having a protag be a minority of some kind, but these games will always perform worse because they fail to generate excitement amongst typical players due to demographics.This isn't necessarily true. Jews have produced hugely successful mass entertainment featuring minority protagonists. In fact, Jews have been enormously successful in selling products to white people in which white people are criticized and often openly humiliated.The difference? They have experience with this shit… unlike your typical modern liberals, retarded women whose intellectual baggage consists of whatever some professor said at college, or weak men with less testosterone than my late grandfather.Liberals will take the ugliest Black woman they can find, give her vitiligo, and then wonder why no one is buying the product. The old-school Jews would never be that stupid. They select the most charismatic people, then slowly condition the public to accept them.
>>741215961I believe the Blade game indev at Arkane Lyons has been canned as well, which leaves them in a precarious spot.Rafe Colantonio's long gone by this point, anyway, so there's no real reason to keep them open.
>>741211983It's a start but there's still much nothing to do.
>>741212434Dunno how the studio lasted even this long, especially after DmC
>>741212780Sandy's levels? Meh.Sandy's opinion on this? I agree.
Okay now post the Xbox Gamepass numbers because playtime is the only metric Xbox cares about.
The execs at Microsoft clearly spent 0 time looking at any of the devs until now. There is no other way they would have let ninja theory spend a decade working on literal schizo simulators
>>741218382Phil was too hands off for too long.
>>741214532The only thing that shows is that PC players are not retarded with money. If consolebabies weren't retarded with money, they could afford PCs instead of opting into scams.
>>741218794>PC players are not retarded with money.lol they pay 5x the hardware price to rent games on a DRM store
>>741213487Generating excitement is correct, but it's not an easy thing to do. Sometimes a product just seems to connect with audiences and it's not all that clear why it does. I have no idea what the fuck DESU and Meccha Chameleon are, but they seem to be exciting people. I have no idea why Roblox has more regular than all of Steam, but it does. How the fuck did Terraria sell 70M copies? No idea, but it did. Genshin Impact has whales spending over $100k per account? I'd like an explanation, but I don't think I'll ever get one that's really satisfying.
Eternal victim complex around western video game studios is so weird to see. People for some reason defend studios that got insane amount of money and full support to make anything they want and what they did was releasing commercial bombs that took 7 years to produce. How the fuck is this Xbox or even Microsofts fault? That they were hands off? Isnt that what people want for devs? Reactions to these closures are fucking bizzare and constant mantra how all western video game studios are full of talented amazing savants who cant do wrong is simply insane at this point.
>>741214489Speaking as one of the people who made 2016, people started to leave because of Hugo and then left in droves after the MS acquisition
>>741215435Calling people nazis and every variation of -ist got worn out (especially in these last five years), so the left settled on a heckin chungus insult of 'chud.'There's an old horror movie of the same name, where it's an acronym for 'Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller' or something, but I don't think it comes from there. Incidentally, chudjak memes are usually based and hilarious.
>>741212780Yep. Let the rotten trees collapse.
>>741219509>constant mantra how all western video game studios are full of talented amazing savants who cant do wrongonly dick sucking shills have been saying anything even remotely close to this. "gayyyming industry" and "urnalism" are the same circle jerk of brainwashed, stupid, or sometimes flatout crazy and mentally ill people.Nobody and I mean nobody outside of "studios and urnous" even thinks in that direction. Based devs pretty much do not (because they can't, because censorship and public lynching of truth or even different opinions in the ideological tyrannical hellscape) exist in the mainstream industry.TL;DR: Nah. All of them are pretentious shills high on their own farts. All they ever do is dig into their ass and sniff the finger.
>>741219509It is Microsoft's fault for letting this go one for over a decade.
>>741219509>Eternal victim complex around western video game studios is so weird to see.It's crazy reading articles like this. I'm supposed to "help" the studio?No. The way this works is that game developers make a product for consumers and consumers buy it. The rest takes care of itself. Thats the arrangement.
>creative restrictions
>>741220042Anon even here niggers are saying muttsoft is le retarded for closing literal moneysinks. I wonder if its just Nintendo and Sony fans or what. On social media you even have anti woke faggots screaming at Xbox like what the fuck do people expect? Infinite funding of daycares for adults? >>741220165I agree about that. A fact MS let Spencer be good uncle,throw hundreds of millions at these studios and "let them cook" whatever they wanted with no creative restrictions was insanely retarded. Nintendo and Sony are known to be incredibly hands on and brutal when it comes to pitch approval and thats why Nintendo shits out samey bingtendo games and Sony shits out samey third person cinematic experiences.
>>741211983It's ta start
>>741211983Obsidian next please
if amount of players is an indicator of qualitydoes this mean these are the best games ever?
>>741220352Phil wanted gamepass slop and bought studios he thought woulf deliver. At this point, Obsidian is the only developer releasing shit, but it is still shit. We will see what happens, but my guess is Microsoft is going to unburden itself from studios that aren't making its "core" ip and outsource for exclusives. It will likely be cheaper than spending $200m+ on things like Ninja Theory
>>741220564It seems you lack critical thinking skills. Sad!
>>741211983I see a lot of redditors crying about how it's not fair that xbox is shutting down these studios but these studios have had like a decade to get their shit together and if xbox didn't buy them there's a good chance they would have never made it this far to begin with
>>741220352>Anon even here niggers are saying muttsoftmicrodicks are done. have been for a while, but it's not immediate. Different platforms (phones, consoles, handhelds), losing more of the PC market to Mac and Linux, AI, and so forth, have all been eating at them for over a decade. I don't think MS has anything in them to ever shine again, they're just awaiting slowly going down the spiral of corpo death.And so that analysis applies to all of the daughters, including xbox and gayyming studios. They won't hire talent, they'll just milk existing shit till everything dies.
>>741220564No but it shows what average consumer actually wants and spends money on. No amount of faggots screaming about bringing back old scimblo bimblos just so they will bomb will change that fact.
>>741220752I'd love to ask each and everyone of them if they even fucking bought or played any of these damn games.
>>741212367They own Rare but they aldo keep fucking up with their IP's for the last 20 years
>>741211983ban steam chart threads
>>741211983goodgoodgoodgood
>>741221182>oh no. >not the actual data.eat shit, communist nigger.
>>741220564if you spend 100 million into a ugly nigger artsy fartsy game and is surprised it made no money you shouldn't be allowed to make games ever again
>>741212585If you multiply all the numbers in the OP image by 10 it's still low.
>>741220670>>741220789>>741221602not an argument
>>741212713In 2016 they were trying to turn the Xbox One into a TV box, priced it higher than the PS5, and were making no new IPs.Blaming the Xbox One on wokeness is revisionist, they were not the ones making decisions. If anything the PS4 was closer to woke culture in terms of first party releases. Xbox was just nothing.
>>741212780>should only acquire already proven studios.All these acquisitions are proven studios. The problem is they're buying studios that are on the decline like Bethesda or Blizzard.So... The whole reason they were put up for sale in the first place.
>>741211983Who?
>>741221473The actual data shows steam is small
>>741222157it's not the size, it's what you do with it.
>>741211983management failure
>>741222157>>741222492'ick on 'eck
>>741213273South of Midnight is right there in the OP.
compulsion has made 3 games in 17 years, none of which have been notable they should've been shut down a long time ago
>>741211983Get woke go broke. You were warned.
>>741212585>White text on a slightly different white background
>>741222913>Get woke go broke.But valve isnt broke
Why do gamers get so buttflustered over studios closing? The people involved don't fucking die, they go on to reorganize themselves into NEW studios, which is how all of these studios even came to be originally.Bands break up all the time, and a lot of musicians go on to do better things. That's how you get some of the most famous and renowned music in contemporary history; people moving on and finding new paths and new synergies. Santana has had three periods of distinct sounds and backing bands to compliment them AND was formed by the two leads of Journey. Carlos himself didn't get his fucking fingers chopped off along the way.I'd rather a studio close definitively and its personnel go on to try out different projects than for the name to remain, only for nobody from the original lead staff to have moved on, I.E. Bungie, Retro. It's more honest this way.
>>741211983These studios need to fail completely.>Ninja TheoryTried to sabotage Devil May Cry and got completely dunked on when Capcom released DMCV, have never made a good game in their entire existence.>Double finelied to kickstarter backers by promising a Monkey Island style point and click and instead made a vehicle for their tumblr artist friend and killed any chance of P&C adventure games coming back even a little. Deserved and long overdue.>Compulsion gamesThey screwed the pooch with We Happy Few, which would have been better as a bioshock style single-player experience, and then got in bed with Sweet Baby for South of Midnight and compromised their artistic vision for DEI brownie points. Deserved and well earned.>ArkaneRedfall deserved all the negative reviews and was an obvious cash grab with zero effort or care. The modern team isn't the one that made Prey, and by the time they released Deathloop, the writing was on the wall. This one is a little sad because they WERE once great, but nothing lasts forever and they lost most of their talent.
double fine is the only one I care about even if I've only played psychonauts 1 and 2. Just make another one
>>741211983I didn't even realize that double fine had any new games after psychonauts 2
>>741223406>Why do gamers get so buttflustered over studios closing?we don't give a shit. you're being deceived by some faggots. sincerely, gamers.
>>741212882Psychonauts 2 basically bankrupted them and forced them to sell to Microsoft to get the funding to actually finish the game. Keeper started as a small arthouse game that could've been made by a college student in a year to a small arthouse game that took a core team of over 70 people 4 years to make. Double Fine has always burned time and money.
>>741211983>never played a single game from those studiosthey living or dying actually changes nothing for me.
>>741211983its almost like they were not very profitable
>>741211983Pretty much all of them are antiwhite.So yuh. Great news. Get fucked
>>741220564Amount of players is an indication of commercial performance and player interest. Quality is subjective, but could be defined using both of those criteria.Now please kys immediately for being a disingenuous little faggot by making low quality posts like this.
>>741212585>read the replies>it doesn't count and tears everywherelooks like you were right lol
>>741212367Microsoft wants to sell Xbox off to someone else.
>>741226446
>>741219631damn you really feel the change, dunno if larping but...
>>741213354You're trolling but just to make this clear: GTA has a mod called FiveM on PC which is considerably more popular.
>>741221860My point was that if you put a random Xbox fan with 50 000+ gamerscore in charge of the company, the whole brand would probably be doing twice as well right now
>>741220564>bongo catis that another case of that banana game to make cents?
>>741223406>Why do gamers get so buttflustered over studios closing?butthurt? i'm celebrating shitty devs closing
>>741211983>redfall has the strongest numbers out of themgrim>>741212367they have tons of IPs, they just have no one to turn them into anything of worth. Even the studios that still exists a are an empty shell.
>>741219225>desu steam market item farmer>meccha chameleoncheap friendslop game of the month>bongo catits basically like windows wallpaper app, except its a cat that bongs with its cat paw on screen while you are browsing youtube, or doing homework or whatever, its like a fps counter.>fivemgta roleplay mod>wallpaper engineits in the nameAnyway, outside of slay the spire and dont starve rest is games as a service.>>741220564Enjoy your "quality" game over actually making sales. This is the entertainment industry tranny, if you aint appealing to the largest group of said game genre and instead pivots to cater to the minority, then dont be surprised that your AAA game just becomes a AAA flop.You actually gotta make shit people want.
>>741228063maybe you dont need to sell billions to make a profit...i know its a weird idea for jews but hey
>>741228063there was no need to call him a trans person slur when it was uncalled forbe better
>>741211983Double Fine...Double Fine...I feel like I heard that from something I played.>Brutal LegendDecent game. Odd they turned from third person action into RTS, it wasn't terrible or anything just...weird. Great soundtrack but that's a bit unfair to say since it's a given. Have they really not made anything else good or even decent since then to get canned?
>>741211983Double fine deserves this more than anything, scammer jew that shut down spacebase DF-9 for absolutely no reason and ruined that devs life.
>>741211983first time I am finding out double fine has made anything since broken age
>>741226763You joke, but that motherfucker would KILL for the chance to own the "X" of gaming and then probably release a bunch of bad games to claim they're for his taste or something.
>>741228414Psychonauts 2 five years ago
>>741212585>GTAOa dude hacked me money without saying a word
>>741211983>double fine>belovedLike 20 years ago.
>>741228674Never really got interested since I didn't play Psychonauts 1. Either games really good or just decent?Honestly I'd shill for Brutal Legend, unless you hate jack black super hard it's good pickup when on sale for sure.
>>741211983It's a start, but I require the whole industry to burn to even give a single fuck. Maybe after that I'm willing to pay 40 bucks for a game again. Benis.
>>741211983>tfw got Brutal Legend for a few bucks on sale>ripped the whole soundtrack in good qualityOne of the very very few games that I got extra entertainment out of besides simply playing.
>>741212764Double fine is taking low AAA budgets to make indie game class things, and Arkane dumped everyone who wasn't a woke retard 3 dev cycles ago. Better off taking the dozen good employees from both and giving them a new startup studio.
>>741212780>Forza studio actually got to make fable...and it's a giant sack of crap. Even some of the studios making games need barnacles scraped off, like Obsidian with their art director.
>>741212798They tried. They gave AAA level money to complete fucking scammers and incompetents and they coudln't deliver.
>>741212882>>741225883It turns out Kotick was correct on Shaffer's ability to run a team.
>>741213385Why would cutting loose complete non performers, who've had loads and loads of financial support burn goodwill? I mean dev teams might be more cautious to sell their companies, but it's not even EA level shit here. You're right in that there's regression, but the core to that is the question, what the fuck is the xbox in the first place and why should anywone care? Pic related. THIS IS AN XBOX.
>>741221942As if it's not Microsoft that set the studios up for failure by making them release gay nigger propaganda that few people want to play.
>>741213487>>741215847Corollary: Hiring SBI is the exact opposite of what makes your game with black people a success. SHIVA. Success.GTA SA. Success.NBA JAM. Success.DEF JAM VENDETTA Success.
>>741213295Pretty much./v/ are massive hypocrites who use Steam numbers as the ultimate metric until the game with low numbers is one they like, then they go>"It's a singleplayer game! People played, finished it and then moved on">"Most people play in consoles">"It's a 1v1 game so you don't need a massive amount of players">"It has twice as many players as the series' previous title">"It's not the weekend yet">"It doesn't count">"Ban Steam chart posters!"
I honestly don't blame Microsoft. If you're going to be making weird niche projects you need to get those out faster, there should not be a seven year gap between your releases.
>>741213880>As stupid as it sounds, Halo Studios isn't really a developer. It's an outsourcing coordinator.That...is INCREDIBLY stupid, but I believe it. After the Sheboon era, as in Melisssa, it doesn't sound crazy at all.
>>741214137>"if you don't pander to your audience, they won't buy your game."...and woke, which is by definition transgressive against norms is the opposite of pandering.
>resetrannies are having 80 thread page meltdowns over the makers of KILN and KEEPER being closedkeeeeeeeeeeeek
>>741230327>doesnt understand that there is a difference between spending 100 million+ on a game and expecting a return within one year of release and a game released several years ago not having a high play counttalk about hypocrisy
>>741211983i fucking hate all of these studios for making boring ass games
>>741230569any funny posts?
>>741214187Your definition of woke means NOTHING to me. >>741214294BIG BLACK SHOTGUN. FROM NOHOMO STUDIOS.
>>741214446It didn't have any gameplay shown, so it was either bait to sell the studio or a test to see how much interest there was for anything by that studio. Dont' underestimate the power of your shitposting anons.
>>741214527>a girl killing nazis.Still can work. It's an increased difficulty level. But still, avoiding woke, or as anon puts it "pandering to your audience" is still fucking important.
>>741214842I think it's great, in the zero budget indie class weird shit, like goose game.
>>741214895>We Happy Few is a fantastic case of having an interesting premise that pulled everyone in and then completely botching the executionAnd then, with the MS dollars, they didn't improve execution, but hired SBI instead and bumped the budget to AAA. What a shitshow.
>>741230634See? This is what I mean. You only talk about those things when it's a game you like; otherwise you just smugly post that Steam count as the definitive proof of everything. Same with videogame critics. Would post the hypocrite chart for that but I don't have it with me right now.
>>741230569Are those good games?
>>741230930works better when you dont replace the main character of your franchise with a fucking different characterthat only works when your fanbase is full of fucking drones like crapcum
>>741230930No, it can't. That shit was gay back then, and it's gay now.
>>741215207Well, clearly spending AAA and higher budgets on enough artists to fill a small east coast private art school to make something designed, in the words of the art director on one of these projects to piss off bigoted republicans harder has resulted in games losing billions of fucking dollars collectively. You're certainly not buying this shit enough to save it. So what's the problem again?
>>741215435Moorlocks from the x men. So, Debra Wilson.
>>741231081how is steam playcount valuable data to a 20+ year old game like dude sex 1? we already know what happened to that companywatching a new game like concord or highguard burn to the ground in real time by watching the playcount crater is more interesting
>>741215603I disagree. It was a copy from the other SBI game unknown 9, with magic negros, the emotional trauma of dead slaves and bad guy being her own white ancestor.>However, why does the game have what is obviously the budget of an AAA game when it is around 8-10 hours long and primarily focused on storyBecause that's just how SBI rolls. They're increcibly wastefull. Threw out the lead voice actress's shit to get one of their friends in, demanded rewrites, redesigns, ect, ect.
>>741215641SHOW ME YOUR MUDKIPS.
>>741219225>Meccha Chameleon are,It's like prop hunt, except you draw on yourself, like manually making adaptive camo.
>>741231493>Arguing again using (actually valid and pretty explanatory about how Steam charts are worthless as "proof" against a game)) arguments because you like those games If they were old games you hated you wouldn't post any of that and smugly post>"See? They were shit back then"Which is what makes you a hypocrite.
>>741219631As someone who's seen many MS aquisitions, seems standard for the course. Anything being made out there that could use hype?
>>741220352>>741220603Spenser's idea wasn't full retard, but we see what happens with unlimited funds and hands off managment with these fucks.
>>741212780I kinda agree. Yet I kinda feel that better studios and better games didn't come out after Black Isles and Troika went under.
>>741212532I hope not, I want another game like Pentiment.
>>741213295so why everybody knows these games and nobody knows the others
>>741215435It's a falseflag word, just disregard whoever uses it
>>741229073Psychonauts 1 is one of the best in class. ps2 era character platformer. Goes more for style and surrealist tim burton humor than technical gameplay. Probably Tim Shaffer's best game.
>>741231610The bad guy is white, but her father is also white and a good guy, she has a redneck white neighbor who is her friend and shown to be a good guy. It does portray a black aspect of southern voodoo culture but it doesn't come off as pandering or racialized in any absurd way.
>>741212585Why the fuck would any sane person buy shark cards when PC is full of hackers that will literally shoot money at you?
>>741231814People being retards isn't anything new or magical anon. There's correct ways to read steamchart data, which is most useful for launches, and most comparable in the same era, and there's being the data science equivalent of a flat earth creationist, which is what posting a half dozen games that released 12 years before the steam API was created, or came to steam a year or three after launch, and trying for a 1 to 1 comparison.>>741232223Lets grab MGS for an example. Came out in 1998 and was a PS1 game. Not even trackable until more than a decade later, and then only on steam sales.
>>741232201Unfortunately, with the current fuckheads, the best they can do is Deadfire in the middle of gay pride month. Not that there's anything wrong with that if it's your thing.
>>741212585consoletards really spend thousands on shark cards
>>741231215Well, the new characters also need to be cool, which the wolfenstien girls were most definitely not.
>>741233138Can you imagine how cancerously loaded with kernel anticheat and other shit the GTA6 PC version is going to be?>boot game>welcome consumer, please verify your identity to access GTA6(TM)>have to let your face and head get recorded as you say 'I LOVE MCDONALD's (this month's sponsor) to pass the security check>boot game>GigaDenuvo activates, scans your whole system, and sends Microsoft Recall screenshots every quarter second for as long as the game runs>even if you uninstall you can't remove the anticheat because it wrote itself into your OS's core systems and only a total reformat would help>but reformatting trips the 'installed game on too many machines' limit, so you would need to buy a new copy of the gameIt's going to be unfathomably bad. I know it.
>>741212367Doesn't matter if they're not doing anything with it. They can just revive it later. Honestly, when aquiring a studio, the valuable part is the IP because you can milk it forever on steam with almost 0 maintenance and maybe do a cash grab in the future
>>741213865>Anglos and nips are consoomer cattleTypical.
>>741233543I'm certain it's a reason for the delay. I fully expect something like a GTA specific boot system//, where you have to restart straight into GTA.
>>741211983never heard of any of these
>>741233849The delay is because R* wants to double dip and knows a lot of PC gamers will buy the console release if they get told 'it will be at least a year until the PC release.'>GTA specific boot flowThat would be literally insane and would kill the game stone dead on PC.
>>741212780>designer of QuakeHis levels had to be relegated to a containment episode because he couldn't match the decided style of the game.I'm ok with a lot of the studios getting axed in this round, but I get the feeling the suits and devs aren't going to learn the correct lesson. Games are a product with a target audience, making games for an audience that doesn't have a proven track record of buying games is retarded. Also taking so long to make a game that your target audience is now in a different stage of life is also retarded.It used to be it was fine if the first game in a series failed a bit, because you were releasing a second game next year for a third of the cost. Now that second game releases on the next console and cost 3x as much
>>741233296You're being disingenous.I'm not arguing against your arguments about why using Steam to track the success and quality of several pre-Steam PC games / pre Steam console exclusives is nonsensical What I'm calling out is the fact you're only doing that dissertation in the first place because you like those games or you think they're part of "the good ones".If those were games you loathed you wouldn't do that passionate arguing and instead would be pretty satisfied with just posting the chart.
>>741215603I won't go into the woke part but the AAA budget poblem is real. MS kept spending top of the line budget on games indies can pull now and look worse than PS4 Sony games.
>>741211983kiln is online only btw
>>741219509It is Microsofts fault because they were the lazy here. They bought completely different sstudios with different backgrounds all over and let them wander aimlessly for a decade. There is a reason why only a few kickstarter projects worked. You need the higher ups to give direction to the teams and check on them. Xbox did neither.Sony made a joke of them with their movie games yet MS did not think making a single competitor. Instead they kept making indie projects. Almost all their games are not up to standard AAA games. When even shit tier developers shipped their games with 60fps modes on PS/Xbox they still made excuses why Starfield and such is only 30fps.That is shit tier management.
>>741211983Market is oversaturated and completely unsustainable at all levels.
>>741212585No one on PC would spend money on GTA:O when you can just download a tool to give you infinite money online
>>741211983sort of. wokeness can infect anyone turning them into bad developers. They could've chosen a different path.
>>741211983none of the double fine games look fun
>>741219051>rent games on a DRM storeYou mean like console players?
Hear me out:>indian woman so by definition loves white men and hates indian ones>fires all the anti-white woke faggots>hires white men who aren't woke faggots >profit
>>741240934My games aren't tied to an account steamie
>>741235525>I'm not arguing against your arguments about why using Steam to track the success and quality of several pre-Steam PC games / pre Steam console exclusives is nonsensicalThen why are you posting it in a thread about games that are not either of those>If those were games you loathed you wouldn't do that passionate arguing and instead would be pretty satisfied with just posting the chartIf there was someone passionate about them they would come over and provide the extenuating circumstances, just like that anon did.And which you didn't, rather than argue why the charts in the OP are not telling the whole story, you engaged in whataboutism and posted a bunch of charts you know were a bad faith comparison to shift the conversation. Because you know you can't argue any extenuating circumstances for the OP
>>741211983Back in the day we used to despise when devs were shut down, shoved into the cod mines, or had trouble moving from one console generation to the next.Nowadays we all celebrate when people lose their jobs and studios shutter and I don't even remotely feel bad about it because developers fucking hate franchises they work on and the customer itself.
>>741215603They hired sweetbaby and fired a black woman because she didn't sound black enough. It is woke as fuck you stupid lying faggot. You can even disable combat so they even think their game is bad
>>741242224She's there to kill and spin off Xbox, then stick around until it either gets sold or dies completely.Microsoft isn't changing it's strategy of hiring the cheapest jeets available at all levels. It simply isn't.
>>741230081NTA, realistically, because the gamers and general public are retarded and view any layoffs as a grave sin of society. They should instead have them work comission like tendo did with bayo 2. Avoids getting the blame for a shitty studio going under
>>741213295>>741230327>>741232223>why games that came out in 1990s have low player counts on STEAM in 2026weak bait
>>741219631That motherfucker
>>741219897>but I don't think it comes from thereIt came from reddit's SRS (shitredditsays) subreddit one of the first "whining about other reddit boards on reddit", a board made by extremely deranged SomethingAwful politicals.They started using chud, and yes it's a reference to the movie, after their users started getting pissed off about them saying "manchild", "neckbeard" and "retard" respectively. Because of "ageism" and "ableism". (basically whenever they tried to attack gamers they ended up insulting mostly their fellow subredditors so they had to make up a new insult to stop their little deranged community from imploding)
>>741213260Uh, PC chudThis graph just says "Riot Games"And it's showing a massive boost in profit from Valorant, not League of Legends, based on the change after 2020And the 2024 number shows a sizeable jump thanks to console numbers...............
>>741243404>man, we need a really withering insult to really get these people>but we have to be inclusive and not heckin problematic when trying to think it upIt's literal parody, but such is life in Clown World.
>>741211983I liked Psychonauts and Dishonored/Prey. I don’t care about anyone else. About time Ninja Theory died. They’ve never made a good game. DMC is avenged.
>>741242224BASED
