LooooooL Arkane Studios could be saved simply because French law is too harsh
>>750260620So they'll slowly chip away at the studio while releasing increasingly mediocre and pozzed games? Great.
go back
>>750260620>schreier
>Good news! They're basically FORCED to keep us alive!!Why would I care about that
>>750260790Go back where?
>>750260620They can just let the studio go independent but keep the IP for themselves. The studio would likely then survive another year as an independent one and then close because it ran out of money.
>>750261140That would be the worst case scenario, checks out, but it can go better.
Is it worse saving tho?
>>750260620France has lots of shit closing down lately. And the law about compensation have been drawtically lowered. someone in my familly was fired after 27 years in a factory and only got 10K euros, about 4 months of salary. Apply this to devs with way lower salaries and way less time at the company and those guys are gonna be left out with a handful money at best. (companies won't pay for the 6 months of state money afterward)
>>750262775According to Tom Howard himself, Blade is almost finished, and the game looks impressive. It would be idiotic to shut down the studio and not release the game, unless Microsoft decides to be total assholes, like closing the studio and handing off the final polish of Blade to an internal team. That would be a shitty move.
>>750260620Just shut them down anyway because you’d be saving more money in the long term. And never do business in France again.
>>750262904So impressive they refuse to show any gameplay for it.
>>750263085They belong to Microsoft, maybe Microsoft does not want this currently precisely because the fate of the studio is in the casino
>blue sky>jason sheier>arkane studiosnone of the above is worth my time or attention
>>750260620>ArcaneThe literal niggers that were forced into making Redfall and 70% of their actual developers that made games worth giving a damn left?That Arcane?Are you happy that that Arcane won't "shut down" like it's still worthy of the name?No, the original Arcane wasn't spotless either, but it actually made games
>>750263256They were happy to shill Redfall even when they knew it was a disaster.
>>750263674>even when they knew it was a disaster.They didn't tho, they thought it was good enough to release and didn't expect such bad reviews from actual players and urinalists.
>>750260620How did so many fall for the labor meme? Why should a failing company be artificially kept around for the sake of le labor? Does no one think about the effect something like that would have on society? Probably also why countries like France have such a hard time staying competitive.
>>750260620That makes no sense.>Have an unprofitable studio>Need to pay out staff between 10-20k to fire them>Or need to pay them 60k+ a yearThe would fold them easily and they wouldn't have a 2nd thought. Microsoft gets hundreds of millions of Euros from the French government. They wouldn't give the slightest shit.Jason Schreier is a retard.
>>750264615Would a company under this either start paying employees less due to financial struggles or are they forced to maintain the pay meaning even slight overextension can cause a company to death spiral?
>>750264868Not entirely sure the in's and out's of french IR law but I think the following can happen>If a company is doing poorly they can offer lower wages>If the employee doesn't take them then they are allowed to let them go>If the company goes under then employees are ultra high priority creditors which means they get the money and severance they are owedIts not really hard to fire people, it is just more expensive in some companies than others. People in America think that giving people basic rights like healthcare or paying them 6 months pay once the business goes under before paying the shareholders is like robbery for some reason.France's IR laws don't even seem that strong. In Australia we have a vote on our agreements, generally every 4 years where we can all push for certain entitlements or go on strike if they low ball us on pay rises.Real jobs give you a pay rise regardless every year to offset inflation anyway.
>>750266117>People in America think that giving people basic rights like healthcare or paying them 6 months pay once the business goes under before paying the shareholders is like robbery for some reasonYou guys don't understand but we have all of this shit and it is very robust. We are the nation that has welfare queens. When you make a lot in America, even in a State with no income tax, like half of it is taken by the Federal government to subsidize the places that you only want to quickly drive through. There are like three government healthcare options.
>>750266487That makes no sense, your tax rates are insanely low. We also have welfare queens but we also make it so that people don't have to take on generational debt for cancer treatments or surgeries. You have a privatised health system that is notoriously bad for not providing services paid for. Why do you think that guy shot the CEO?
>>750260620>positive news>another studio that has been a complete failure for nearly a decade can still cling to lifeDo these people live in a different world? I'm going insane
