From the headline I was hoping some execs fell on their sword but nope. Workers get the shaft and higher-ups keep their job to look after the rest of the business.
As always, its the workers who take the fall for greedy executives.
Rather unsurprising but of course sucks for the developers. What were the execs thinking?
They were probably thinking they could get AAA game quality and indie game budgets, just by injecting a well known license.
I kinda hate that about companies. The ones who make hairbrained decisions are never the ones who pay the consequences.
They were thinking they’ll get their golden parachute regardless of their effort, and the workers will take the fall, just like they did here, so fuck project quality!
Make money and cut costs. Always the case.
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They were kind of sabotaged. Who thought it would be a good idea to make a game about golumn? Like why not make a game about a hobbit instead if you have to make a LOTR non-violence game?
Yes! A Hobbit farming sim. Imagine getting to design your own hobbit hole and farm? Id buy a game like that.
A 3d srardew valley style game where you play as a Hobbit would be just… Sooooo good. Nice
The in game potatoes can have the tooltip description, “Po-tay-toes, boil 'em, mash 'em, stuck 'em in a stew.”
Completely unsurprising. How anyone at the studio thought that was acceptable to release is beyond me.
It was a funny meme while it lasted.
Oof. This sucks, it seems that if you don’t have an estabilidade name you can’t have bad “AAA” launch nowadays.
I feel really bad for the employees. Feels like the execs set them up to fail. Hopefully they land on their feet.
Damn, this makes me incredibly sad. Edna & Harvey occupied my mind for quite a long time and shaped me as a person, even if just a little.
Memoria was the standout game for me. After what you said I might try Edna & Harvey though!
I have a lifetime account at LoTRO. Whenever stories about games based on LoTR come up, I am always hoping it will become something awesome, but they all just seem to flop. The ownership rights of the IP are also so fractured and convoluted, it’s kind of a miracle anything actually gets made let alone made well. Maybe someone will actually step up at some point to make a game that really embraces the magic in Tolkien’s universe, instead of trying to change it and them calling it lightning in a bottle.
It’s unfortunate isn’t it. Kind of reminds me of my beloved Halo universe. Most anything that comes out is just hot garbage and it hurts me. I’d even take something mediocre at this point but most of it is just bad.
just think of all the money that this game had poured into it…and the failure is why the Embracer Group (THQNordic) is cancelling games and re-prioritizing it’s studios.
I’m gonna be livid if my Deus Ex Reboot / 3rd sequel got cancelled because of this…
Is a new Deus Ex game confirmed? Because I have heard absolutely nothing about that and was under the impression they were done with the series.
Embracer / THQNordic mentioned last year they had interest and basically wanted to do where cyberpunk failed expectations
God, that’d be amazing but I’ve been burned so many times in the past that I can’t hold my breath.
