• PunchingWood@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Do they lose their jobs?

    They delivered the product, they got paid for their work.

    I can’t imagine hundreds of people still working on the game beyond release. They’ll probably move on to different projects.

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      3 months ago

      A failure this monumental will almost certainly result in Sony taking the entire studio out back and shooting it, just to placate investors.

      Edit: For context, Sony owns Firewalk - the studio - outright, they’re not just the publisher.

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      3 months ago

      Most big game corps just shutter studios, usually letting them know via the grapevine after a board meeting or twitter post…