Quantic Dream's next game might have competitive multiplayer and microtransactions, new job ads suggest

[kubus]

Didn't see this posted anywhere else yet, except on Gamer.nl. Quantic Dream has new job openings, two of which sound quite interesting: a "Senior Game Designer - Competitive" and one for a "Senior Game Economy Designer". Both are for their Paris location.

Senior Game Designer - Competitive:

As part of its development program, and for its ambitious upcoming productions, QUANTIC DREAM is expanding its Game Design team to strengthen the current team and participate in improving and developing Game Design.​

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Requirements:​

• You have solid experience as a Game Designer on a competitive or strategy game where you were in charge of balancing the game;
• Familiarity with the problems of balancing a competitive game or strategy game;
• Good knowledge of competitive games which you play regularly;

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And for the Game Economy Designer:

As a Senior Game Economy Designer, you will be responsible for all aspects of the game's economic model. You will design the virtual products offered by the game, and establish metrics that allow you to measure consumer response to these virtual products during user tests and after release.

Using those metrics, you will offer data-driven recommendations to team management in order to tune purchase drivers and pricing in order to ensure the game's financial performance.​

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They have a really long list of open jobs, so I'm wondering how far into production they are with their newest project. For those wondering, they're not bound to Sony anymore so their next game will be multi platform. Looking at the above two job listings it might also not be exclusively single player game anymore, or they might be working on multiple projects at once. NetEase did make a significant investment in the studio after all.​

I really enjoyed all the games they made, so I hope they don't deviate too much from their 'template' so to speak (though all of the problematic content can go away of course)​

inb4 pay $2 to unlock shower scenes.​

 

[Adulfzen]

fuck Quantic Dream

 

[8bit]

Jason Racing.

 

[criteriondog]

Wow for some reason I somehow crossed this with Media Molecule and was so lost until I reread the title. Don't know how my brain caused that.

 

[Typhon]

Because when I think Quantic Dream, I think competive multiplayer /s.

 

[Beth Cyra]

After seeing how terrible of a person Cage is and how he runs that company I won't be able to support them no matter what the make.

Id hope the media would remember how blatantly racist and homophobic Cage is but given how they treat Ubisoft I'm sure they will continue to treat them like business as normal.

 

[Last Jon Standing]

Buy emotions, share emotions, feel emotions together.

 

[TheStebe]

Competitive Shaun Shouting

 

[5taquitos]

Pass

 

[terminaljeremy]

 

[Fat4all]

you have to purchase the emotions separately

$2 per shower scene

 

[mentok15]

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Are they real quotes?

 

[L Thammy]

will it have david cage's letter of resignation

 

[L Thammy]

Are they real quotes?

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Yep. They came out or were referred to when he was in court.

Inside the Quantic Dream vs. Le Monde & Mediapart trial following the 2018 reports: "I'm not under oath, so can I lie?" (verdict on July 8th) News

Source: Solidaires Informatique (French workers union) https://solidairesinformatique.org/2021/05/31/quantic-dream-vs-lemonde-mediapart/ Wait, what trial? https://kotaku.com/detroit-developer-quantic-dream-sues-french-media-over-1825453518 Edit June 3rd: Missing a small D. Cage quote. Edit...

www.resetera.com

 

[MondoMega]

will it have david cage's letter of resignation

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They should include it as a little paper insert with every copy of the game (digital owners will get it in the mail).

 

[AudioEppa]

I love QD.

I don't want multiplayer from them.

Give me Detroit 2.

 

[StiLteD]

Easy skip list for me automatically. David Cage is a POS. I won't support work cultures like that.

 

[GeoGonzo]

On one hand, it seems outside of their usual scope... but another way of looking at it is that they're branching out from only abusing some of their employees to also exploiting some of their customers.

 

[DieH@rd]

I'm open for them finally changing up their formula, but a simple job posting does not mean their next big project will be a MP game.

There is always a chance they will work on some mercenary jobs [like Remedy, Obsidian and many other independent teams do] in order to provide funds for bigger projects.

 

[Catshade]

Does this mean they're moving away from David Cage? That would be one positive thing among all their mess...

 

[kubus]

I'm open for them finally changing up their formula, but a simple job posting does not mean their next big project will be a MP game.

There is always a chance they will work on some mercenary jobs [like Remedy, Obsidian and many other independent teams do] in order to provide funds for bigger projects.

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Certainly true, but the job posting do explicitly mention that they're looking for long-term employees in order to make their next "ambitious projects".

Also seems inefficient to take on external projects which they have zero experience in and have to specifically hire new talent for in order to execute them, but that's also just me speculating. Could also be an opportunity for them to experiment and maybe lay the groundwork for future projects, of course.

 

[Genetrik]

I love QD.

I don't want multiplayer from them.

Give me Detroit 2.

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SAME!

 

[Salty Rice]

In the era of No-Pats, 100 David Cages are dropping on a island.

 

[AstralSphere]

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Fuck anything this studio makes while these pieces of shit are still there.

 

[matrix-cat]

This is exactly what QD's games have been missing

 

[AstralSphere]

I'm not under oath, so can I lie?

Cage's games are well-written masterpieces.

 

[CandySTX]

Oh. They're still around?

I figured they had gone away after the utter shit-show of the last couple of years.

 

[DrFreeman]

Yeah good luck with that. Sony dropped him and I doubt any other publisher will pick this up.

 

[Acquiescence]

I'll wait until some solid details emerge before I go into full panic mode.

Needless to say, multiplayer and microtransactions are not the sort of thing I want to see in a QD game.

 

[kubus]

Yeah good luck with that. Sony dropped him and I doubt any other publisher will pick this up.

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Don't think that will be a problem as they are a publisher themselves since 2019.

 

[mentok15]

Yep. They came out or were referred to when he was in court.

Inside the Quantic Dream vs. Le Monde & Mediapart trial following the 2018 reports: "I'm not under oath, so can I lie?" (verdict on July 8th) News

Source: Solidaires Informatique (French workers union) https://solidairesinformatique.org/2021/05/31/quantic-dream-vs-lemonde-mediapart/ Wait, what trial? https://kotaku.com/detroit-developer-quantic-dream-sues-french-media-over-1825453518 Edit June 3rd: Missing a small D. Cage quote. Edit...

www.resetera.com

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Damn what a piece of shit.

 

[Alpheus]

LOL if they decide to push David Cage out (after all the heinous shit he pulled) I wonder how many pixels will be needed to render David's full range of emotions when he finds out he's out.

 

[Patitoloco]

Yeah good luck with that. Sony dropped him and I doubt any other publisher will pick this up.

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If by dropped them you mean their very-known-since-2008 three game exclusivity deal ended, then yes.

QD is a publisher themselves.

 

[DrFreeman]

Huh… Just realised the verdict on the Quantic Dream court case will be delivered on July 8.

Don't think that will be a problem as they are a publisher themselves since 2019.

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🤢

 

[ByWatterson]

The battle pass will actually just be a hostile workplace lawsuit against David Cage.

 

[PetrCobra]

Yeah, first/second party games exist to enhance a platform's library, not to sqeeze as much profit out of consumers as possible, so they didn't need those things until now.

 

[BlueManifest]

Stuff like this always seems to happen when a company becomes multiplatform

 

[Hadok]

maybe a mobile game?
I doubt they will stop developing narrative games.

 

[terminaljeremy]

Are they real quotes?

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they are lines quoted in the recent legal case that he is alleged to have said in the workplace

 

[FormatCompatible]

Fuck Quantic Dream and David Cage.

 

[Shopolic]

Maybe they need more money to make their next game and thought what's better than a multiplayer game with microtransactions to make money?!

 

[cowbanana]

Oooh, two things I hate in games.

 

[Modest_Modsoul]

Multiplayer with the fastest & precise QTEs to win in online death match.

 

[Deleted member 8593]

Press X to pray to RNJason 🙏

 

[AstralSphere]

Stuff like this always seems to happen when a company becomes multiplatform

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Or when a company has been hit with so much controversy it starts to frantically scramble for funding and profit because no publisher wants anything to do with them anymore.

 

[Crossing Eden]

I love QD.

I don't want multiplayer from them.

Give me Detroit 2.

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The last thing the gaming industry...nah, the world, needs is "David Cage's awful take on racism and how you should be a model minority while protesting to succesfully make a difference" 2. Where in gamers do their damndest to pretend that it's not actually a game about racism.


I genuinely hate Detroit Become Human's story. And how this industry's attempts at being validated by the film industry includes praising David Cage stories instead of rightfully tearing them apart.

 

[FormatCompatible]

The last thing the gaming industry...nah, the world, needs is "David Cage's awful take on racism and how you should be a model minority while protesting to succesfully make a difference" 2. Where in gamers do their damndest to pretend that it's not actually a game about racism.


I genuinely hate Detroit Become Human's story. And how this industry's attempts at being validated by the film industry includes praising David Cage stories instead of rightfully tearing them apart.

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It is DEFINITELY not about racism

David Cage can go eat shit.

 

[Crossing Eden]

It is DEFINITELY not about racism

David Cage can go eat shit.

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We literally live in the timeline where the game that baited people with the ass android has more valid things to say about nature of humanity as a whole, and somehow, despite literally having lore stating that the androids can feel sexual pleasure or some other stupid shit that people say is actually like, totally deep and metaphorical, it ends up feeling less cringe and more earnest than Detroit Become Human which has an exchange like this, a black woman talking to a Caucasian android about how they relate when it comes to oppression, because apparently in this weird android dystopia racism is over. As people have redirected that hate at androids:

That's how bad Detroit is. It's that bad.

 

[medyej]

The last thing the gaming industry...nah, the world, needs is "David Cage's awful take on racism and how you should be a model minority while protesting to succesfully make a difference" 2. Where in gamers do their damndest to pretend that it's not actually a game about racism.


I genuinely hate Detroit Become Human's story. And how this industry's attempts at being validated by the film industry includes praising David Cage stories instead of rightfully tearing them apart.

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OMG this clip is amazing.

 

[Deleted member 4976]

Maybe it'll be a game definitely not about racism where you'll go online and get trash talked by kids definitely not throwing racist slurs at you.