Take-Two Is Shutting Down Intercept Games (Kerbel Space Program 2) & Roll7 (Rollerdrome, OlliOlli World)
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Regardless of whether the games were good or not, I keep thinking that for every employee who loses his or her job there is a family behind also affected.
The founders either likely wanted to cash out or during COVID companies the size of T2 provided security.
thanks Strauss Zelnick. enjoy the bonuses that will pointlessly make your mountain of money a bit higher.
This got me extremely livid. FFS...
Rollerdrome is an awesome and fun experience, I really liked the OlliOlli games, and Not A Hero was hilarious! Take Two is a fucking blight on this industry. Those execs are greedy fucking assholes.
I hope the devs regroup and manage to make something new. It sucks they're forced to go back to square one. FUCK!
Rollerdrome is an awesome and fun experience, I really liked the OlliOlli games, and Not A Hero was hilarious! Take Two is a fucking blight on this industry. Those execs are greedy fucking assholes.
I hope the devs regroup and manage to make something new. It sucks they're forced to go back to square one. FUCK!
Roll7 sent me stickers and a fingerboard promoting OlliOlli 2 way back when.
This fucking sucks.
This fucking sucks.
It's hard to even gather the energy to be angry anymore, I'm becoming desensitized. I love Rollerdrome though. This is awful.
That fucking sucks for both teams, but damn Roll7 was a huge indie favorite. Loved the Ollie Ollie games, Not A Hero is a ton of fun, and Rollerdrome is fucking incredible I was so so excited to see what they had planned next
Put me in the camp that didn't know Roll7 as owned by Take-Two. Horrible to laid off so many talented people. OlliOlliWorld was ana amazing game and deserved more love. RollerDrome was a breathe of fresh air. Loved the art style and mechanics.
I haven't played Kerbal 2 yet. I loved the first game, even though I was bad at it. I was waiting to build a new PC to check out the sequel. It blows that they are being shut down.
Fuck Take-Two.
I haven't played Kerbal 2 yet. I loved the first game, even though I was bad at it. I was waiting to build a new PC to check out the sequel. It blows that they are being shut down.
Fuck Take-Two.
I wonder if some rich people will get even richer, that's what's important to me. If rich people aren't getting richer, what's the point of anything
Being bought by such big corps is a death sentence... I'm a big fan of Roll7, they didn't deserved this...
I've met the Roll7 developers IRL. They're so cool and so are their games. This really sucks, and I hope the people behind them get to make games again.
Seems like one of the strengths of Era would be a community that can organize to petition Rockstar (and any other pub that does shit like this) to reconsider - a kind of organized community response. I say this well aware that i don't have time to take it on, but I'd sure love to contribute to it.
"we can't force our GTA devs to crunch more so the smaller studios we were supposed to invest in can get fucked instead"
They sold themselves to Take-Two as a means of having more security and not having to search for new funding and partners for each game, but that obviously wasn't a wise move once the money train ended for publishers.
This isn't really how corporations work. That secures the specific teams working on that franchise at most, but it doesn't act as a parachute for the whole company, and really that is reckless as hell conceptually. I work in a nuclear power plant among 4 other plants, if mine is doing poorly and the others are doing amazingly, they are still gonna shut my plant down. This is effectively how all businesses are ran to ensure they are all doing sufficient or growing financially, or at least turning a profit.
Of course, one can argue the morality of it all, but still. Nintendo seems to be one of the few huge companies that sort of does operate that way, but even that isn't without reason. They respect their developers and realize they are vital to keeping their brands powerful, and propping up their entire business, but if Nintendo was no longer a platform holder, they likely would end up having to make decisions like this far more. Simply put, a good platform holder knows you need diversity and portfolio builders to make the best healthy ecosystem you can, but once you're in third party space, it's pure cut throat top money seeking only, which is what we're seeing a lot of recently.
Rollerdrome was cool as hell. Hope they land somewhere quickly cuz that seems like major talent they're letting go
Realistically this isn't new. Development has been glacial since the early access launch.
If anything they ought to have thrown more assets at such a great IP with the mind-share it has rather than cutting staff.
It's usually the owners looking for a payday.
But also being an indie dev can be extremely volatile, so even the rank and file will probably agree to it for stability reasons.
