Jason Blundell Leaves Deviation Games - and this time it’s not a MS studio
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No better time than at a showcase if there was to be one. We know Bluepoint Games was supposed to be part of the last one, but that got cut for some reason.
Hermen said that their game was progressing very well and that he loved their game. So the project should be ok. He was a co founder executive in charge of the creative side, so the game should be something he likes. Their team are mostly former team mates they had in previous studios like Treyarch, Infinity Ward etc so I assume there is no issue with the team.
I'd say:
D.) Activision/MS isn't happy with recent CoD results and is worried with former CoD talent making a game for Sony, so offered him a shit ton of money to go back
E.) Maybe some personal stuff not related to the project, the team, Sony, MS or ABK. Maybe they got a shit ton of money with the Sony signing deal and after achieving certain milestones with the games, and he decided to retire
No, because Kojima is game director, designer, writer and overviews pretty much anything, Kojima is a very rare and special case in AAA games. There is a ton of other talented and experienced people in his studio, but his personal style is visible.
Jason Blundell was an executive at Firewalk: Chief Creative Officer. The Firewalk game had other different very talented and experienced people as director, designers, writers, artists, etc.
Even if not acquired, they signed a deal with a publisher, Sony. This means they got paid when signed the deal and after achieving each milestone during development. Being an executive may mean he got part of that money.
And maybe there was some clause mentioning that if the team successfully achieved certain milestone Sony could decide to acquire them later in the road. So maybe they already achieved this road and Sony already signed that will buy them later (this things take a lot of time and paperwork even before being announced).
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Jason? Never worked there. He left Treyarch in 2019-2020 and helped founded Deviation.
It would have to be Activision alone then........since MS doesn't own them yet. And I'm pretty sure Sony could match whatever it is they may have offered.
I think maybe it was someone else who started respawn and then left before first game came out
Deviation has a lot of key CoD and CoD BO key staff, plus more key staff who worked in top stuff like many top shooters, Sony studios like SSM or ND etc. The guy who left was one of them, an executive of the studio.
Interesting that they don't have any new job postings....
https://www.linkedin.com/careersite/deviationgames
Hope this doesn't mean anything bad. Like a week ago, there were like 20+ postings.
https://www.linkedin.com/careersite/deviationgames
Hope this doesn't mean anything bad. Like a week ago, there were like 20+ postings.
It means they alredy hired these 20+ people, nothing bad. You saw some examples in this thread of people mentioning they joined the studio this week.
