Meta is closing Ready at Dawn

[Fenton]

• Ready at Dawn Studios, part of Oculus Studios, is closing permanently, effective immediately.
• The studio produced some of the highest-rated VR games ever, including Lone Echo, Lone Echo 2, and Echo VR, as well as some PSP classics like God of War and Daxter.
• Meta says that Ready at Dawn employees are encouraged to apply to other studios within the Oculus Studios umbrella.
• The reduction was made to meet the new Reality Labs budgetary ceiling rather than as a proactive cost-saving initiative.

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[JAHGamer]

This is sad, Meta should've at least let them become independent because they're actually talented. Hopefully they can land on their feet. Sony should've bought them when they had the chance

 

[John Elden Ring]

They had their shot with 1886 and sadly missed the target, it would have happend eventually

 

[anonpuffs]

Oof

 

[Etifilio]

if Sony is smart enough, they'll bring these devs into a new SIE studio

 

[KvallyX]

if Sony is smart enough, they'll bring these devs into a new SIE studio

Sony dropped them hard one month after the release of 1886. Which is sad, because I personally think the game is awesome and better than the critics scored it.

 

[Johnic]

Ah, shit. They're a great studio. Wish Sony picked them up.

 

[AllBizness]

Ah, shit. They're a great studio. Wish Sony picked them up.

Shinobi said they were planning a sequel to The Order 1886 when Meta bought them. Such a shame

 

[Yurinka]

RIP.

I'd have prefered that instead of shutting them they'd have sold the studio to Sony.

Who right now between new studios being created plus the ones recently acquired and without known upcoming first party VR games, plus focusing now on profitability and paying the cost related to relatively recent acquisitions, I'm not sure if right now they'd consider it's a good moment to acquire.

I loved their games for Sony, even -with its flaws, which I bet would have been fixed in a sequel- The Order. I didn't play their VR games, but I heard they're also very good.

Let's hope Sony studios hires at least the key talent that still remained there. Several people already left many years ago, some of them went to Sony studios. They are in Irvine, California. So they could find them a place at ND, Insomniac, SSM, San Diego, their San Diego Creative/Visual Arts or the ex-Deviations upcoming SIE team.

 

[KvallyX]

Would be nice if Ready till Dawn could find a way to go back and self publish.

 

[Danja]

if Sony is smart enough, they'll bring these devs into a new SIE studio

Sony is partially to be blamed for their demise

 

[AllBizness]

Sony is partially to be blamed for their demise

How Sway?

 

[Danja]

How Sway?

Killing their business relationship lead to everything that happened after. They should have stuck with them especially since The Order 1886 was profitable in the end

 

[AllBizness]

Killing their business relationship lead to everything that happened after. They should have stuck with them especially since The Order 1886 was profitable in the end

According to Shinobi on the purple forum they were going to start working on a sequel to The Irder 1886 when they were bought by Meta. That tells me their relationship with Sony was just fine.

 

[Danja]

According to Shinobi on the purple forum they were going to start working on a sequel to The Irder 1886 when they were bought by Meta. That tells me their relationship with Sony was just fine.

A sequel was never Greenlight and you're telling me Sony was gonna allow a sequel almost 5 years after they pretended RAD and The Order 1886 both never existed?

 

[AllBizness]

A sequel was never Greenlight and you're telling me Sony was gonna allow a sequel almost 5 years after they pretended RAD and The Order 1886 both never existed?

Obviously the devs felt confident enough to pitch a sequel to Sony, what we dont know is if they got to pitch it before Meta bought them.

 

[Danja]

Obviously the devs felt confident enough to pitch a sequel to Sony, what we dont know is if they got to pitch it before Meta bought them.

A sequel was never greenlight though? The directors of the game spoke about a sequel before the game was even out. That they had bigger plans but they spent 2.5 years building the engine alone. They also said they wanted to include Multiplayer but couldn't but would for a sequel.

However Sony did not want a sequel



Nasty work on Sony's end, the game sell well enough over 1.3 million digitally alone. Threw away a developer that was dedicated to PS even after The Order 1886, one of the Co-Owners were one of the few people back in 2020 fiercely defending the PS5 amongst the nonstop media propaganda about how the hardware was weak and trash.

 

[Petekilla]

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[Eggman]

Sony is partially to be blamed for their demise

This is such horseshit blaming Sony. They funded The Order 1886 for 5 years and they released a 5 hour mediocre game.


The CEO replaced himself with an exec from Blizzard shortly after The Order released with the goal or publishing their own games and others games and owning their own IPs.

They clearly didn't want to work on an IP owned by someone else and had aspirations to be a publisher.

Blizzard's Paul Sams joins Ready at Dawn as new CEO

Irvine, California-based Ready at Dawn - known for The Order: 1886 and PSP titles like Daxter and God of War: Ghost of …

www.gamesindustry.biz

They then proceeded to release some VR games and got bought by Oculus and then proceeded to release nothing and got shut down

I'll repeat again, blaming Sony is horseshit. They have no one to blame but themselves. Take that minsinformation garbage to Resetera

 

[Danja]

This is such horseshit blaming Sony. They funded The Order 1886 for 5 years and they released a 5 hour mediocre game.


The CEO replaced himself with an exec from Blizzard shortly after The Order released with the goal or publishing their own games and others games and owning their own IPs.

They clearly didn't want to work on an IP owned by someone else and had aspirations to be a publisher.

Blizzard's Paul Sams joins Ready at Dawn as new CEO

Irvine, California-based Ready at Dawn - known for The Order: 1886 and PSP titles like Daxter and God of War: Ghost of …

www.gamesindustry.biz

They then proceeded to release some VR games and got bought by Oculus and then proceeded to release nothing and got shut down

I'll repeat again, blaming Sony is horseshit. They have no one to blame but themselves. Take that minsinformation garbage to Resetera

Why would they not want to start owning their games after Sony refused to greenlight a sequel? Who wants to work on a game and engine, while having the game sold millions only to be told... Sorry no sequel for you.

I've never posted on ResetEta or have an account there... .

Fuck Sony for their part in RAD demise