As a big Dead Space fan I had to. Played it a little bit, it sucked, I hated it, I stopped.
They simply failed. Especially with such a huge budget.
Playstation backed studio Deviation games hit with layoffs
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They simply failed. Especially with such a huge budget.
I liked it. Had the right atmosphere. Flawed and undercooked in many ways but much potential for a sequel
- Pixelopus axed
- Deviation game axed
- Dreams axed
I hope media molecule can recover with something intersting. They make good games, they need to get back to making games. Even the games inside Dreams that they made were really good
More GaaS projects will be cut. It won't stop here. Sony came too late to the party. They can't just make a GaaS, it needs to be fresh and innovative to gain success in a saturated GaaS market. Good Luck Sony
At least the Destiny 2, GT7 and MLB have been winning horses. The Bungie new IPs and TLOU seem very safe bets. Firewalk, Haven and Deviation looked like safe bets too, but apparently the Deviation horse ran in the opposite direction and hit a wall.
Today I'll all the day at a retrogaming event, but at night or tomorrow I'll investigate to see if I can see the magnitude of the layoff.
The game he was directing was canned, so he got butthurted and left. Or he got fired. There were some leaked artwork and felt a pretty generic space game, not the typical iconic Sony game. Their next game, GoW2018 instead was great.
The canned one I really liked was the Sucker Punch they were working on, which when canned/rebooted ended being GoT.
Good, i am glad. I hope they fire jimbo, hulst and stop fucking around and will make SP games which are strongest PS side.
firing jimbo and hulst wouldn't make playstation studios go back to solely single player games
Oh, grow up. Acting like making multiplayer games is a moral sin or something. Even Nintendo is doing it with Splatoon, but -- "nO, kEep mulTeEplaYUr gAymZ off mAi pee esS faiv!"
It needed a different artstyle and different characters. It was ugly on the outside and the inside.
Going after GaaS is not a problem if it doesn't get in the way of them making single player games. Buying studios or pattering with other devs to make them is preferable to hoping their already owned studio will succeed in transitioning to GaaS.
What you don't want is to end up with a bunch of stuff like Bleeding Edge, Redfall, Grounded and Sea of Thieves in place of proper AAA single player games.
Destiny, MLB and GT are a solid foundation for their GaaS.
What you don't want is to end up with a bunch of stuff like Bleeding Edge, Redfall, Grounded and Sea of Thieves in place of proper AAA single player games.
Destiny, MLB and GT are a solid foundation for their GaaS.
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This game was really polished. The modes and network side was not . I don't understand how they made a car game with no races mode.
I guess they didn't want to step on Gran Tourismo toes. drive club , motor storm , destruction derby (allstar was a offspring?)
All dead.
I don't know if this deviation team will make it through this gen.
How can the Firewalk, Haven and Deviation games be "safe bets"?
With Bungie and Naughty Dog we at least know they can make successful IPs and good multiplayer games or modes. With Firewalk, Haven and Deviation we know absolutely nothing. We haven't seen anything. All we know is that they're working on live service games. That's it. So there is still a big ? hovering over Haven and Firewalk. Let's see the games first.
Why the hell would the fire Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst? SIE is making more money than ever before.
Because now they make games you don't like? Sony doesn't only make games for you. There are multiplayer fans out there. They want games too.
That's why the have canceled Deviation's live service game and PixelOpus singleplayer game. Sony didn't like what they saw and canceled it. And I'm sure they have canceled even more. We just didn't hear anything about it. Deviation and PixelOpus were just easy to spot because we heard about the layoffs (Deviation and Final Strike Games) and team-closure (PixelOpus). I'm sure there are some internal unannounced projects at PS Studios that got canceled too. It happens. This isn't something new. It happened before Sony's live service plans and it will continue to happen. Bad/mediocre games are getting canceled. There are already enough Anthems and Redfalls out there.
Former PlayStation Boss Says They 'Cancel So Many Games'
Shuhei Yoshida, the previous president of PlayStation, explained canceling all these games was done to “save” the devs
kotaku.com
Exactly.
Is MLB and GT making them much money ”Gaas” wise?
Even Deviation games said there will be single player story mode. Im fine with Gaas in multiplayer mode as long as we get great single player modes along with it, like GT7 etc or plenty of Single player games too
I agree that just because it's backed by Sony doesn't mean they are reasonable, it's not even Sony-owned studio.
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Sony canceled their game so Deviation Games (and Final Strike Games) had layoffs because the project is dead.
A Sony game got canceled. So it's a Sony story.
