I'm really hoping MS can get this game back on track. It has so much potential.

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    1 year ago

    Arcane's studios are no longer the same ones that brought us dishonored unfortunately and I don't think it is gonna get better any time soon. Really hope I'm wrong there was a time where Arcane was my favorite people making games.

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      I think this is the real problem with the gaming industry. Development studios are treated as if they're sources of IP when in fact it's more about the people working for them.

      A good dev team is the people who made the games. A team gets bought out by a big publishing giant and it seems they inevitably lose the people who made them great.

      That's not to say big publsiher owned studios can't make great games but I'd argue the best games are coming from the indy studies whether that by one man bands like ConcernedApe or big independent studios like CD Projekt Red.

      Also CD Projekt Red was highly motivated to fix Cyberpunk as it's a smaller studio, and pretty much their entire future business needed it to be fixed and work. They need and want to make more Cyberpunk games. Microsoft has zero motivation to fix Redfall - it was a commercial failure in a big coroportation; they will just dump it and move on but also be more averse to trying to make new IP.

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        1 year ago

        It's definitely due to the industry. Turnover is insane and it'd not the employees faults