li10@feddit.uk to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agoAn important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issuedblog.playstation.comexternal-linkmessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1324arrow-down12cross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.orgpcgaming@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1322arrow-down1external-linkAn important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issuedblog.playstation.comli10@feddit.uk to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square111fedilinkcross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.orgpcgaming@lemmy.ca
minus-squarePunchingWood@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoDo they lose their jobs? They delivered the product, they got paid for their work. I can’t imagine hundreds of people still working on the game beyond release. They’ll probably move on to different projects.
minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-23 months agoA failure this monumental will almost certainly result in Sony taking the entire studio out back and shooting it, just to placate investors. Edit: For context, Sony owns Firewalk - the studio - outright, they’re not just the publisher.
minus-squaretheparadox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoMost big game corps just shutter studios, usually letting them know via the grapevine after a board meeting or twitter post…
Do they lose their jobs?
They delivered the product, they got paid for their work.
I can’t imagine hundreds of people still working on the game beyond release. They’ll probably move on to different projects.
A failure this monumental will almost certainly result in Sony taking the entire studio out back and shooting it, just to placate investors.
Edit: For context, Sony owns Firewalk - the studio - outright, they’re not just the publisher.
Most big game corps just shutter studios, usually letting them know via the grapevine after a board meeting or twitter post…