Stray was excellent
It’s kind of funny. The studio wanted to spin off to be independent. So everybody resigning, is effectively doing the same thing. It’s not like there’s big heavy machinery they have to move. The studio is the people.
If they start their own company, they have successfully totally spun off
Eh, reputation is still a thing and they probably aren’t getting to keep any of the IPs they worked on, like Stray or Outer Wilds. They also won’t get to keep whatever cash the company might have had in reserve. My understanding is that the idea of spinning off a studio to be indie is that you get to keep developing your IPs to some extent, you still have your brand and your reputation, etc. Otherwise they probably would have done this at the beginning.
So, no, they didn’t really spin it off heh.
They didn’t make outer wilds (the parent company Annapurna interactive published it)
Yeah but publishing is still work though. It’s become much easier to self publish on Steam as an small developer, but there is still value in having a professional publisher. It’s hard to say how much value and sometimes the publisher takes up more than their fair share, but it’s not like zero value either.
Fair, but the point was that the parent company is unaffected by this, the people who work there haven’t quit afaik.
Edit: hold up I just had a double take at the article and it’s the publisher where people quit lmao. I actually can’t read goddamn ignore me…
Edit 2: Ok I see what confused me now. On another site I read that the Alan wake deal is unaffected because that’s with the parent company Annapurna Pictures. Mixed them together.
So, no, they didn’t really spin it off heh.
Did you tip your fedora after you typed this?
I’d be willing to bet with the right PR this would only strengthen the reputation of whatever studio they decide to create next.
This is not the stray team, the article picture confuses the story. They should’ve used the Annapurna logo instead but they probably wanted more clicks.
They’re just part of the publisher though, they didn’t make the games.
Well damn. I hope they can get a start under a new company. Annapurna has been kind of a seal of approval for high quality, small dev team games that weren’t the usual triple A bullshit or obvious cash grabs.
Isn’t it enough that shitty games have to bear that triple A warning label these days?
Hey now, not every AAA game is shitty. The Monster Hunter games have been gorgeous and I’m excited for their next game
They have a solid catalog and a lot of talent on board. I hope everyone is able to land on their feet. It would be a shame to lose out on those great minds.
They all quit, so I think they have a plan.
I’m rooting so hard for them.
It’s weird. Looking at my game catalog, a large percentage of my favorite games are all Annapurna. I will miss them.
They all quit, so presumably they’ll attempt to establish themselves as a new publisher. I am.very much hoping for an announcement of that soon. If Annapurna, the parent company, was trying to blend their agencies, it’ll be interesting to see if they can maintain the quality of their productions.
They should start their own company with blackjack and hookers.
With blackcats & chonkers!!
Was t there just an announcement that they’d be partnering up with remedy for control 2 and control universe media?
And now when you buy their games none of moneys will go to the actual devs??
(Or do they get royalties?)Arr, what a shitty system we built for ourselves.
