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Activision Closes Budcat; Bizarre Closing On Friday, February 18th
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Fortinbras
Member
Thank you Bizarre Creations for creating some of the best racing games on consoles. I bought every single one of them since Formula 1.
nextgeneration
Member
meppi said:
Unfortunately, it's not going to do any good. We're too small of a group to make any kind of dent in their business.
I wont say those necessarily made PGR3 and 4 bad, but them, or no other racer was able to capture or replicate the magic in PGR2 that made driving cars of all classes fun. You could pick any car and have fun pretty much.Raide said:Damn, after PGR2 it all went downhill. Way too much focus on super-cars, instead of the actual skilful driving. I loved doing the speed challenges in family 4x4's.If they ever bring PGR back, they need to carry on as PGR2 started.
ClosingADoor
Member
FoneBone said:
It's amazing how they expect the first installment in a new franchise to be a multi million succes. It took COD four games to get to the level is it now.
Recent example is probably Dead Space. First part didn't set the charts on fire, second is doing way better.
You can't expect a new franchise to be a large succes, it takes time and you probably need a few good games in a series to make a name in racing games where you have competition from decade old series like Need for Speed, Gran Turismo, Forza, DiRT.
diffusionx
Gold Member
Sad that Bizarre is closing down. Their games, outside of Blur, were consistently excellent for 10+ years. I'll play some PGR2 this week in their memory.
Games are really expensive to make. A few bombs can wipe out a huge chunk of that CoD money, and then what are you left with?
Look at EA. They have been "strengthening their brand recognition" and have been working to "build up new IPs"... and they've been losing money, consistently, for years. And FWIW, when their franchises were on top, they were doing the same thing Activision is doing now. It's a risky business and these companies are trying to insulate themselves from that.
SolidusDave said:
Games are really expensive to make. A few bombs can wipe out a huge chunk of that CoD money, and then what are you left with?
Look at EA. They have been "strengthening their brand recognition" and have been working to "build up new IPs"... and they've been losing money, consistently, for years. And FWIW, when their franchises were on top, they were doing the same thing Activision is doing now. It's a risky business and these companies are trying to insulate themselves from that.
Imperial Hot
Banned
I wonder what these guys are doing this last week at work. I am sure they don't have any projects going on.
They should party it up and go ape-shit in their office. Go out with a bang.
They should party it up and go ape-shit in their office. Go out with a bang.
butter_stick
Banned
meppi said:
Yeah. Fuck you, business, for not continuing to lose money!
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
It's amazing how many games get binned.TheOddOne said:
_UNRELEASED:_
Jade Empire 2 (360/PS3/PC)
True Crime 3&4 (PS2/XBX/GCN/360/PS3)
Gun 2 (360/PS3)
Nintendo's Thunder Rally (GCN)
StevieP said:
Turning into go indie or go home IMO. Alternative is you can make games you don't like, for megacorps who will boot you out the door even if you are successful.
With PC market opening up to all sorts of distribution I hope more alternatives to mass market hype games come through. Even as I type this magicka, a game made by 8 Swedish students, is still within top 10 revenue makers on steam.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
nextgeneration said:
Hopefully developers see these closings and think twice about making a deal with the devil if they value their jobs and the health of their company.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Hopefully this will spawn several little companies who will later become successful.
