www.videogameschronicle.com
When we hear Free Redical, it makes it sound like the whole original team is there. when in fact there are probably 90% of the staff are gone and the remaining are few pink and purple haired dudes that spend their time on twitter fighting normal people.
what was their master plan anyway?
Get big saudi money, a deal that fell through.
To blitz the market and be successful while spending as little money as possible on actual game development...
THQ Nordic to the rescue! Their first course of action should be to give give the first two games over to Nightdive Studios.
Only Dead Island 2 has made much money. They bring out a lot of games, but they don't sell well.
Remnant 2 and Jagged Alliance 3 also sold well. About the rest we do not have official info.
Plus, it really wouldn't be Timesplitters without the sexy pinup style girls, right now the UK development culture is very NOT friendly to that sort of thing, so I'm sure there's been a lot of in fighting over which direction to take the game in.
It was a pretty blatant attempt to get a lot of random studios and IP's and then package them up to sell to the Saudis for a quick profit. Basically like house flipping for IP. The fact that even the Saudis took one look and were like "lol no" gives you an idea of what real value the stuff they bought up actually had. Even Tomb Raider has extremely little value in 2023.I don't think I've ever seen as much of a
move as with Embracer and the buying of IPs/Studios only to cancel/close them.
Like what the fuck were they even thinking?
For a GAF-Famous food analogy, it's the equivalent of me going to the grocery store, buying 20 gallons of milk then bringing it home and just letting it sit by the heater for 2 weeks before dumping it down the drain.
I hope you don't ever get made redundant from your job especially before Christmas. I'm sure you keep the same energy for yourself though, SMDH.
Honestly this is what I see embracer as. An IP gutting gig where they bought up as much as they can and now they're doing mass layoffs. They weren't interested in the workforce. Somebody is going to sweep in and "save" embracer after most of the cost cutting and people have gone. That has been my prediction about them ever since they initially went on a buying spree.
Oh fucking please, if the studio actually produced anything of value in the last 10 years they wouldnt be in that situation…Fuck me cry me a goddamn river, yes its tragic when people lose their jobs but they havent made a good game since Timesplitters 3, thats a long time to be on life support…SMDH
I guess serious interest was non existant, they probably have asked the big players and now it's firesale time and they hope some weirdo investor takes a big risk in pumping money into it while not paying Embracer almost or actually nothing.
