http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/m...firm_whether_danger_close_is_still_open.html#
It wouldn't surprise me if they had closed. I don't think the Medal of Honour games were any where close to selling what they needed to.
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EA Won't Confirm if Danger Close Is Still Open
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http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/m...firm_whether_danger_close_is_still_open.html#
It wouldn't surprise me if they had closed. I don't think the Medal of Honour games were any where close to selling what they needed to.
To my knowledge they were dissolved a while back with the team being put on other EA LA projects where possible and the others being laid off.
Like I couldn't help but notice one of their producers now works on SimCity.
Someone who seems to know such things was implying this when I made a thread speculating if they were working on Bad Company as well.
Like I couldn't help but notice one of their producers now works on SimCity.
Someone who seems to know such things was implying this when I made a thread speculating if they were working on Bad Company as well.
ComputerMKII
Banned
I've never even heard of that studio.
Well you'll have played their games at somepoint. I think they were known as a different name before being re-branded as Danger Close. Danger Close though made the two Medal of Honour games, that's it.
Yeah. They were EA LA, I believe.
Extra Sauce
Member
In danger of being closed lololol amirite guys
Oh. This was done fifteen times already?
Oh. This was done fifteen times already?
EdwardTivrusky
Member
Bowling Pin
Member
They did The Neverhood back in the day as Dreamworks Interactive.
RIP for that alone, Danger Close.
RyanReedyMusic
Banned
Closed because of Danger. Closed because of Danger. \=/
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
Why are they restructuring prior to appointing a CEO? Surely these sorts of big decisions should be made by a new guy?
StalkerUKCG
Banned
The Medal of Honor games were poor. You ship 2 under performing titles and things start getting noticed. Sad that some people might have lost jobs from this.
Honestly it's very likely more down to having to create a modern military shooting in a sea of battlefield and call of duty. A return to WW2 era and the games could have sold well even if a little niche
Honestly it's very likely more down to having to create a modern military shooting in a sea of battlefield and call of duty. A return to WW2 era and the games could have sold well even if a little niche
Visualante2
Member
They are credited as doing work on Spielberg/Smith's LMNO game on Giant Bomb. But that could just be 'cause they're under the umbrella of EA Los Angeles.
Sad state of affairs, with all the VFX lay offs in California recently it's not going to be easy. Shouldn't be that hard to find out if they're closed you could just call reception and ask to be put through to someone at Danger Close...
Sad state of affairs, with all the VFX lay offs in California recently it's not going to be easy. Shouldn't be that hard to find out if they're closed you could just call reception and ask to be put through to someone at Danger Close...
EA's LA area stuff seems to have been some of the worst managed studios this gen. Countless cancelled projects, often after years of pricey development. There's stuff like Tiberium, which got this epic reveal, then was dead less than a month later. Constant issues with C&C games, and all these constant labels. Victory, BioWare etc.
They deserve to be shut down.
I dislike as much as the next when people lose their jobs, but people who are not competent at doing their jobs do not deserve to have them. There may be plenty of individual talent at the studio, but they have more than proved they are incapable of making a respectable product as a team.
I dislike as much as the next when people lose their jobs, but people who are not competent at doing their jobs do not deserve to have them. There may be plenty of individual talent at the studio, but they have more than proved they are incapable of making a respectable product as a team.
antitrop
does not much care for
MOH: Warfighter
(Today, 11:48 AM)
We know your bias, but come on.
Y2Kev seemed to enjoy the first Medal of Honor reboots outing. I dunno about the second since DICE phoned in the multiplayer of the first to where I didn't bother with the first OR second (since DICE wasn't involved the second outing) was the campaign that bad?
Considerably worse than the abominations that are Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3, but those games have other saving graces.
It could be EA pulling the strings telling them to make a certain type of game.
Danger Close might have even wanted to design a modern military open world shooter with significant RPG elements.
They look at Call of Duty and think that this is what consumers want. They even want blame consumers when Medal of Honor doesn't meet expectations.
I personally think this is a horrible businesses model. The Call of Duty audience has proven time and again that they don't buy into other games. Probably for the same reason they chose CoD in the first place, because its easy. CoD is designed with various crutches in order to significantly lower the skill cap.
Its difficult to choose a new game, and even more difficult to learn the mechanics. This audience will not move onto other games.
The quality of the product. Warfighter wasn't the worst game released last year, but it was in the bottom 3. It single handedly ended one of the most notable franchises of gaming, at least for the foreseeable future. EA is 100% laser focused on Battlefield as their military franchise now.
djplaeskool
Member
Needed more Linkin Park.
The bottom 3? Based only on quality? I think you may be exagerating a little bit.
I don't buy that. Plenty of developers are forced to work within the constraints of their publisher's guidelines, maybe EA might be a bit more forceful than others, but I don't know what went on in the internal dealings of the publisher/developer relationship in this instance.
All I know is that Danger Close's situation is not unique, but the lacking quality of their final product is. I light no candles for them.
Hardly, I saw Warfighter top "Worst of 2012" lists several months back. I don't even think it's that bad. I mean, The War Z came out last year. It's just that Warfighter is so high profile. The budget it was given alone should have at least assured some level of quality that it even failed to meet.
Cave Johnson
Member
But this doesn't make any sense, MOH is EXACTLY what EA wanted to believe the masses will buy. Generic military shooter/multi-player/linear triple threat guarantee - and yet, it doesn't but they will force Dead Space to go that particular route when a DESIGNED game from the GROUND UP failed to?
DerZuhälter
Member
But what about EA wanting to annualize Battlefield?
Wasn't the first MoH done by Dreamworks Interactive and Speilberg had some fingers in that pie?
According to a friend of mine they all got moved to Command and Conquer, Battlefield 4, or just laid off. Danger Close is basically gone.
grosvenor_92
Member
I wouldn't be surprised since warfighter didn't meet expectations. Although I thought the buddy system and the ability to play as different special forces around the world seemed interesting.
Yep. Unfortunately the first Medal of Honor anyone remembers was made by Infinity Ward.
I really liked the first MoH 'reimagining' It had some great setpieces and I loved it's down to earth vibe. Warfighter was a game that felt compromised badly by EA, it just seemed to go against what the devs wanted. It was like an EA executive saw the first level and went 'ok now this ship container in the first level needs to EXPLODE and you need to be running from it!!!!' No stealth or anything, fuck that, the kids will love it!!' After the shitfest that is Dead Space 3 I could bloody well believe it too and see it as quite likely.
They were also involved with Army Of Two The Devils Cartel and it doesn't surprise me. The guns/gunplay felt really good in that. Always enjoyed the combat in the MoH games even if a lot of the other parts were flawed (deeply flawed in the case of Warfighter)
They were also involved with Army Of Two The Devils Cartel and it doesn't surprise me. The guns/gunplay felt really good in that. Always enjoyed the combat in the MoH games even if a lot of the other parts were flawed (deeply flawed in the case of Warfighter)
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Buy new ones.
shinobi602
Member
I only played the single player of MOH: Warfighter, but goddamn was it a true piece of shit.
SniperHunter
Banned
The first game had too much American propaganda, it just turned me off completely.