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RIP
Sleeping Dogs is so good. This sucks, really hoped SD2 would get made one day.
Sleeping Dogs is so good. This sucks, really hoped SD2 would get made one day.
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RIP United Front Games
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Vital Tundra
Member
Disappointing. Hope they come out okay.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
I loved sleeping dogs. Wish they could stay together
Rei no Otaku
Member
Serious question. Are publishers stupid? Anyone could look at Triad Wars and see it was not what anyone wanted. Why wouldn't you just greenlight Sleeping Dogs 2?
I'll be eating a pork bun in their honor.
I'll be eating a pork bun in their honor.
Stone Ocean
Member
What the fuck, hasn't Smash and Grab been out for like two weeks?
Jawbreaker
Member
Shit. Best of luck to all those affected. The industry is very volatile.
Doug Heffernan
Member
Everything went downhill when they announced that dumb Triad War game... what a shame.
An incredibly talented team, with horrible upper management.
- they first had True Crime HK get cancelled and unfinished
- they invested serious time and money into Triad Wars
- they go and make the same mistake with Smash and Grab
It's not that Triad Wars and Smash and Grab are bad games, but the huge 'single player open world' audience just wanted SD 2. Heck a SD expansion could have brought in more dollars without overhauling the entire game.
- they first had True Crime HK get cancelled and unfinished
- they invested serious time and money into Triad Wars
- they go and make the same mistake with Smash and Grab
It's not that Triad Wars and Smash and Grab are bad games, but the huge 'single player open world' audience just wanted SD 2. Heck a SD expansion could have brought in more dollars without overhauling the entire game.
Meatyhooks
Neo Member
Extremely disappointed to read this. Could almost taste sleep dogs 2.
Still works for me.
ultracal31
You don't get to bring friends.
That's a shame to hear, friend works there and it's on his feed as well :/
It's the perfect time to let people go after a project.
They probably reviewed first week sales and then decided what would happen from there.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Glad we got Sleeping Dogs on both Plus and Gold. It's a legitimately underrated game. Probably the tightest gameplay in an open world game.
Yeah I was gonna say, that just came out...
RIP, hope the employees find jobs soon.
Sleeping Dogs was SO DAMN GOOD.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
That sucks, Modnation Racers and Sleeping Dogs were both damn good games, especially Sleeping Dogs.
Jawmuncher
Member
Square burned them making them waste all that time on the Sleeping Dogs Online
PowderedToast
Junior Member
damn. so sorry to everyone who lost their jobs.
GrantDaNasty
Member
That team seemed to have tough times through most of their life.
Modnation Racers didn't catch on, Neither did LBP Karting. They were relegated to porting duties (TR: DE X1 and did some work on Halo: MCC apparently) and did some work on Disney Infinity (again, they seemed to be cursed with clunkers).
I'll be honest, I wasn't excited at the prospect of what Triad Wars would've been, because I just don't find all that much enjoyment for multiplayer experiences like that, but then again, Sleeping Dogs is a game that should've been completely mediocre after several different redesigns and changing hands from Vivendi(Activision) to Square-Enix.
People keep saying "Why didn't they just make Sleeping Dogs 2?" Because SE probably didn't see much of a point in it, they instead greenlit an MMO-version of it which was cancelled after enough time and resources were shoveled into it.
It's a shame for any studio to close down (even the bad ones), UFG definitely should've been given more of a chance to prove themselves.
Modnation Racers didn't catch on, Neither did LBP Karting. They were relegated to porting duties (TR: DE X1 and did some work on Halo: MCC apparently) and did some work on Disney Infinity (again, they seemed to be cursed with clunkers).
I'll be honest, I wasn't excited at the prospect of what Triad Wars would've been, because I just don't find all that much enjoyment for multiplayer experiences like that, but then again, Sleeping Dogs is a game that should've been completely mediocre after several different redesigns and changing hands from Vivendi(Activision) to Square-Enix.
People keep saying "Why didn't they just make Sleeping Dogs 2?" Because SE probably didn't see much of a point in it, they instead greenlit an MMO-version of it which was cancelled after enough time and resources were shoveled into it.
It's a shame for any studio to close down (even the bad ones), UFG definitely should've been given more of a chance to prove themselves.
Hot Coldman
Banned
They made up some bullshit sales targets which led to them publicly devaluing some of their biggest games (Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution being the others). It was an utter farce then and the results today have only solidified its farcical nature. It's amounted to Tomb Raider 2 being made anyway and having a super awkward exclusivity period, the next Hitman getting made anyway and being rather successful in spite of it all, and now this utter bollocks with UF going under because no Sleeping Dogs 2,
Sycoraxic98
Neo Member
Might also be somewhat related to the closure of Disney Infinity - they had just shipped Marvel Battlegrounds, and I assume they were banking on a contract for the next playset...plus Triad Wars...plus just everything else...
Such a talented team.
Such a talented team.
*laughs and cries at the same time*
Infinite Justice
Member
Wait seriously? 
RIP Sleeping dogs and good luck to those affected.
RIP Sleeping dogs and good luck to those affected.
funkystudent
Member
Mod nation and sleeping dogs where great.
A damn shame. They are a casualty of how scared publishers where entering this gen.
A damn shame. They are a casualty of how scared publishers where entering this gen.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
;( good luck to everyone
GrantDaNasty
Member
Also, didn't SE have ridiculous sales quotas for several of their games around this period due to trying to remain in the black as a result of FF XIV being a complete shitshow in the beginning and the money they were spending on Luminous Engine and the 8 billion incarnations of FF XV?
Dio Brando
Banned
FUCK. Sleeping Dogs is probably my favorite open world game. RIP united front. hope the devs can find other jobs.
User 479360
Banned
This is awful news. Sleeping Dogs was fantastic.
They shouldn't have deviated and made crap-looking games afterwards, and just made Sleeping Dogs 2.
They shouldn't have deviated and made crap-looking games afterwards, and just made Sleeping Dogs 2.