Will Private Division shutdown affect the game development?

[RIP George Wendt]

Just saw Take2 has gutted Private Division, is this game mostly developer funded or is this gonna negatively affect game development?

[potato]

private division isn't being shut down

[SecretPotato]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/take-two-reportedly-closing-private-division-studios-roll7-and-intercept-games/

[K. Hauzer]

PD are publishers not devs, Moon studios have plenty of resources from Ori games that was an XboX blast award winning games

[SecretPotato]

Originally posted by Hauzer:

PD are publishers not devs, Moon studios have plenty of resources from Ori games that was an XboX blast award winning games

Take-Two owns Private Division. And awards don't mean a damn thing.

[Murdy]

I don't know, but all this article says is "Two casualties of this restructuring are Roll7, the London-based developer behind OlliOlli and Rollerdrome, and Seattle-based Intercept Games, which developed Kerbal Space Program 2, according to documentation seen by Bloomberg."
So they are going to shut down 2 particular studios, not the whole Private Division as you stated imo :)

[SecretPotato]

Originally posted by Murdy:

I don't know, but all this article says is "Two casualties of this restructuring are Roll7, the London-based developer behind OlliOlli and Rollerdrome, and Seattle-based Intercept Games, which developed Kerbal Space Program 2, according to documentation seen by Bloomberg."
So they are going to shut down 2 particular studios, not the whole Private Division as you stated imo :)

aye I was just referring to OP. First I heard of this so started searching. I see different outlets saying different things some don't mention Private Division. Others do. So my end not sure what is going. Just another scummy tactic from Take Two is all I see.

[Murdy]

Originally posted by Koffee Guy:

aye I was just referring to OP. First I heard of this so started searching. I see different outlets saying different things some don't mention Private Division. Others do. So my end not sure what is going. Just another scummy tactic from Take Two is all I see.

Aye, we can never be sure what's behind these acts, especially when a big corporate such as Take Two is involved. Let's hope that Moon Studios will not take a part in cost-cutting in the future. I'm sure that in that case they will not have much problems to find another publisher, but it may make the development much more difficult :)

[AtlasRedux]

Originally posted by Murdy:

I don't know, but all this article says is "Two casualties of this restructuring are Roll7, the London-based developer behind OlliOlli and Rollerdrome, and Seattle-based Intercept Games, which developed Kerbal Space Program 2, according to documentation seen by Bloomberg."
So they are going to shut down 2 particular studios, not the whole Private Division as you stated imo :)

KSP2 is an absolute disaster. Also created on the terrible Unity engine, but even worse optimized. Which is unfathomable, because they never managed to get KSP 1 to work well on it, so what went through their tight stupid little skulls to go "what if we made KSP 1.... BUT BIGGER... ON THE SAME ENGINE WE ALREADY CAN'T GET IT TO WORK ON!???"
Good riddance.

[Megalithik]

I was just thinking after almost daily updates week 1, what happened this week been nothing. Then i read this about PD layoffs and closing a studio news??? Coincidence?

[AtlasRedux]

Originally posted by Megalithik:

I was just thinking after almost daily updates week 1, what happened this week been nothing. Then i read this about PD layoffs and closing a studio news??? Coincidence?

They CLEARLY SAID that they're not going to do daily hotfixes to avoid introducing more bugs and balance issues. Stop being paranoid and pay attention before you post.

[SecretPotato]

https://twitter.com/TheGennadiy/status/1786184008411295909

Patch May 3rd. Maybe??

[bruh]

based on the article, private division ain't shutting down. they simply shutting down some projects and studios, moon studios is unnaffected.

as for the update, the ceo already said that from now on updates will be bigger but slower.
apperently a update is coming tommorow.

source:
- twitter of ceo and director: https://twitter.com/thomasmahler/status/1785420588841918578
- twitter of co-founder and director:
https://twitter.com/TheGennadiy/status/1786184008411295909

they also did a post about private division that everything still seems ok.
https://twitter.com/thomasmahler/status/1785433995238674708

[königplatzen]

Originally posted by Koffee Guy:

Patch May 3rd. Maybe??

So either today or may the fourth (be with you) :)

[Gerald.]

Originally posted by Murdy:

Originally posted by Koffee Guy:

aye I was just referring to OP. First I heard of this so started searching. I see different outlets saying different things some don't mention Private Division. Others do. So my end not sure what is going. Just another scummy tactic from Take Two is all I see.

Aye, we can never be sure what's behind these acts, especially when a big corporate such as Take Two is involved. Let's hope that Moon Studios will not take a part in cost-cutting in the future. I'm sure that in that case they will not have much problems to find another publisher, but it may make the development much more difficult :)

The only issue would be if they tie up the ip in the publisher. It happens pretty often and if that's the case it's hell trying to get the game back. I have been thinking about picking this game up in the near future but I am going to hold off for just a bit longer and make sure things shake out positively first.