RIP Arkane

[Cr4ckHorse]

I have so many fond memories of Dishonored, it was the only game to scratch the Mirror's Edge 08 itch. And Prey was really really cool. It's a shame to see them go, ♥♥♥♥ MS.

[Alexandra#!/bin/sh]

To be fair, it's just Arkane Austin who've gone under. Lyons is still very much alive.

It still sucks, but they lost most of their core talent during the development of Redfall as developers got fed up and left.

[Lar Dass]

Who's to say arkane lyon isnt next?

[Artie]

Very sad, indeed. MS sucks :(

[grabelli]

Originally posted by Artie:

Very sad, indeed. MS sucks :(

Bethesda sucked much more with their absence of any advertising and PR for Prey and all other Arkane games.

[SanekiBeko]

Originally posted by Lar Dass:

Who's to say arkane lyon isnt next?

If Blade doesn't meet sales expectations I feel the worse.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by Cr4ckHorse:

I have so many fond memories of Dishonored, it was the only game to scratch the Mirror's Edge 08 itch. And Prey was really really cool. It's a shame to see them go, ♥♥♥♥ MS.

Wow, an actually decent imm sim in the Mirror's Edge world would have done wonders to flesh out that often superficial and baffling nonsense. Memba when you got to the helicopter at the end of the first game and all the soldiers despawned instantly? That was close.

[Lar Dass]

Originally posted by SanekiBeko:

Originally posted by Lar Dass:

Who's to say arkane lyon isnt next?

If Blade doesn't meet sales expectations I feel the worse.

we will see if bethesda forces them to rush it

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by Lar Dass:

Originally posted by SanekiBeko:

If Blade doesn't meet sales expectations I feel the worse.

we will see if bethesda forces them to rush it

Wouldn't be MS at this point not sure how the hierarchy works anymore.

[SanekiBeko]

There's a new article stating that Austin was trying to pitch another immersive sim.

"Before its closure, Arkane had been looking to return to its roots by pitching a new single-player “immersive sim” game, such as a new entry in the Dishonored series, according to the people familiar."

Also, Tango was in the works of pitching a sequel to Hi-Fi Rush.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-08/xbox-studio-closures-microsoft-plans-more-cost-cutting-measures-after-layoffs?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNTE5ODUzNywiZXhwIjoxNzE1ODAzMzM3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTRDZOSzZEV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.Ae8Wc_YmUJla6VHol8aa5AIVOUAmdYTiRnQ2nKph6NY

[Cr4ckHorse]

Originally posted by SanekiBeko:

There's a new article stating that Austin was trying to pitch another immersive sim.

"Before its closure, Arkane had been looking to return to its roots by pitching a new single-player “immersive sim” game, such as a new entry in the Dishonored series, according to the people familiar."

Also, Tango was in the works of pitching a sequel to Hi-Fi Rush.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-08/xbox-studio-closures-microsoft-plans-more-cost-cutting-measures-after-layoffs?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNTE5ODUzNywiZXhwIjoxNzE1ODAzMzM3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTRDZOSzZEV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.Ae8Wc_YmUJla6VHol8aa5AIVOUAmdYTiRnQ2nKph6NY

that hurts a lot to read
It makes no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sense, the studios they closed were super successful

[Bankai9212]

That's debatable while me and others liked the games prey and games like it suffer from the im sim curse. Would be cool to see hi fi rush but the failures of EW2 and ghost wire clearly took a toll that HI FI couldn't pull them from.

[Cr4ckHorse]

Originally posted by Bankai9212:

That's debatable while me and others liked the games prey and games like it suffer from the im sim curse. Would be cool to see hi fi rush but the failures of EW2 and ghost wire clearly took a toll that HI FI couldn't pull them from.

Are you certain? As far as I can see Ghostwire and Evil Within 2 were successes and well received.

[Holografix]

Dishonored 2 did not sell. Prey did not sell. HENCE, closure.

Gamers are their own worst enemy. They buy millions of CODs or FIFA, but then go to online forum boards and call games like Prey or Dishonored 2 'woke' or 'feminist,' etc.. and all those other supposedly hateful epitaphs.

I love Prey, Dishonored, but if you go to those forums it's all hatemongering and 'anti-woke' bs.

It's called reaping what you sow. Stop going online and pushing the 'anti-woke' agenda. And stop blaming Microsoft because they just do what makes them money.

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by Cr4ckHorse:

Originally posted by Bankai9212:

That's debatable while me and others liked the games prey and games like it suffer from the im sim curse. Would be cool to see hi fi rush but the failures of EW2 and ghost wire clearly took a toll that HI FI couldn't pull them from.

Are you certain? As far as I can see Ghostwire and Evil Within 2 were successes and well received.

Evil within sold half of the total units of the first without hard numbers it safe to assume with a bigger budget it didn't sell that well. Ghost wire just came out and no one really said anything about it yeah 6 million players played it due to game pass and that's about it.

critically they were both seen a mix overall. But opinion matters little for overall sales.

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by Holografix:

Dishonored 2 did not sell. Prey did not sell. HENCE, closure.

Gamers are their own worst enemy. They buy millions of CODs or FIFA, but then go to online forum boards and call games like Prey or Dishonored 2 'woke' or 'feminist,' etc.. and all those other supposedly hateful epitaphs.

I love Prey, Dishonored, but if you go to those forums it's all hatemongering and 'anti-woke' bs.

It's called reaping what you sow. Stop going online and pushing the 'anti-woke' agenda. And stop blaming Microsoft because they just do what makes them money.

None of the forums are remotely like that not like you'll respond, get lost politics aren't welcome in the thread topic.