Purchase by Atari will end Night Dive

[pmar.prj]

Knowing Atari's track record over all of its iterations, Night Dive Studios will be completely screwed over financially and and told to sit on their thumbs, eventually getting shut down while Atari will continue making stupid decisions that will lead to another bankruptcy.
This will be one of Night Dive's last games.

[Elitepatriot]

I am over here thinking, "Atari is still a thing?"

[Flan]

Originally posted by Elitepatriot:

I am over here thinking, "Atari is still a thing?"

Yeah but it's not really atari it's just part of another company owned by another company using the brand. Infrogames I think.

[Deltafox]

Here's hoping for heads to roll in the management team. How you guys are still employed is a mystery to me when you are so incompetent you can't even meet a self-imposed deadline for a Kickstarter update post....

Its hard to imagine how things could possibly be worse under new management but these are the clowns behind the vcs...

[MrBananaGrabber]

I hope it doesn't lead to them being unable to complete even a basic project in under 7 years, or releasing a remaster of an existing game that is even worse than the original (Blade Runner), or wasting a million dollars and having absolutely nothing to show for it.

Ooh, right.

[Deltafox]

I for one am looking forward to grinding atari token while playing remasters of classic games. It's duh future!

[MrBananaGrabber]

Originally posted by Jamie Thompson:

I for one am looking forward to grinding atari token while playing registers of classic games. It's duh future!

Atari were a big powerful company in Blade Runner 2049, and that was set 23 years before the release of System Shock.

[rane]

Originally posted by MrBananaGrabber:

Originally posted by Jamie Thompson:

I for one am looking forward to grinding atari token while playing registers of classic games. It's duh future!

Atari were a big powerful company in Blade Runner 2049, and that was set 23 years before the release of System Shock.

Well Atari were a big powerful company in real life and that too was 23 years before the release of System Shock 1

(well ok it was more 22-20 years)

it's like pottery, it rhymes

[The Toblin]

Came here to post the same thing. RIP Night Dive. It was good while it lasted. The likelyhood of SSR getting released just went from "within 2 months" to "not likely to ever happen".

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Advocated Edict]

Atari can't even afford to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PAY the $10 Million

https://twitter.com/suhcmeknuhts/status/1638762158057046017

>US$10 Million payable half in cash and half in Atari shares

I'm ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dying inside.

Literally two days after I finally decide to try the demo and decide it's good enough to consider purchasing, this happens.

Also, for those curious, no, this isn't the same Atari that you grew up with. French game publisher Infogrames purchased the rights to use the name when the real Atari went bankrupt, and they're wearing them like you'd skin a corpse to use it's skin as a disguise.

[The Toblin]

Originally posted by Advocated Edict:

Atari can't even afford to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PAY the $10 Million

https://twitter.com/suhcmeknuhts/status/1638762158057046017

>US$10 Million payable half in cash and half in Atari shares

I'm ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dying inside.

Literally two days after I finally decide to try the demo and decide it's good enough to consider purchasing, this happens.

You can always refund. If you kickstarted, your luck isn't with you, but if you just preordered (why would you? Stop preordering things!) you can refund your purchase.

I wish I could refund my Kickstarter now. The chances of me seeing the game (and the accompanying physical goods) are disappearing as we speak.

I know Kickstarters are a gamble. Consider the money you spent gone and be *happy* if you get something. Doesn't make it sting less though.

[Mr. Sophistication]

[KrZ]

By losing their independent status, I guess this means no more freedom to work on anything but remasters of Atari games moving forward?

[Retcon Rob]

$10million is peanuts, what is going on here.

[Singletree]

It's been obvious for several years now that the 2016 System Shock Kickstarter campaign and preorder sales have mostly been used to keep the company afloat until they could sell it. Now Atari puts $10000000 in their pocket while a full System Shock release is still vaporware. So unethical and shameful. I have zero desire to play this game anymore but funding it was a good lesson in life. They fooled me.

[Azex]

2 weeks ago i refunded my preorder after the march to may delay. now i see this atari news and feel justified and vindicated. Atari is a cancer. its not even atari anymore, hasnt been for eons. its an entity that eats and destroys companys and studios now.