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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

How? I thought they were a success story.

Edit: Read the article:

While Don't Nod have managed to put out five games in the past three years alone, more recent releases like Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and Aphelion don't appear to have moved the needle quite enough.

[–] placebo@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage

What a waste of time it was. A game about nothing where nothing happens. How the mighty have fallen.

Vampyr and Banishers were interesting though. Rough, but interesting.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

I don’t even mind what happens in Bloom and Rage, both my partner and I were in psychic pain listening to the horrible, unnatural dialogue from all of the extremely unlikable characters the whole time.

Haven’t heard of Vampyr or Banishers—I’ll look into those!

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Uh oh. The big vultures are circling, salivating at the devs they're going to poach and the IPs they're going to gut - or, alternatively: shelf forever, much to the shegrin of the fans.

...

Wait a minute, a youngin' is whispering in my ear that's probably not going to happen anymore. Let me check the gaming industry market...

Overblown budgets, you say... unrealized gains, you say... faulty projections, enshitification, people prefer playing Chinese games nowadays? EA is struggling?!?!

...wtf happened?!

[–] TevTra@lemmy.tevtra.com 2 points 2 days ago

Sounds like usual things.. Unsustainable hiring practices, toxic positivity culture, hostile environments, etc etc

[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 2 points 3 days ago

My partner absolutely loved Lost Records. I thought it took way too long to get going, so I fell off pretty early on.