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Telltale Games shutting down after Minecraft Story Mode [Update: TWD S4, ST, TWAU 2 cancelled]
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Yeah very curious how and why this came to be if true. Hope they're able to finish the Final Season of TWD at least with this potentially happening.
Edit: Wow looking to be true. That's a HUGE amount of people. Yeah looking like they're going to close after TWD is done. Curious if this is going to change the release schedule in anyway.
This is definitely going to be an interesting story as to how things went wrong with what seemed to have been a successful company.
Edit: Wow looking to be true. That's a HUGE amount of people. Yeah looking like they're going to close after TWD is done. Curious if this is going to change the release schedule in anyway.
This is definitely going to be an interesting story as to how things went wrong with what seemed to have been a successful company.
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I'm really enjoying TWAU Season 1 so far. That's too bad.
Crazy shit. I'm not surprised though, the company grew too fast.
I hope the people who lost their jobs finds something new fast.
I hope the people who lost their jobs finds something new fast.
More like 25 people to finish TWD season 4 and than bye bye Telltale. Sad news.
That sounds like "keep the residual checks and storefronts running" level of staff to me.
Quite a lot of studios pretty much dissolving recently. Hope those people manage to find a new job quickly. This industry is crazy.
That's crazy!
I feel bad for the people laid off and hope they get hired quickly or even form new studios.
Also, if they're not truly dead for now, I hope they decide to go for a quality over quantity mindset. Maybe even make a few "fully featured" games as well instead of just episodic content.
I feel bad for the people laid off and hope they get hired quickly or even form new studios.
Also, if they're not truly dead for now, I hope they decide to go for a quality over quantity mindset. Maybe even make a few "fully featured" games as well instead of just episodic content.
I assumed they were doing pretty well financially, this is crazy.
I really enjoy TT stuff even when it's bad, i've played damn near every game they've put out since The Walking Dead and it looked like they were finally evolving with season 4. This is a bummer.
Hopefully everyone who lost their job lands on their feet.
I really enjoy TT stuff even when it's bad, i've played damn near every game they've put out since The Walking Dead and it looked like they were finally evolving with season 4. This is a bummer.
Hopefully everyone who lost their job lands on their feet.
It is super possible they're just closing down after Season 4 finishes, yeah.
Can 25 people be enough to actually release a game of theirs? Like maybe 1 episode at year or something like that.
Those are massive layoffs, sorry to all involved and I hope they find their next step. I can only guess that it must have been a huge amount on licensing fees that they couldn't recoup through sales. They did so well with Walking Dead and Wolf Among Us at the beginning and then they spread themselves thin with way too many titles from other franchises.
The question is less how much did they sell and more when did they sell. I think their early huge delays between episodes followed by big discounts before the season was finished trained people to only buy these games at firesale prices. The comic adaptations didn't really have that much buzz either. I wouldn't be surprised if Minecraft is their only big success in a few years.
Oh jeez what the heck, that's out of nowhere :-(
What could a team of 25 even accomplish? Finishing old projects?
What could a team of 25 even accomplish? Finishing old projects?
Their engine needed a complete overhaul desperately for ages, the GOT games looked so bad that I was convinced something was wrong on my desktop the first time I fired it up
Just enough people to get the final TWD Season finished I guess? Didn't expect to hear this kind of news today.
We need to know the reason so someone can make a joke about facing the consequences of your choices.
With the amount of people left, it seems like either wind-down mode or completely start-over mode. Is season 4 of TWD completely released yet?
Sucks to see that many people lose their jobs, but my lone experience with Telltale remains getting Season 1 of The Walking Dead on PC and the game repeatedly crashing and never carrying over my choices to the next chapter no matter what I did. Not sure if they ever fixed it but if they did, I didn't care anymore by the time they did.
I have to imagine those 25 are just there to finish the current season of TWD and then the studio will shutdown.
Best of luck to everyone impacted by this. What a bummer to see.
Yeah, I haven't been current with their games for a while now but whenever I caught up I was usually quite happy with the final result.
Yeah, I haven't been current with their games for a while now but whenever I caught up I was usually quite happy with the final result.
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250 to 25?! Well looks like they may finish TWD then close the doors I'm betting. Fuck I really wanted TWAU 2 :(
Wow, only 25 out of 250 people left? That's insane. Best of luck to those who lost their jobs today. I'm guessing Wolf Among Us S2 and the Stranger Things project will never see the light of day. :(
I'll be honest, I'm actually surprised that so many people seem to be shocked by this.
Didn't it feel as if Telltale bit off more than they could chew? I always thought there could be issues with the number of licenses they were picking up.
That being said, the number is pretty surprising so I guess the shock might come from that. I mean, if it's really 250 down to 25, that is basically killing the studio.
Didn't it feel as if Telltale bit off more than they could chew? I always thought there could be issues with the number of licenses they were picking up.
That being said, the number is pretty surprising so I guess the shock might come from that. I mean, if it's really 250 down to 25, that is basically killing the studio.
Yeah, 25 people to oversee the release of TWD, and then closing doors it seems.
