Topic: EA closes Visceral Games

[MysterD]

Kotaku - EA closes Visceral Games (makers of Dead Space series & Battlefield: Hardline).
YongYea on Youtube - His thoughts on the closure of Visceral.

[Cobra951]

Damn.  How sad is that?  I wish only EA was raping and pillaging the gaming scene, but other big publishers are also engaged in the destruction.  Microsoft is poised to turn their console space into such a wasteland.  Forza 7 I guess leads the charge.  I've pretty much resolved never to buy another game with pay-to-win or pay-to-earn mechanics.  Loot boxes in particular will disqualify any title.

[MysterD]

GameSpot - Former Visceral developer Zach Wilson says Dead Space 2 costs $60M to make, only sold 4M units; that all wasn't enough b/c you have to spend $60M to market it; and retailers & Microsoft take a big cut.

[Quemaqua]

Bummer, but not unexpected. Frankly I'm surprised it took this long. RIP, Dead Space franchise. I enjoyed you.

[MysterD]

Kotaku - Article on the troubled development of Visceral's Star Wars code-named project "Ragtag."

It's about issues w/ EA, Visceral, Amy Hennig, and more.

Hell of a read, to say the least.

[gpw11]

This is dumb but I kind of hope Amy Henning ends up with whoever owns the Legacy of Kain rights these days.