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Embracer is shutting down Volition (Saints Row). Company issues official statement.

I hate woke but I don't subscribe to that "go woke, go broke" ideal. Plenty of woke companies and products are doing extremely well.

Anyways, enough of that. I guess that means we're not getting another Red Faction game either?
 
Spoilers, Saints Row was never a good game. It was bad before and after it went woke. Game was always a poor gta clone. Still feel bad people will lose their jobs tho.
 
This shill has no self-awareness

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Fans were telling them after the first reveal that they didn't want this game, they could have u-turned, they could have tweaked the characters a bit and dropped the social justice crew vibe; but nope, they doubled down. Makes you wonder who these companies think they are making these games for, it's clear after all these commercial failures that there isn't some unvocal majority who love this shit.

Creative Assembly please take note.
 
SidViscous said:
Fans were telling them after the first reveal that they didn't want this game, they could have u-turned, they could have tweaked the characters a bit and dropped the social justice crew vibe; but nope, they doubled down. Makes you wonder who these companies think they are making these games for, it's clear after all these commercial failures that there isn't some unvocal majority who love this shit.

Creative Assembly please take note.
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It's what happens when you listen to the very vocal extreme minority. You lose your way and end up making a game not for your audience, but rather for the people who actually hated your game or product. Several brands have now figured that out. Don't give into hatred, violence or threats from these vocal people. That doesn't mean be evil and bigots or racist either mind you, it just means remember who your audience is and making things for them, not the people who hate them/you.
 
proandrad said:
Spoilers, Saints Row was never a good game. It was bad before and after it went woke. Game was always a poor gta clone. Still feel bad people will lose their jobs tho.
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SR 2 and SR 3 were it's best entries. SR 4 was fun but too easy.

It's sad that GTA fans constantly want to shit on it because it's not as 'good' at being a GTA game, when it stopped trying to be a 1:1 GTA since SR 2.
 
Sad but understandable:

Gat out of hell - failure
Agents of Mayhem - failure
Saints Row - failure

They were given huge budget (around 100 milion USD afaik) and plenty of time incl. delays. They still produced complete unabashed failure. Of course Lars Wingefors does not want to throw more good money after bad.

I wonder if Embracer tried to sell Volition, but nobody bit. I would almost bet they did.
 
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I'm gonna miss SR games, only played 3,4, GooH, and a tiny bit of AoM but just the sheer craziness and insane stuff in 3 and 4 were always a great way to kind of disconnect from the barrage of same old same old trend chasing we go through with larger games.
 
Can't say I'm surprised. They tried catering to a different audience that didn't know they existed instead of building off of everything you built with your previous fans.

Grass want greener on that side was it fuckers

I do hope all the employees that land on their feet. But some need to land in another field after saints row remake or whatever the fuck it is
 
I wished they had continued on as an RPG developer. The Summoner games were not perfect but quite good in my opinion. The jump to GTA style games is kind of baffling, but I guess it worked for them for a while.
 
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Holy shit! Pour one out!

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Loved Red Faction back in the day. Guerilla had some great (even unsurpassed in some ways) physics tech.

Best of luck to all the people over there looking for a new home.
 
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The real Volition that created the games everyone loved went away over a decade ago.

This dude was part of the "Volition" that released crap.

I don't want to see anyone out of work, so I do hope he finds work making mobile games.
 
Everything woke turns to shit.

I wish everyone on the dev team who had no say in the direction of their latest game the best. To the purple-haired morons who literally told fans who were upset with the direction of the latest game to fuck off: I hope you'll never get a job in videogames again.

Stupid fucks.
 
SmokedMeat said:
The real Volition that created the games everyone loved went away over a decade ago.

This dude was part of the "Volition" that released crap.

I don't want to see anyone out of work, so I do hope he finds work making mobile games.
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You know what, thats a good realm for ALL these devs that push agendas and bs. Go to mobile gaming, make ALL the stupid games you like there.
 
Fuck.... as much as i hate the new Saints Row and how they shat on it, i definitely dont want them to shut down 😥😥😭😭😭
 
Looks like their pilots forgot to dive and hit the burner.



Let's be sincere here.
SR was "good" (it's not my kind of game) but their only masterpiece was Freespace 2 and that game is over 20 years old.
 
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I wonder how many of their ex staff will end up abandoning their lunches.. 🤔
 
Valt7786 said:
Always a shame to see people lose their jobs, will never celebrate that.
But on the other hand, should have listened to the fans when they rightly told you that your new idea for Saints Row was garbage, instead of burying your heads in the sand and telling us we were wrong.
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Can't say it better.
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