Star Wars: Zero Company studio reportedly furloughed staff before launch
Welp guess I’m not buying zero company after all :/ kotaku.com/studio-behin...
Dan Stefanidis3It's a bummer. TWIC has a better summary of the report, I think. Clarifying the suit is from 2024(still sounds bad) and the furlough dates. thisweekinvideogames.com/news/star-wa...
💀 Swerto 🎵 | Endless Hiatus Arc1Already bought and finished before seeing the article yesterday. Very annoyed with that. I was excited to hop in and support former Firaxis devs that worked on XCOM and Midnight Sons. This industry is rotten to the core.
lauren "aevisaris" sixregrets1some of the other reporting on it mentioned that the studio had essentially run out of money rather than it just being typical corporate bullshit but dunno
Christopher Hardage1This is a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation. Buying a good game is supposed to be the market signal that encourages the industry to create more good games. Not buying the game is the signal that bad corporate behavior yields lower sales. Sigh.
Most of the developers behind the critically acclaimed Star Wars Zero Company were furloughed weeks before the game's launch last week. https://bit.ly/4yjqMah
kjell19799No good deed goes unpunished.
ironicpirate.bsky.social7Anyway,join and be involved with a union. exploitationists will attempt to exploit at all turns, and it being the "job" they chose themselves have a full working day to consider how to exploit. Failing that make sure you can be positioned to leverage your owed pay in every contract you are party to
Ben Abrahamse7bunch of c suite assholes suing each other over who owns the studio when the people who actually bring it any value whatsoever are not getting paid
Adam. Pottery Beard.3Now find out where the money went.
preemchoom.bsky.social3That's a damn shame, the game is awesome, absolutely love it. I hope this ends well, wish them all the best.
Gabe140The game industry is so incredibly fucked up right now.
nico54ELI5: surely when a team makes a good, successful game, you'd want to keep them so they make another successful game and you make more money...? why do companies do this?
Eternal Skies TCG RPG26Oh hey we're firing people for making good games again. We went what, like a week without a major AAA game mass firing?
Gordon Little20Unions, folks, the only answer is Unions.
Pete Stewart 🏳️🌈14we will never make art, or be passionate, when making games ever again, if the end result is inevitably this.
Darren Weekes7Make an absolute banger and still get fucked.
James B. Jones5I am so sick of this industry.
Isaías "McAllus"5La industria de los videojuegos está completamente rota.
Radio4A estas alturas creo que las empresas de videojuegos te dan antes el finiquito que el contrato.
Wxdylan3Utterly wild that Nintendo is starting to look like the lone remaining "good" guy out in the gaming landscape when it comes to big AAA type corps and studios. Wild.
Star Wars Zero Company was spectacular. If you’ve never been able to get into the XCOM genre, this is the one! It is approachable and coherent with ALMOST none of the most nonsensical and frustrating elements that have held the genre back. I ❤️’d it and just want more. Great writing, characters ❤️❤️❤️
Alexander Sliwinski3And if you enjoyed Zero Company as your first XCOM-like, please, please check out Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Although it uses a card system, so many elements of Zero Company feel like the iteration on Midnight Suns we’ll never get. Epic treatment of game genre that now has clear success.
Thomas Jager1Damn I was thinking "somehow never got into modern XCOM so this isn't for me" Now it's on my wishlist 😩 (thanks!)
