Just don't overextend, Remedy. Stay in your niche you dumbasses. Stay unique. No one cares about Firebreak exactly because it is just some lame copycat bullshit.
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I didn't know Firebreak existed (or forgot it). Doesn't look like anything that makes me want to buy and play. I am not against the idea of the game, its just not exiting (unless you have friends or family who are exited for this). Looks like a forced multiplayer live service game on a developer who are known for interesting single player games... where did we saw that before? (Anthem, Suicide Squad, Marvel's Avengers, Fallout 76)
'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value'
Checks corpo-speak to English dictionary:
Lasting value is cash: Scale plan: First down, drastically, then bisect as many times as possible, then sell off the chunks to the highest bidders.
This is the TRUE American Nightmare. Rest in peace, Mr. Wake.
Smells cooked to me.
RIP, thanks for the fun.
I never understood why Remedy got publicly traded.
Remedy is cooked.
Well hopefully at least we’ll get one more good game out of them with Control 2. Maybe also the Max Payne remake. Hopefully they’re too far along for Mr. Shareholder Speak to fuck it up. But I guess we’ll see.
Remedy already has lasting value in our hearts you out of touch dork!
same could have been said about Blizzard
All my dreams for Control 2 just went up in smoke
Control 2 should hopefully be fine as the CEO is new and it is scheduled for the first half of the year (They told investors 2026H1 and no one would lie to investors /s). Not so sure about anything else.
Control 2026. Control 2027. Control 2028
i hate capitalism. so very, very much.
Into the ground, you say?
With AI and microtransactions you say!
Microtransactions are for pussies, macrotransactions are where it's at
Remember when Konami was charging money for save slots? 😂 I can't with this industry…
What the fuck, when was that?
Omg wtf, Konami used to be great back in the day. What a way to burn up all good will with your fans. I refuse to buy any of their new games after they burned the bridges back when they claimed to be getting out of gaming for good.
You can thank Hideki Hayakawa, who turned thier Digital Entertainment (home videogames) division into more casino type things, completed around when Hideo left:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL-BmDNuS7w
And now thier "Digital Entertainment" division is way more profitable: https://www.pcgamer.com/konami-just-had-its-best-ever-year-thanks-to-games-youve-never-heard-of/
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"build lasting value".
Oh no, he's already using shareholder lingo
RIP Remedy 😭
Nnooooo
They were already building lasting value.
By just making good artistically meaningful games.
"Art is something that we think is a little outdated in the modern business landscape" - this guy probably.
"Art isn't about artistic expression. Billions of people make paintings and most of them go unseen. Museums, on the other hand... They don't make paintings, they make experiences. For a nominal entry fee, consumers have access to an evolving and ever-changing catalog of content.
This is the future we envision here at Remedy. High quality games that build upon themselves, creating an experience that grows with the player. For that reason, we're announcing that the Alan Wake series will no longer be individual games, but instead a live-service experience with episodic content."
- also that guy probably
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And another studio dead and gone.
Welp any hopes I had for more of the control universe after resonant just got trashed
If you hold Control that high, then no worries: everything will be under Control.
😎👉👉
You’ll get control legends with loot boxes and micro transactions.
Every artifact is a lootbox instead
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RIP Remedy.
Remedy is fucked. Not that I mind, I never liked their newer games. The only game I ever liked from Remedy is Max Payne.
CORRECTION: I kind of did like Control.
TBF Control was pretty awesome. Couldn't care less about Firebreak, which is sad because I expected it to be a much better game...
Well shit. I hope the supposedly in development Control 2 manages to come out somewhat unscathed before things go fully downhill.
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Well they're done.
Poor Sam Lake.
"We are absolutely cooked, chat." - Alan Wake (writer)
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