Saints Row developer Volition shuts down after 30 years
(nichegamer.com)
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After that last saints row good fuck em.
They shit talked and name called the fans of the saints row series. Told people to fuck off if they didnt like the changes. They did what bud light did lol. Berate their loyal fanbase for being non woke.
It's not just one. Agents of Mayhem was also a big flop.
you know what could have prevented them from needing to beg for money from a country where being gay is illegal?
they could have made good games that sold.
The days of companies reinvesting profits is long over.
Nowadays, it's all about credit lines and investments.
Then maybe companies deserve to close their doors. Seems like an extremely poor strategy.
It is one of the things that a channel I watch called Valliant Renegade gets a bug up his ass about all the time. His day job is doing financial work, and one of this biggest pet peeves is the push in the last decade or two that all companies should be focused on growth rather than profit. It is why you have this push for constant investment and credit even though companies are losing money hand over fist.
Meanwhile, many of those investors will turn up their nose at a company that had limited growth but made solid profit.
He sees it as the number one reason that so many of the streaming services have failed to make any profit because they must get that growth, which then also causes the drop in quality (that is further made worse by the beliefs of the Hollywood types).
I've never understood people's willingness to put their healthcare into the hands of their employers. I may pay a hefty chunk out of pocket, but it gives me the freedom to know that I'll never be without medical coverage so long as my bank account isn't empty. Makes it real easy to weather something like a contract getting canceled or an employer being otherwise retarded.
This is why. Its not a lazy choice. Its a "its the only affordable option" choice. Most people wouldn't have any insurance if not for the "give us 7$ per check and your family is covered" monthly options employers offer, compared to the average of 560$ a month for private.
Lefties may be retards with bad solutions, but they aren't wrong that healthcare in America is absurdly expensive and well beyond the ability of most families to pay without employer coverage at 99% cheaper than personal coverage.
Saudi group?? All they had to do was put in a buncha white blondes in bikinis and the saudis would go balls deep in support lol. The saudis after all bought SnK.. probably for mai shiranui or female terry lol.
So much like one prince buying 100k battle pass levels in Dota 2, based saudis supporting good games with their royal wallets?
You're coming at this from a rational perspective that considers the impact on the industry at large, and I agree with you in spirit.
But if that 1 game is squarely aimed at subverting an existing series and giving a middle finger to its fans, I absolutely think a studio should be shitcanned for it.
Was it really Volition that was shut down, or did they shut down way earlier and what is gone now is the corpse being worn as a skinsuit by leftist hacks.
I really doubt a lot of the studios that exist currently are the same as even 5 years ago and many are just skinsuits.
Pretty sure the studio more or less shut down years ago when THQ went under. They sort of flopped around for about a year, finishing up and releasing Saints Row 4 and doing Gat Out of Hell, but that was basically the end point.
Criterion and Playground Games come to mind immediately. The former is an EA skinsuit and the latter had all their talent poached to make a feminist GTA clone.
Now I wish we could have a proper Paradise City sequel.
EA did a remaster and forced DICE to make it, which was amusing. Did the same with Hot Pursuit 2010.
DICE is basically dead since BF2042, just kept around as code monkeys for other projects.
Probably as some companies go broke and then take the woke money which is drying up now after over a decade of cheap credit.
I think this began with Agents of Mayhem. It was a fun idea on paper, but the execution wasn't all that great. It never really found an audience. Then with the SR reboot, they made a game that not only didn't have an audience, but outright didn't want the old audience either. If they weren't so openly hostile about it, I wouldn't have cared and would have moved on without a word.
But they wanted this, so enjoy it. You earned it.
AFAIK, no one from the original saints row trilogy was even there anymore.
I guess the SR2 update they told IdolNinja they'd work on is officially done too. Not that I expected anything from it, honestly, given their track record of fuck people who kept us afloat all these years.
Just y'know it's a promise to a person who passed away from cancer and all.
Yeah the game was extremely woke. You had female Muslim superheroes, a black lesbian soldier in an interracial relationship with one of the other agents who just won't shut up about it throughout the game, and every other diverse checkpoint you could think of.
The livestreams and developer updates were all about how "diverse" the game was and how "diverse" their voice acting casts was, and it was all about "diversity" this and "diversity" that and creating characters for a "diverse" audience, which is why it was such a soulless, bland, EGS-approved shooter.
They should have been shutdown then, but it's good they're finally shutting down after that horrible Saints Row reboot.
Do you think anyone involved will learn any worthwhile lessons from this?
They'll learn they're still oppressed by straight white men and da patriarchy and that they need to go even harder on the rainbow mafia feminazi propaganda.
They are banking that in 10ish or 20 years, all the lgbt and cuck blm propaganda would come into fruition and that these games will be masterpieces. We are all currently too dumb to understand their genius.
I said worthwhile...
Learning requires the capacity for introspection.
Yes, but they left years ago.
Rip. Freespace was good.
Farewell, Admiral Bosch, you mad bastard. Hopefully you found your new horizon, and didn't get horribly butchered like the Iceni's crew was.
Apparently the community theory is he was the pilot you played in freespace 1s expansion, silent threat
I thought that was pretty much confirmed? In one of his monologues, he directly says he was a young pilot who fought against GTI.
Nobody who had any touch of the magic that went into those games remained at volition, I'm certain. That was 24 years ago and all they've made since is family guy humor does GTA.
And summoner! They had a couple hidden gems and it's a shame they got taken over by the woke virus.
Why did they remove commenting
Nichegamer went to the ebaums model over a year ago.
Its gonna go down in flames like angry gamer. Rip.
Probably to make money off the paltry amount of comments their articles were getting. Could be an excuse to not have to moderate it as much.
No point in reading a site which had a comments section, then removes it for bogus reasons.
they are admitting the comments are worth more than the articles
they could keep it at pay to comment and have the comments visible, think lotuseaters does that
That's a real shame. I really loved Summoner and Red Faction during the PS2 days.
Given how the last Saint's Row looked, I can see they closed their doors of their own... Volition.
Fixed
I haven't played any other than 1 and have had Armageddon in my library forever after I got it for something ridiculous like 50 cents. Is that worth installing?
Good riddance. Fuck them. Their wokeness finally comes to roost
I remember free space 2... good times.
They had a strong start but unfortunately let the woke blurple haired nutters infiltrate, subvert and destroy.
You need to be extra careful about who you hire these days. Starting with who you hire in HR.
With all the stuff you can do with a game engine these days, why choose this? It's like the studios haven't figured out their size isn't worth it anymore, so they insist on doing a really bad game as their last one. A spit at us as they drown.
Good ridence
I miss Saints Row 2
From Freespace to Saints Woke. That hurts to watch.
I guess I should pick up SR4 next-gen before it gets delisted.
Embracer is being ruthless here, and the stock jumped 5% on this news.
Jesus. What the fuck happened in May?
Embracer lost an unnamed major partner.
True, but decisive actions like this will help reverse the decline.
Embracer grew too large to manage, it's now time to sell and kill off IPs and studios.
Why would you even want to play SR4 though
Too many female characters? It's a fair point, but I like how crazy it was.
Prototype was a better "superhero action game in an open world," as was Infamous (and Infamous 2 has the best bromance in any game ever made) unless you were only in it for the wacky shenanigans.
Which if that's your desire, I guess yeah that's basically the only choice.