Saints Row developer Volition shuts down after 30 years
(nichegamer.com)
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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.