Looking at the website, it seems like the only games VVS has worked on are games from Niantic. I find it strange that Niantic would rely on this subcontractor as opposed to doing it all in house. Maybe accounting fuckery? I've heard of companies preferring temps to be contractors instead of employees.
Their first couple of things didn't require avatars or particularly complex modelling. Field Trip was just extra info for Google Maps and Ingress's graphics were rather simplistic, particularly before the change to the third generation (?) graphics. I can see them getting outside help for humanoid avatars.
could be a compartmentalization to facilitate quotas and more favorable bank loans. do not underestimate the fuckery the financial system exerts on all industries.
At least the ones responsible got laid off. But unfortunately these harpies and fags will fail sideways and upwards. Probably hired by Blizzard by now lol.
If you go through the scored side of the interface. If you still access the site through the kia2.win domain (which I think looks nicer and is better overall), you won’t see the scored stuff like avatars.
It never works out doing that, you can give it to another division or have a team that used to work on it be commissioned but outsourcing usually leads to substandard results. It's like the only part I didn't like in Deus Ex Human Revolution was the boss battles that were outsourced to a different studio.
The studio should be shut down. They were hired to revamp the avatars. They revamped them in a way that the players universally panned. I didn’t even see much in the way of the DEI faithful praising the new designs as being representative of actual people, which was the target audience. A consulting firm with shit product has no reason to exist.
I wouldn't mind adding the new avatars if they gave players the option to keep the old ones. Also, the new ones were weird and ugly. All of the faces look weird and the body proportions were all off. And there was no option for muscular men or women with hips, butts or boobs. Very odd if they're trying to represent all body types.
Pokemon GO had a separate studio for the avatars? How many fucking subcontractors does one game need?
The games industry is such a bloated mess. It's turning into the federal government.
Looking at the website, it seems like the only games VVS has worked on are games from Niantic. I find it strange that Niantic would rely on this subcontractor as opposed to doing it all in house. Maybe accounting fuckery? I've heard of companies preferring temps to be contractors instead of employees.
Easier to get rid of them when you don't need them than full employees.
Their first couple of things didn't require avatars or particularly complex modelling. Field Trip was just extra info for Google Maps and Ingress's graphics were rather simplistic, particularly before the change to the third generation (?) graphics. I can see them getting outside help for humanoid avatars.
There's this weird thing that happens when a company makes a lot of money, they just spend more money on stupid shit.
could be a compartmentalization to facilitate quotas and more favorable bank loans. do not underestimate the fuckery the financial system exerts on all industries.
Senior character artist Kelsey Martin, who created the new ugly avatars, is among those who lost their jobs.
Everything went better than expected.
At least the ones responsible got laid off. But unfortunately these harpies and fags will fail sideways and upwards. Probably hired by Blizzard by now lol.
Let Actiblizz have them, it's not like it's a good company they'd ruin.
Why do so many millennial companies have buttfucking retarded names?
Because they never grew up. These names were something a kid would make for their first business.
How did two people use "buttfucking" within one minute? Is there word filter on "gay" or "faggot" or something?
And both as an adverb at that. I don't think I've ever heard it used as an adverb.
They also share the same default avatar. ¡Praise kek!
We have avatars? 🤔
If you go through the scored side of the interface. If you still access the site through the kia2.win domain (which I think looks nicer and is better overall), you won’t see the scored stuff like avatars.
Not going to lie, I'm pretty confused as well.
So wait what, the outsourced the avatar designs?
It never works out doing that, you can give it to another division or have a team that used to work on it be commissioned but outsourcing usually leads to substandard results. It's like the only part I didn't like in Deus Ex Human Revolution was the boss battles that were outsourced to a different studio.
Layoffs aren't enough.
We need to hire Shinji Aoba to finish the job.
What kind of buttfucking retard thought those where would be good
The studio should be shut down. They were hired to revamp the avatars. They revamped them in a way that the players universally panned. I didn’t even see much in the way of the DEI faithful praising the new designs as being representative of actual people, which was the target audience. A consulting firm with shit product has no reason to exist.
I wouldn't mind adding the new avatars if they gave players the option to keep the old ones. Also, the new ones were weird and ugly. All of the faces look weird and the body proportions were all off. And there was no option for muscular men or women with hips, butts or boobs. Very odd if they're trying to represent all body types.