Ensemble Studios official closes its doors...

[disolitude]

axumblade said:

disolitude said:
I dont get it.

Someone still owns the Age of Empires IP...and if its successful and great as you all say it is, then it will be made again.

It may be a different company/people but realisticly speaking, howmany of the same people do you think worked on these games since the studio was created?

Key poeple could have left and the studio could have lost its focus...you never shut down a studio that is profitable and is able to deliver great games.

Even Microsoft knows this...

How many great games have been bought by another studio that have made terrible transitions?

I can think of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro for starters. Then throw in whatever EA has unleashed sacrilege on recently.

 

This is true mostly for the games that are the "cash in" type of games. Like I don't think there is a single developer out there that wants to make Spyro or crash games...other than Nintendo, they love that family stuff. But games will pull in major coin so companies get hired to make them without any passion...

But like take a look at Resident Evil 5, Street fighter 4...these are completely different people/teams developing than before and seems the results are fantastic.