| morenoingrato said: http://kotaku.com/bioshock-studio-irrational-games-is-winding-down-all-1525186316 "While I'm deeply proud of what we've accomplished together, my passion has turned to making a different kind of game than we've done before," Levine wrote. "To meet the challenge ahead, I need to refocus my energy on a smaller team with a flatter structure and a more direct relationship with gamers. In many ways, it will be a return to how we started: a small team making games for the core gaming audience."
Conspiracy theorists like me think it was financial and there was not enough profit to satisfy Take Two. The game did have a pretty long dev cycle and early footage showed many things completely different from the final product. It is a shame the game did not do better. |
Reading what Levine said in interviews before Infinite released and what team members said afterwards, I doubt it was a case of Irrational simply being closed by 2k. He really did not seem to like being the "boss" on a big project, he even said he wasn't that good at it. He's extremely demanding on himself and others and it sounds like running such a large studio took its toll. I think he wanted to step away from that. I do, however, believe that 2k had no intentions of keeping Irrational going if Levine left.
