Lionhead Shutting Down. Fable Legends Cancelled.

[Scoobes]

OneKartVita said:

Chazore said:

They killed Ensemble studios a while back, though it's still surprising to see them shutting down yet another studio, especially one they touted DX 12 with.

Shutting Ensemble down was bad.  Was the studio really losing them money or were they just not making enough? 

Yes and no. The studio made profitable games, however, they had an online game in the works for which they hired a load of staff which then got cancelled. However, they kept the extra staff for their remaining development projects (AoE III and Halo Wars) but that also meant disproportionately higher costs for games in a genre that wasn't popular on consoles. As MS' priority at the time was 360, they shut the studio down. It was still a shock to the people at the studio as all their games had been successful and profitable.

OT: This is quite a surprise. Fable Legends was in beta after years of investment. When the game is almost ready to start making a return they decide to completely remove the developers from the equation?! Why not wait until the games actually out and they only need to run maintenance and support? It makes no sense to me. 

Hopefully the developers find work quickly. I imagine there will be a fair few studios looking to recruit from the ex-Lionhead talent pool.