| shikamaru317 said: Well, this is worrisome. Hopefully they will just be closing some of the many tiny, relatively unknown studios they own, and not any of the more well known ones they own like Crystal, Eidos, Gearbox, Tarsier, Saber, Coffee Stain, Cryptic, Volition, Dambuster, Fishlabs, Free Radical, Flying Wild Hog, Warhorse, 4A, New World, or Black Forest. |
Sucks to see anyone laid off but I don't think you have to worry about a lot of those, Embracer will likely (Imo) close a bunch of their small A-AA studios and focus on their big ones which bring in millions already and focus on the AAA stuff.
Crystal Dynamics will be fine, one half of them are being funded by Microsoft, the other half is being funded by Amazon, Embracer will make quite a nice amount of cash from them. Eidos is probably in a more riskier spot since their IPs are never that huge but there was rumours that Microsoft is also co-developing things with Eidos as well.
Gearbox will absolutely be fine, they're almost certainly self-sufficient by a huge margin, plus Take-Two remains the publisher of Borderlands. Tarsier Idk. Sabre studio be fine as a huge support studio. Coffee Stain should be fine. Cryptic Idk. Volition...Probably in trouble. Dambuster will be fine given the success of Dead Island 2. Fishlabs Idk. Free Radical Idk. Flying Wild Hog...Fine? Warhorse should be fine. 4A should be fine. New World Idk and Black Forest Idk.
coolbeans said:
Yeah. It kinda sucks too given their recent conference held some promise. Not mind-melting or anything, but still a solid flex for a middle-market publisher. |
The Saudi's really fucked them, I hope it gives other developers pause when choosing to work with Saudi Arabia or get funding from them but then again, Embracer really shouldn't have just accepted a verbal agreement, that's amateur shit. They should have had it down in writing before making any moves.
When people speculated it was Microsoft there was a bit of pushback by some who know how Microsoft operates saying they'd never do a verbal agreement like that, they'd make sure that shit is in firm writing first so it just makes this whole situation look a bit amateur on both sides but only Embracer Group will suffer from it.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 18 August 2023
