| smroadkill15 said: Wtf has Embracer even released?? They cancel ten times as many games as they release. How is Embracer ever going to get a hit if they cancel everything?The only games I know Embracer has released is some remasters. They are truly a shit company that should die off and sell the rest of their assets so atleast those studios have a chance. |
They actually release a good bit, if you look at their Wikipedia game lists their first publisher alone, THQ Nordic, has released several dozen games and ports since they opened in 2011. They have acquired quite a few other publishers since then including Koch Media/Plaion, Gearbox, Saber Interactive, and DECA Games. Across all divisions they have released over 100 games I believe.
The issue is most people don't realize what they release because so many of their studios are AA or smaller, alot of their games fly totally under people's Radar because they aren't AAA. Their actual AAA offerings have been pretty poor the last few years, Saints Row reboot flopped, Dead Island 2 was only a middling success, 4A haven't released anything since Metro Exodus in 2019, Aspyr's KOTOR remake with Sony and Disney disappointed both in the vertical slice demo and ended up cancelled, Gearbox haven't released anything AAA Embracer themselves can publish since being acquired (same with Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal).
Now they are going around cancelling games left and right, including one of the few noteworthy AAA games they had in development, the next Deus Ex by Eidos. They grew much too fast and never took the time to give the studios they already owned a chance to see if they could actually put out hit games. Then when those studios failed to deliver big hits and Embracer has billions of acquisition debt, now they are reeling from the effects and trying to sell off studios and close studios to get their debt paid off.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 15 February 2024
