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crissindahouse on 01 March 2012
sales2099 said:
5 people?

Were gonna see some nice XBLA games in a few years lol.


if you leave a company to open an own company it can't be bigger than one person or what is the message? that would be something new for me



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sales2099 on 01 March 2012
crissindahouse said:
sales2099 said:
5 people?

Were gonna see some nice XBLA games in a few years lol.


if you leave a company to open an own company it can't be bigger than one person or what is the message? that would be something new for me

Im saying 5 people cant make a big retail blockbuster.

To leave Lionhead with the salaries they get paid to form their own studio with the manpower to make mere XBLA games with 2 year dev cycles.....

Seems like your trading down, and is kinda stupid if you have families to support. 



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crissindahouse on 01 March 2012
sales2099 said:
crissindahouse said:
sales2099 said:
5 people?

Were gonna see some nice XBLA games in a few years lol.


if you leave a company to open an own company it can't be bigger than one person or what is the message? that would be something new for me

Im saying 5 people cant make a big retail blockbuster.

To leave Lionhead with the salaries they get paid to form their own studio with the manpower to make mere XBLA games with 2 year dev cycles.....

Seems like your trading down, and is kinda stupid if you have families to support. 

but you know you can get money from inverstors right? i don't know a  lot of people who opende a company only with their moeny on the bank account and if you are a well known guy in the industry you won't have huge problems to find investors to open a company with, let's say at least a staff for one "real" game. maybe they will get money from another big player to make a game THEY want and not what molyneux wants.



sales2099 on 01 March 2012
crissindahouse said:
sales2099 said:
crissindahouse said:
sales2099 said:
5 people?

Were gonna see some nice XBLA games in a few years lol.


if you leave a company to open an own company it can't be bigger than one person or what is the message? that would be something new for me

Im saying 5 people cant make a big retail blockbuster.

To leave Lionhead with the salaries they get paid to form their own studio with the manpower to make mere XBLA games with 2 year dev cycles.....

Seems like your trading down, and is kinda stupid if you have families to support. 

but you know you can get money from inverstors right? i don't know a  lot of people who opende a company only with their moeny on the bank account and if you are a well known guy in the industry you won't have problems to find investors to open a company with, let's say at least a staff for one "real" game.

Still only gonna be a downloadable title. And even then you need marketing to get the word out. Just saying they better have a plan. Probably make a great game they have planned and hope they get bought up by a big company when the reviews are good.  



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

crissindahouse on 01 March 2012
sales2099 said:
crissindahouse said:
sales2099 said:
crissindahouse said:
sales2099 said:
5 people?

Were gonna see some nice XBLA games in a few years lol.


if you leave a company to open an own company it can't be bigger than one person or what is the message? that would be something new for me

Im saying 5 people cant make a big retail blockbuster.

To leave Lionhead with the salaries they get paid to form their own studio with the manpower to make mere XBLA games with 2 year dev cycles.....

Seems like your trading down, and is kinda stupid if you have families to support. 

but you know you can get money from inverstors right? i don't know a  lot of people who opende a company only with their moeny on the bank account and if you are a well known guy in the industry you won't have problems to find investors to open a company with, let's say at least a staff for one "real" game.

Still only gonna be a downloadable title. And even then you need marketing to get the word out. Just saying they better have a plan. Probably make a great game they have planned and hope they get bought up by a big company when the reviews are good.  

ok it's not possible to find a new publisher (ea partner program for example) who will pay for advertisement then if you have a good idea for a game and open a studio with 40 members or even more? i think respawn for example did that and i think they make a full retail game (but not sure about that)

i'm not saying it will happen but it's possible if they want.



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Xenostar on 01 March 2012
sales2099 said:
crissindahouse said:
sales2099 said:
crissindahouse said:
sales2099 said:
5 people?

Were gonna see some nice XBLA games in a few years lol.


if you leave a company to open an own company it can't be bigger than one person or what is the message? that would be something new for me

Im saying 5 people cant make a big retail blockbuster.

To leave Lionhead with the salaries they get paid to form their own studio with the manpower to make mere XBLA games with 2 year dev cycles.....

Seems like your trading down, and is kinda stupid if you have families to support. 

but you know you can get money from inverstors right? i don't know a  lot of people who opende a company only with their moeny on the bank account and if you are a well known guy in the industry you won't have problems to find investors to open a company with, let's say at least a staff for one "real" game.

Still only gonna be a downloadable title. And even then you need marketing to get the word out. Just saying they better have a plan. Probably make a great game they have planned and hope they get bought up by a big company when the reviews are good.  

Tell that to the people that left LionHead to make media molecule, seems they make million selling box product blockbusters. You do realise 5 left but they are allowed to employ others. 



Euphoria14 on 01 March 2012
sales2099 said:
crissindahouse said:
sales2099 said:
5 people?

Were gonna see some nice XBLA games in a few years lol.


if you leave a company to open an own company it can't be bigger than one person or what is the message? that would be something new for me

Im saying 5 people cant make a big retail blockbuster.

To leave Lionhead with the salaries they get paid to form their own studio with the manpower to make mere XBLA games with 2 year dev cycles.....

Seems like your trading down, and is kinda stupid if you have families to support. 

Media Molecule started off with just (6) people and they worked in a studio above a toilet store. They built a game that was eventually picked up and funded by Sony and that game went on to sell 4.8M copies. I also hear they were only at maybe 20 or so employees by the time the game was released.

They also originally left Lionhead.



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Darth Tigris on 01 March 2012
D-Joe said:
maverick40 said:
Xenostar said:
I hope they just dont turn into another Rare, once great british studios forced to being Microsoft's casual Kinect crap studios

Yeah true actually, RIP Rare.

first of all,MS gave Rare so much freedom and chance(they don't even check what they were doing),until every game flopped then tell them make Kinect Sports(and it success)

 

and MS turn Lionhead?you know what,Peter Molyneux can do what he want(since 2009),he just love Fable even many people want them make other games

People don't want to acknowledge that, though.  They still want to blame theoretical MS interference for Rare not having the prestige it enjoyed in the 90's.



Dr.Grass on 01 March 2012
D-Joe said:
maverick40 said:
Xenostar said:
I hope they just dont turn into another Rare, once great british studios forced to being Microsoft's casual Kinect crap studios

Yeah true actually, RIP Rare.

first of all,MS gave Rare so much freedom and chance(they don't even check what they were doing),until every game flopped then tell them make Kinect Sports(and it success)

 

and MS turn Lionhead?you know what,Peter Molyneux can do what he want(since 2009),he just love Fable even many people want them make other games

There's a Eurogamer article you should read.



D-Joe on 01 March 2012
Dr.Grass said:
D-Joe said:
maverick40 said:
Xenostar said:
I hope they just dont turn into another Rare, once great british studios forced to being Microsoft's casual Kinect crap studios

Yeah true actually, RIP Rare.

first of all,MS gave Rare so much freedom and chance(they don't even check what they were doing),until every game flopped then tell them make Kinect Sports(and it success)

 

and MS turn Lionhead?you know what,Peter Molyneux can do what he want(since 2009),he just love Fable even many people want them make other games

There's a Eurogamer article you should read.

you didn't read it then



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