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[Updated] Telltale Games Lays Off More Staff - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 October 2018 / 4,293 Views
Update:
Noel has since clairified that it's only her team that has been let go, and that others are still active.
Original:
Just two weeks ago it was revealed that Telltale Games had laid off the majority of its staff, with only 25 employees remaining. It appears the rest of the staff hasn't remained with the company long, as they have been laid off.
The Narrative Designer at the studio Rachel Noel announced on Twitter the rest of the skeleton crew has been let go.
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I'm not really sure what they expected to do? Keep on coming in and being the narrative designer for a closed studio?
See they're trying to get the absolutely most money out of the TT games too, seen the Batman series 2 just dropped on the Switch out of nowhere for €45 this week, can imagine that game will get tons of patches / support if required...
Yeah I do not really understand the complaint either. Obviously Telltale was going to fire everyone eventually ...
I got Batman: The Telltale Series Ep 1 on PS4, which relesed in 2016, via PS+ this past summer, and based on what I experienced, I don't think any patches were forthcoming, regardless of the financial health of Telltale. Lol. Aside from its generally poor performance, it's one of only a small handful of games that don't support PS4 Pro boost mode. I liked it in spite of it's gross laziness, but It was in dire need of support it never received.
you say lazy Coktoe, keep in mind you're talking about a game where one of the "artists" working on it copy pasted an actual picture of a dead man into one of the scenes near a safe which had to be patched out of the game after launch. Google "telltale batman dead picture" if interested, it's pretty messed up for the family of the dead ambassador.
! I remember hearing about that, but had entirely forgotten about it. I'll try to give it a look tomorrow.
Huh, curious to see if a major company buys the company. They made compelling products, they had success, they just went a bad direction.
Right. There's nothing to buy at this point. It's possible that somebody might want to buy some of the partially completed games from them. But, certainly nobody would pay any money for a shell of a company.
Maybe The Telltale name has some value, but not much.
Well they would own the rights on the games they developed, even if they own the IP. They would own their engine, they would get profits from continuing to sell games that were ported to various platforms, and they could bring back a small team to work on worthwhile projects. Like maybe 1 or 2 games a year at most.
They still own the game engine, the Telltale Tool, so that's an asset.
Survival of the fittest. Someone wins and someone else fails. That is the nature of Capitalism. Just like nature itself.
No, it was just bad management. They have relatively little competition in this genre, but they released too much in a short period.
Capitalism has nothing to do with nature. In nature, we only have the evolutionary advantages that we share in COMMON with every other individual of the same species. It is then down to our individual instincts of survival and proliferation.
In capitalism, you have inherited advantages that differ between a same People, permitting some to have a deal facto advantage in life over others. Capitalism would be like nature, if in nature some lions are given wings by their parents to help them hunt easier - or if a tiger had the capacity to suppress other tigers and disallow them from being able to have access to the same amount or quality of game.
