They did their thing. No use of them anymore :)

He went on: "It is a gross but all too common sight to see, another corporate game hitting the top of Steam while the team is left looking for work and cut off from any possible profit sharing.

And, there it is.

There go my hopes of a post launch performance patch.

The game runs like arse even on a 9070XT.

Unions. Not just for blue collars anymore.

Gamerant is saying the studio was low on funds and facing a $20 million dollar lawsuit from a former exec when the workers were furloughed weeks prior to launch, that dozens of employees have already been brought back, and that Bit Locker is claiming to want to bring the rest back.

This was their first game, and if they do bring back the team members (with back pay) now that the game is a sucess, I would actually be much more understanding.

This game has absolutely horrendous performance problems.

It baffles me that people are rating this higher than games like KOTOR and Republic Commando.

A wise man once said devs that are afraid of losing their jobs dont go on to make great games. I was going to purchase this game but now ill wait till its on super sale.

What's the point? You can't even enjoy your laurels. Just fucked the minute release hits so they dont have to pay you. Fucked up. Nobody should work for a game corporation.

I think we're approaching a point where games are going to be made like movies.

Teams assembled for one project, everyone does their bit, and are then discarded when they're no longer needed.

Big publishers will probably have a pool of people they can push between projects depending on what's needed. Ubisoft appear to do that, when you look at the credits in their games, there's like 10 subsidiary studios involved. For smaller studios, you'll probably be let go between games until you're needed again. Maybe they'll keep your information and rehire you because you did a good job of hard surface rigging or whatever last time. Maybe they hire an excited school-leaver to sloperate a clanker. Who knows.

Leveraged buyout. Any dev still on payroll is a liability, and it's not like these guys make Ultimate Team. EA's got a lot of debt to service.

EDIT:

Actually, they might not be wholly owned by EA. I'm uncertain of the relationship here. It could just be that the developer stretched their budget down to the last second, before they're paid out.

Uncertainty around the TTRPG's performance is to blame.

TTRPG does not apply here. They meant it's a tactics game.

The unfortunate reality of it now, like having to keep your CV constantly updated and ready if ever to be laid off at any time. And it's worse than ever.

Yet another certified bruh moment,

The devs keep getting stabbed in the back by evil greedy CEOs

I won’t even buy the game then

You'll be surprised how many Star Wars games got canned in the last two years. I can't really say because of NDAs and don't want anyone in trouble. The whole industry is in trouble.

"Congratulations. Great job. Goodbye now."

Yeah I'll not be buying this then.

I was considering buying this as a massive fan of XCOM 2.

Was.

I'll just keep playing Cyber Knights: Flashpoint thank you very much.

I'm sick of this

If CEO fire whole team, how will you create a new success?

Good teams are not conodity.

So to reduce time spent looking for new jobs, devs should make sure games take even longer to develop and are in even worse shape at release so they have to hold onto the team for bug fixes.

Live by the AAA die by the AAA

For anyone who wants this style of game, but doesn't want to support this, Xenonauts 2 released version 1.0 a few months ago. It's trying to be more classic X-COM, rather than modern XCOM, like what this game is copying (and simplifying even more). It's easily the best of the genre I've played, and it'll also run on pretty much any system you've got fine.

I gave it the 2 hour test run on Linux and I get getting blackscreens and stutter so unfortunately it went to refund town.

I haven't run into any game breaking bugs on PS5 (Pro, at least). It's unfortunate that it seems like PC has had the brunt of the bugs.

I've definitely seen some shadow bugs and texture things, but the game runs smooth for the most part otherwise.

I hope they get a chance to fix the issues.