505 Games Shuts Multiple Offices As Remedy Acquires Rights To Control IP

I hope we're still getting Control 2.

We're seeing the industry collapse before our very eyes...😱

Control is one of those games that gave me mixed feelings. On one hand I like the premise and themes. Blending together such things as cosmic horror, mystery, and conspiracy.

On the other hand however, I felt like it didn't dive deep enough into it's own weirdness. The exploration is top notch. There is a general feeling surprise around every corner. However, the combat is the least interesting part of the whole game.

While it's fun using your space gun, and psychic powers, it's get repetitive and dull fighting the same enemies over and over again.

Control to me felt like one those games that didn't need combat. Atleast not the extent we were given. Maybe a few sections here and there. One of the enemies I liked best in the game, is the one you couldn't kill. It made you have to rely on other means of achieving your goal. Or the DLC boss, that was more of a puzzle than a straight fight.

I don't know. Just using your powers to solve puzzles was enough. I just got tired of shooting the same enemies over, and over again by the end.

@WiiWareWave We really are not. We're seeing the same thing happen in the game industry as happened after streaming services realized they couldn't just spend big on everything and keep seeing more profit every year. Remember all the articles about how awful the industry had gotten and how unhappy everyone was? Well this is the backside of that.

The stupid thing in a lot of these cases is that these companies are profitable. Even with increased wages, costs of making games and everything else recently they still turn a profit, but just not enough of a profit for the ceo's end of year bonus payout, and the shareholders dividend.

So sacrifice a few workers wages so the higher ups can show they increased profit or cut costs this year, it's all very grim.

@WiiWareWave good. a reset is needed. i say this as someone with a 25 year career in games.

Does this mean they can patch the old saves to work with the ultimate edition now?

@Coversnail I don't think 505 is the definition of greedy company not wanting to give up their 69th yacht. They're rather small in the grand scheme of the industry.

Yeah, seeing articles like this don’t feel like the industry is collapsing. It seems like the seeds of a new beginning, like all of these teams are going independent while massive publishers struggle to placate shareholders for one more year

@Ploppy no question it's on the way 👍

@Bratwurst35 I really enjoyed it, but it did get a little repetitive with the battles. Felt very much like Mass Effect where you could tell when a battle was coming by how the rooms were set up.

I think a lot of peoples views on business and the “industry”, which your favorite YT’ers know all of crap about, amounts to superstition. Those big bad CEO’s….

@WiiWareWave Oh its a bigger collapse than just video games. You can only keep lying to people how great the economy is doing when it's not for so long before it bites one's butt.

Will control be the next victim of cloud gaming?

cloud version of Control
Another big reason for fails.....

(consumers had become more selective with new games)
Not surprised when games cost about 70 pounds a go plus blc on top 😳😒

@IsThis5or6
What’s happening in the games industry right now was inevitable regardless of the state of the economy, the push for “AAA” games that started in the 360 era was unsustainable due to new hardware and game engines endlessly pushing the accepted level of fidelity which has resulted in massively prolonged dev cycles, absurd budgets and multiple studios being required for a single game (just look at a Ubisoft game).

the same dev that released bloodstained for switch in a horrible state till the former castlevania creator got on their case for doing that.

Control was okay. Don't think I'll be clamoring for a sequel as I just really wanted the first one to end.

These layoffs are an unfortunate correction caused by multiple things. The pandemic caused a huge ripple but the attempt to minimize crunch and poor management decisions are the larger part of this. At the end of the day it is has always played a part of the industry from the earliest days but one huge difference is now most companies have less tech people in management roles and more interchangeable corporate types that only know strap plans and ROI as opposed to understanding the actual development process.

@timschel

I promote you to Senior Module and Disc Manager.

But i agree, you can clearly see that the Industy is bloated and they aren't doing Games because they follow a creative and fun Idea, but they follow Rules to use Triggers of Addiction as Gambling Machines do.