Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value'

[screen_shatter@lemmy.world]

Are their offices rent controlled?

[creamyjalapenosauce@piefed.social]

All my dreams for Control 2 just went up in smoke

[criss_cross@lemmy.world]

You’ll get control legends with loot boxes and micro transactions.

[tronn4@lemmy.world]

Control 2026. Control 2027. Control 2028

[venator@lemmy.nz]

You can thank Hideki Hayakawa, who turned thier Digital Entertainment (home videogames) division into more casino type things, completed around when Hideo left:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL-BmDNuS7w

And now thier "Digital Entertainment" division is way more profitable:
https://www.pcgamer.com/konami-just-had-its-best-ever-year-thanks-to-games-youve-never-heard-of/

[doublah@sopuli.xyz]

From what I understand Epic gave them a blank check for the development of the game, which is great when it comes to developing that game for the creatives involved.

But they did expect some sales revenue after release so they could develop other games and because Epic aren't a very good publisher (not just in the forced EGS exclusivity, but the lack of marketing and physical console editions) their business plans likely got very shaky.

[skaverat@discuss.tchncs.de]

Every artifact is a lootbox instead

[aksdb@lemmy.world]

If you hold Control that high, then no worries: everything will be under Control.

[carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works]

Control 2 should hopefully be fine as the CEO is new and it is scheduled for the first half of the year (They told investors 2026H1 and no one would lie to investors /s). Not so sure about anything else.

[piemeplenty@lemmy.world]

Remedy already has lasting value in our hearts you out of touch dork!

[agentrocket@feddit.org]

IMO Alan Wake 2 could have performed much better if it wasn't an Epic exclusive, but from what I heard, because of that deal, Remedy got their development cost back before the game officially broke even.

Don't know what to think of Firebreak, because it's a genre i don't like (coop) and that doesn't go well with Remedys biggest strength, the storytelling. Until recently i didn't even know the game existed.

[thingsiplay@lemmy.ml]

Remedy is cooked.

[mynameisatticus@lemmy.world]

Firebreak was fun and really solid, definitely lacking a lot of content though. I think Remedy’s scale and (I believe) It being handled by a sister studio they setup definitely provided a hurdle.

Once i saw everything there is to see, there’s not a lot keeping me coming back except when i get an itch for the gameplay loop again. I got maybe 100 hours out of it playing with friends. and even then, thats just me.

[tigeroovy@lemmy.ca]

Well hopefully at least we’ll get one more good game out of them with Control 2. Maybe also the Max Payne remake. Hopefully they’re too far along for Mr. Shareholder Speak to fuck it up. But I guess we’ll see.

[noobdoomguy8658@feddit.org]

RIP, thanks for the fun.

[cantaloupe877@lemmy.world]

Smells cooked to me.

[lunarloony@lemmy.sdf.org]

I've always preferred the term IAP (in-app purchase), especially since the transactions are anything but micro

[schwertimstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

same could have been said about Blizzard

[i_clean_here@lemmy.world]

Just don't overextend, Remedy. Stay in your niche you dumbasses. Stay unique. No one cares about Firebreak exactly because it is just some lame copycat bullshit.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value'

Checks corpo-speak to English dictionary:

Lasting value is cash: Scale plan: First down, drastically, then bisect as many times as possible, then sell off the chunks to the highest bidders.