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I have never called anyone an “asshole” in any forum. Ever.

When your game comes out let me know, I’m keen to give it a try.

Good luck. I wish you alll the best and hope you find happiness.

I’m behind in my games. Having kids and needing to play stuff for work means I miss out on a lot. So I just now got to finish the campaign for Horizon Zero Dawn.

It’s the best game I’ve played in years. The story was amazing and heart breaking and I loved Aloy as a character and her arc. Gameplay was great. I even dug the stealth bits. Loved the archery. Totally ruined the archery in the new Zelda for me.

I’m going back in for a New Game+ playthrough when I get the chance.

Thank you for the insight! This is a really interesting post and I am glad you provided this information as a (former) insider

No worries. Now like some kind of crazy surfer chasing the high of a crisp fresh crunchy waves, I'm off. I'll return one day when you least want me to expect it.

Ouw man that was a first class burn

These threads happen. Not just here, and not just for Relic.

I worked on EASPORTS NHL for a year between Relic stints and people were sure that 2K was going to start making hockey games again and EA would shut it down and just focus on FIFA and MADDEN. That was 2012, and they're still making NHL games in Burnaby.

I have no idea what's the situation at Relic. I don't think the evidence presented is proof that they're going away, or one game from closing. But then again game studios close for a bunch of different reasons often without warning. I mean I was at THQ and they invested all their money in a Hollywood director who never made a game, and UDraw tablets and then had to close a bunch of studios because they suddenly had no money for some reason.

Heck we just saw EA close a studio staffed with incredibly talented people working on a much anticipated Star Wars game that never came out. So who knows. That's one of the shitty parts of working in the game industry, there's not the sense of job stability that there is in say dentistry. (Also oddly more biting in game development).

But if I, a guy who worked there for 4 years (in two separate stints) can't really guess what the future holds (even though I know people there, work in the same city and so on) then dude from CA who edited videos for a bit certainly isn't your source for inside information. Sure he's a nice guy, but just like I wouldn't expect to be the authority on what's up with CA, he's probably not your go-to guy for Relic.

The only real evidence in this thread either way is that moving to a new studio is expensive and time consuming. If SEGA had plans to shut down Relic at this point, they'd probably just do their best to keep them where they are. Moving likely means they see a long term future with the studio in Vancouver.

Could that change? Sure. SEGA could invest heavily in UDraw tablets. Weirder things have happened.

And look I get it. The game industry is complicated and hard to understand even from the inside, so on the outside with the bits of information you're able to glean it's natural that you put it together into a narrative that supports what you probably kind of already assumed or wanted to be true. It's the way we as humans work, we're pattern recognition machines.


Edit: Avoiding the double post. Also added "likely" to a sentence since I'm not able to draw a definitive conclusion.

If we look at games and support after 2013, i feel relic are close to dead, virgule. You have talant to make games, but have 0 knowledge how support them.

I have never claimed to have talent, so stop libelling me.

I'm old enough to remember when Relic shut down in 2013 and we were all laid off following the release of CoH2. Oh wait, Relic didn't close then as predicted by the impeccable forum science? Man, I guess I shouldn't have stopped going into work if that's the case. I thought SEGA had shut us down!