Insomniac Games has sent a message to fans following the announcement that Sony Interactive Entertainment has purchased the developer.
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.
Former Deviation Games developers have formed a new studio at Sony Interactive Entertainment in order to work on a brand new PlayStation IP.
Well that's an awesome and very surprising turnaround. Cheers to the new studio and what they'll build!
It is not about money it is about talent.. get that talent in and they will take care of you and earn you that money
I had picked up on this before the Deviation shutdown was announced. It was pointed out that a senior manager of the team had joined PlayStation prior to the close. It was a little suspicious because from the outside in, it appeared had basically poached Deviation's talent.
Reading some of the other comments it seems this is understood to be the case.
In other news it would be wild if Sony winds up announcing a brand new internal studio.
That's..... confusing, so shut down but just reformed and same employer 🤔 sounds like pretty much what happened to Japan Studio basically just being rebranded as Asobi
It is odd one I don't know how business deals work or the law of that kind of stuff. But is it possible Sony reached out and said hey we want you apart of Sony but don't want to purchase you for what ever reason. How about use disband and we will open a studio and hire you guys type of thing. Is that even possible?
I guess the deviation team fell apart and didn't deliver good progress on what they pitched (they overhyped themselves when the team was announced)so Sony shut them down. They regrouped with a new team and a new pitch so Sony is giving them another shot.
And this time they are keeping it quiet to keep pressure down on the team. So people aren't asking everyday what deviation(or whatever the new team is called) is doing.
Edit: Also Sony never owned them. They just ended their partnership with them. Deviation decided to close on their own.
Good point. You know, i was thinking of Days Gone too. They pitch an idea to Sony for Days Gone 2 but Sony didnt like it do they scrapped the whole thing. Maybe if a good pitch came by...they'd reconsider it.
To be fair, Sony didn't shut them down. Devation was independent. Sony pulled funding on the project they were working on. As a result, they couldn't run so Devation decided to close on their own.
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The management at Deviation was reportedly a problem. Sony cut their funding and when the studio layoffs began they bought the talent back up
It's probably cheaper to grab the talent than to anage a full studio as a second party.
Maybe we see the game at the PS showcase?
Good for them that they were able to work it out. Hopefully they're developing something interesting.
I think Sony is thinking long term as a replacement for Call of Duty M$ edition.
If they can pull off at least 2 more games similar to Helldivers 2 they won't have to worry about that COD deal anymore (my personal opinion, not fact)
The best thing they can do is make something old school based
The issue with COD is that it's so over the top and arcade like now where it feels more like you are relying on gimmicks and what you've unlocked rather than skill.
If they can create an old school like first person shooter where "less is more" and not a game that relies on a drip feed road map then they'll get some attention.
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"It feels more like a homecoming though" , exactly! Sony managed since the PS1 decades ago to provide developers an open place to developed their games more freely than any other Game Company, not only Insomniac was pushed by Sony to be huge and successful developers and being known of their work, but Playstation pushed also other developers to success like Capcom, SquareEnix,Rockstar Games, Konami, Polyphony, Namco, Santa Monica, Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Eidos, Quantum Dream, Media Molecule just to name few, heck! even EA, Ubisoft lol, all these developers are also part of the Playstation Family if you didn't know, Sony help them create new IPs and make famous other IP's, and so we all should be grateful Playstation exists. :)
Seriously I dare you to tell me other game company besides Sony Entertainment that has make so many game companies to be multi million successful game companies, hehe I think we should be thankful of Nintendo too for not teaming up with Sony decades ago, that day the game industry savior was born like it or not.
Playstation FTW!!!!
So Spiderman might be back in the MCU, turns out Disney knows they f#%* up. Wonder what #boycottsony group is going to say now?
They should have grabbed Insomniac ever since they made Spyro, or at the very latest Ratchet & clank. Not to mention that they helped IMMENSELY with the launch of PS3 with Resistance..Man we need a Resistance 4 now, like ASAP.
Sounds like a few bitter ones commenting. Now Sony have insomniac that’s another nail in the Xbox coffin😂😂
This is all you need to know about the deal.
"Further, we believe that Sony shares a similar vision to positively impact players’ lives, their employees’ lives and the games industry at large."
Sony changed gaming forever with the first PlayStation and they've cultivated a good culture around it ever since. They've always delivered good hardware, good service and most importantly good games. Insomniac is lucky to be part of the family and Sony in turn is lucky to have insomniac.
You could say the relationship is symbiotic.