Marvel's Midnight Suns developer hit by layoffs

Firaxis Games says that the redundancies come as it aligns talent against its "highest priorities"

[shinoff2183]

Damnit , shtty for those people. I've liked most of what I've played from them. Especially xcom. Love that to death. I still havent picked it up but it's in the plans. I personally think people were turned off due to the card based system. Despite that I've read it was good but I can't help but think it wasn't the smartest move.

[Yi-Long]

I think most of us just wanted X-Com but with Marvel, and they went with a card-game instead. I’m sure it’s a decent/good game, but for me personally, I never had an interest in playing a card game, and I never liked how Midnight Suns looked. I know it was based on a comic series, which is dark and has dark characters, but I’ve never been all that interested in ‘dark’ games, vampires, etc.

On top of that, I just wasn’t impressed with the character-design.

We know they can make brilliant games (X-Com 2), and they had access to one of the biggest licenses in the world, and it’s just a shame they chose a direction that just wasn’t very appealing to a lot of players.

[CrimsonWing69]

I think you should try it. The card game is literally just changing up your moves so you don’t spam powers and win without challenge.

There’s also no “missing” with moves.

It plays like X-Com other than that.

[anast]

Whoever made the decision to make a card game needs to be let go too.

[Strange99]

Midnight Suns missed the mark. I thought it would be great and it was a fail. So repetitive.

[potatoseal]

I heard the story was extremely bad on this. Bad and boring dialogue on cut scenes. I think I recall that from SkillUp's review

[potatoseal]

This game must have flopped

[sushimama]

Good luck finding new jobs. I didn't play the game and I had friends who enjoyed it. Still probably should have gone the x-com road