Alone In The Dark Studio 'Pieces Interactive' Has Been Closed By Embracer Group

I enjoyed the alone in the dark remake hope the team lands on the feet soon

What a horrible state the video game industry is in.
It's like developers are sat with a gun to their heads as they work, knowing that unless they produce the "most successful game ever", it's all over for them.

So they're forced to emulate the few other mega popular titles out there, and as the market is saturated by everyonedoing the same, sales are rarely high enough. It's a horrible, creatively bankrupt vicious circle.

Best wishes to everyone affected.

we really need a documentary series about game developers before a.i. replaces them.

Was the latest alone in the dark any good?
It looks like id be into it hopefully it comes to game pass or at least a good sale I might play it then

@Eejay It's like developers are sat with a gun to their heads as they work, knowing that unless they produce the "most successful game ever", it's all over for them.

Because a shareholder is sat in their sun lounger with a cigar, a blue movie looking star and a super car parked outside looking at their Investments.

We cannot disappoint them.

@EdgarTheBug Yep, I remember when the first rumblings of "The video game industry is bigger than Hollywood " started, and actually thinking it was a good thing that our hobby was so popular.

What we're witnessing now is the logical endpoint of that.

Embrace the studio closures I guess

@Eejay Yup, the Hollywood disease.

I hate to say it, but the team itself needed some major restructuring in leadership based on how bad the game development cycle went in Alone in the Dark....but once again Embracer CEO needs to be replaced ....like yesterday.

All of these companies need to lower their sales expectations. There are more games than ever to choose from and people only buy so many. They can't expect every game they make to sell millions and millions and millions of copies. They need to get their expectations straight because they are letting go all of their talent. Eventually these big companies like embracer will have no talent left. When that happens everything will be a AA title because all of the talent will have moved to or will have formed other development teams and companies.

So sad to see. Embracer are some of the worst investment types solely out to get a quick buck, and they're failing bad after overextending themselves so hard working devs are the ones who feel the brunt.

It's not even about if a studio is good any more as we've seen talented and successful studios get shuttered or face massive cuts as well as failing ones.

I thought that POS publisher just said they were done with cuts and shutdowns?

Unsurprising given the state the game was released in. I mean... a litany of fixes were deployed within the first few weeks, which to me says that the game should have been delayed at least a few weeks. You only get one chance to make a first impression after all. I'm sad that it failed, and for everyone that lost their jobs, but releasing busted games shouldn't be acceptable.