Jake Solomon head studio director (X-Com,Midnight Suns) of Firaxis departs
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Gizmo_Duck
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Studio Lead, Steve Martin also leaves
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Firaxis is done, this is why game sales are important.
Huge Firaxis shakeup sees XCOM director and studio head exit | VGC
The studio lead departs after more than 20 years at the studio…
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Firaxis is done, this is why game sales are important.
Damn, I never got around to Midnight Suns but heard that it unperformed...
The XCom reboot last gen and War of the Chosen were incredible games
The XCom reboot last gen and War of the Chosen were incredible games
As soon as i saw you had to deal with cards, all of my desire to play this game left. Just not a way i want to play games.
Gizmo_Duck
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I get that but i would wager there are alot of people that feel the same way as i do. If the game did not have the card mechanic i would of purchased it. There have been several games i have been interested that had card mechanics and that killed my interest.
Uh no so here's the thingStudio Lead, Steve Martin also leaves
Huge Firaxis shakeup sees XCOM director and studio head exit | VGC
The studio lead departs after more than 20 years at the studio…
Firaxis is done, this is why game sales are important.
Firaxis/Xcom was *always* at this crossroads. I said it in the beginning of the Marvel Midnight Suns thread - my biggest hesitation regarding that game was that it was clearly going to be their cashout point after Chimera/WoTC.
Xcom 3 was never happening because 2k wasn't going to stand up another tentpole like that when they just barely managed Xcom 2 (even though it was successful). Jake knew it. The Civ guys knew it and have been poaching guys for years too.
So look it like this. War of The Chosen dropped when?
The space for Xcom 3 has been there for ages and instead of pushing forward there, they aloted space for Chimera and one of the secondary leads to try their hand at a much smaller framework of a game within an existing universe/IP.
The writing was on the wall for a while regarding Jake and crew - which isn't bad because honestly they should've moved on to bigger and better things years ago. I don't know how Firaxis retained them as long as they did. The Marvel check was just transition money lol
I wonder if Midnight Suns sales performance caused this.
Asking them to maintain/provide DLC for year 2 or a year 3 is likely the trigger point, but even then I don't think Jake was sticking around.
He's at a point now where he could start his own studio fr
Overall Marvel has dropped the ball with damn near every Console Game they've tried since Disney took over
Wasn't aware of all that, thanks for the insight
Gizmo_Duck
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Overall Marvel has dropped the ball with damn near every Console Game they've tried since Disney took over
But how did they drop the ball when the game is good and reviewed well?
they don't get nearly enough heat for marvel v capcom infinite. scrapping that *and* stiff arming the community was some other shytOverall Marvel has dropped the ball with damn near every Console Game they've tried since Disney took over
its extremely unlikely that the card based stuff came from a studio that *never* did that previously
and its also a failure to understand the market
Gizmo_Duck
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Well then people can’t complain about “ubisoft” style games taking over (or AAA being stagnant) if they’re unwilling to give anything else a chance to succeed.
I felt the same way completely until one of my friends who also felt the same way ended up getting it and loving it. Then I bought it and it’s prob my 2022 GOTY. Still don’t like the idea of card games lol but it works really well in that game.