Annapurna Video-Game Team Resigns, Leaving Partners Scrambling - Bloomberg
Megan Ellison-led firm sees staffers quit after spinoff talks fail.
No paywall link: https://archive.ph/5JFyZ
Wow. I've always trusted games published by Annapurna to be something exciting, new, and high quality. I'm devastated to hear that this publishing company is floundering.
I’ve always trusted games published by Annapurna to be something exciting, new, and high quality.
That didn't make them good either, though. Companies like them and Devolver Digital have had a bad habit of, for lack of a better term, using up developers and throwing them to the curb after. You'll notice that a lot of stuff they publish get marketed as though Annapurna made them, which ends up hiding the actual developers behind the curtain, thereby robbing them of fans and thus seriously hurting their long-term prospects.
Plus... in a digital age, publishers just seem to be the private insurance companies of the gaming world - they just extract profit from developers.
That's a great point. I suppose one could tell how healthy the relationship is between developer and publisher by looking at how many dev companies on the roster have created a second great game. Of course, that's tough even with a great publisher, so maybe that's not realistic.
Megan Ellison sounds like a terrible chip off the old block of Larry Ellison.
This sucks for all the developers and sucks for the people who resigned since Ellison obviously doesn't care about their concerns.
Didn't remedy just partner or start with them for the next control/alan wake game... Rip
Seems this will not impact Remedy
https://x.com/jasonschreier/status/1834359607621238858?t=OWvilLaQMitFlSvR_ooqLQ&s=19
I'm not sure this is going to directly affect that, because their deal talks mainly about financing for the Control game, and the other news is about movie adaptations, so probably it is going to be another team, lead by the newly re-hired Hector Sanchez, working on that...
But who knows, this kind of things are always hard to follow from the outside
