Ninja theory staff must be F5ing their gmail a lot today…
BakedGoods
Games been in development for almost 10 years, last news on it from Oct 2024 said it was only now becoming playable. Tons of Rare OGs developing this game. Ouch.
MuptonBossman
Thank God Rare found a hit in Sea of Thieves, otherwise I fear they would’ve been shut down entirely.
susankeane
Thank you Xbox for buying up all the talent so you can squander their ability and then fire them.
AxlIsAShoto
No shit, they have been working on this for 10 years. RARE was already dead.
mrmivo
Sounds like this game had been in development hell for a while. Shame, though, I liked what little they had shown in the past.
No-Mushroom5934
Xbox as a brand has been suffering for a decade plus and actively burning down for the last few years. Their upcoming 3DO strategy isn’t going to help either.
Greenzombie04
Still not sure what this game was suppose to be.
EtheusRook
With us not even seeing a single solitary second of gameplay footage AFAIK. Does anyone even know what kind of game it was?
Iggy_Slayer
It’s kind of not surprising because they announced this game ages ago but then you think and there’s still quite a few games that xbox announced 4+ years ago that are still MIA like perfect dark, state of decay 3, contraband and fable. Hell fable we know was greenlit in mid 2017 and it’s still nowhere near ready to release…we haven’t even seen actual gameplay of it still!
Xbox’s mismanagement of studios in the last 10+ years is something books are going to be written about years from now.
Geeekaaay
While I cannot defend the layoffs at all, having a game stuck in development hell for 10 years is never a good sign….
RainbowDildo8008
Still waiting for this to happen to The Wolf Among Us 2 and Beyond Good and Evil 2…
Tolendario
microsoft buys up companies and then fires everybody, but lets cheer for the great value of gamepass
/spit
johnny-tiny-tits
Thankfully they weren’t working on the new Perfect Dark, so there’s a chance that still might actually come out.
Turkino
Yeah having the game stuck in development for 10 plus years is not good. Just shows either it had no clear direction to begin with OR people in charge were told to constantly change direction.
GooseSl4yer2003
Remember when people saw Nintendo’s decision not to acquire Rare, allowing Microsoft to buy them instead, as one of Nintendo’s biggest mistakes?
Fast forward over two decades, and Rare has done barely anything under Microsoft outside of Kinect and Sea of Thieves.
SuperNoFrendo
I just want a sequel to Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Viva pinata, and Conker. Rare sits on some of the best IPS
PsychoNicho
I see Rare and from one abandoned corner of my brain I hear…”Banjo-Three-ie…”
PsychosProphet
Can’t wait for Bethesda being hit with layoffs /s
-LittleRawr-
That sucks. The trailer looked so amazing, I loved everything about it. Guess we’re back to same-old shooter, live-service games and constant sequels. As good as this industry can be, it rarely rewards creativity.
cheesybreadlover
This is a shame. Rare deserves better than Microsoft.
Unplaceable_Accent
That’s right they’ve already bypassed Common and Uncommon, will be hitting Legendary next.
Broxigaro
Perhaps this isn’t the time or place but maybe now something can be done with Banjo-Kazooie? We’ve been waiting 25 years for more of the dynamic duo (not Nuts & Bolts)
TheWhooooBuddies
Memba Rare?
I memba.
Mageborn23
I mean it sucks, but 10 years cmon now
Notwhoyouknown
Of course one of those games I was super interested in, just like scalebound, forever lost to the ether.
Blaze2509
That game looked always not like a gane
GameMask
Isn’t this the game they admitted they didn’t even have a real concept for when it was announced?
Pitiful_Option_108
This reminds me of the game Scalebound. But the difference is the studio wasn’t making two games but one and failed to produce something.
MakaButterfly
Man these major acquisitions haven’t been great for MS
They actually made it worst
King_Artis
The layoffs are absolutely terrible
But being in production/development for a decade with nothing to show is also terrible.
Regardless I do hope those affected can find a new opportunity as soon as possible, something even better.
zurlocke
In the perfect timeline, Rare retained staff, and released Perfect Dark II in 2005, a direct sequel that explored the mystery of the Cetans, introduced world building for the Maians who see Joanna as a great hero to their race, and had a more desperate and unpredictable dataDyne corporation-turned-terrorist organization as a major antagonist faction.
😩
Wonder_Weenis
JFC Rare is the most zombified studio that ever existed.
just let it die in peace
Rahdical_
Why not just make sot 2?
ClubChaos
I hope not – this is one of the Microsoft games I was actually interested in.
Tigerpower77
The what now?
Lanky-Budget-4661
They should just release a bad game im sure nobody would complain
SpilledGG
So what I’m reading is now Rare will have more time to focus on games they *know* will sell well, like the next Viva Piñata.
aZombieDictator
Xbox has so much licenses and money yet they still seem fucked.
They really just need to license out properties they own and let other people make stuff.
KillTheZombie45
….welp another rare game bites the dust…
Slaughterfest
Rare hasn’t been allowed to do basically anything cool for almost 20 years outside of Sea of Thieves.
It’s so fucking sad to me, because they legit made half of my favorite childhood games. It frustrates me to no end how much they’ve been completely disrespected as a studio by Microsoft. Ughhhh
Liqhtxz
They can piss 69 billion up a wall to get COD on gamepass but can’t support these type of games which cost nothing in comparison.
Shattered_Disk4
Xbox bout to put on a blood bath today. This will likely not be the only studio that gets the axe
Maybe they will stop buying every studio under the sun trying to strike gold and finally get a “console selling IP” out of which ever studio they bought that week
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Ninja theory staff must be F5ing their gmail a lot today…
Games been in development for almost 10 years, last news on it from Oct 2024 said it was only now becoming playable. Tons of Rare OGs developing this game. Ouch.
Thank God Rare found a hit in Sea of Thieves, otherwise I fear they would’ve been shut down entirely.
Thank you Xbox for buying up all the talent so you can squander their ability and then fire them.
No shit, they have been working on this for 10 years. RARE was already dead.
Sounds like this game had been in development hell for a while. Shame, though, I liked what little they had shown in the past.
Xbox as a brand has been suffering for a decade plus and actively burning down for the last few years. Their upcoming 3DO strategy isn’t going to help either.
Still not sure what this game was suppose to be.
With us not even seeing a single solitary second of gameplay footage AFAIK. Does anyone even know what kind of game it was?
It’s kind of not surprising because they announced this game ages ago but then you think and there’s still quite a few games that xbox announced 4+ years ago that are still MIA like perfect dark, state of decay 3, contraband and fable. Hell fable we know was greenlit in mid 2017 and it’s still nowhere near ready to release…we haven’t even seen actual gameplay of it still!
Xbox’s mismanagement of studios in the last 10+ years is something books are going to be written about years from now.
While I cannot defend the layoffs at all, having a game stuck in development hell for 10 years is never a good sign….
Still waiting for this to happen to The Wolf Among Us 2 and Beyond Good and Evil 2…
microsoft buys up companies and then fires everybody, but lets cheer for the great value of gamepass
/spit
Thankfully they weren’t working on the new Perfect Dark, so there’s a chance that still might actually come out.
Yeah having the game stuck in development for 10 plus years is not good. Just shows either it had no clear direction to begin with OR people in charge were told to constantly change direction.
Remember when people saw Nintendo’s decision not to acquire Rare, allowing Microsoft to buy them instead, as one of Nintendo’s biggest mistakes?
Fast forward over two decades, and Rare has done barely anything under Microsoft outside of Kinect and Sea of Thieves.
I just want a sequel to Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Viva pinata, and Conker. Rare sits on some of the best IPS
I see Rare and from one abandoned corner of my brain I hear…”Banjo-Three-ie…”
Can’t wait for Bethesda being hit with layoffs /s
That sucks. The trailer looked so amazing, I loved everything about it. Guess we’re back to same-old shooter, live-service games and constant sequels. As good as this industry can be, it rarely rewards creativity.
This is a shame. Rare deserves better than Microsoft.
That’s right they’ve already bypassed Common and Uncommon, will be hitting Legendary next.
Perhaps this isn’t the time or place but maybe now something can be done with Banjo-Kazooie? We’ve been waiting 25 years for more of the dynamic duo (not Nuts & Bolts)
Memba Rare?
I memba.
I mean it sucks, but 10 years cmon now
Of course one of those games I was super interested in, just like scalebound, forever lost to the ether.
That game looked always not like a gane
Isn’t this the game they admitted they didn’t even have a real concept for when it was announced?
This reminds me of the game Scalebound. But the difference is the studio wasn’t making two games but one and failed to produce something.
Man these major acquisitions haven’t been great for MS
They actually made it worst
The layoffs are absolutely terrible
But being in production/development for a decade with nothing to show is also terrible.
Regardless I do hope those affected can find a new opportunity as soon as possible, something even better.
In the perfect timeline, Rare retained staff, and released Perfect Dark II in 2005, a direct sequel that explored the mystery of the Cetans, introduced world building for the Maians who see Joanna as a great hero to their race, and had a more desperate and unpredictable dataDyne corporation-turned-terrorist organization as a major antagonist faction.
😩
JFC Rare is the most zombified studio that ever existed.
just let it die in peace
Why not just make sot 2?
I hope not – this is one of the Microsoft games I was actually interested in.
The what now?
They should just release a bad game im sure nobody would complain
So what I’m reading is now Rare will have more time to focus on games they *know* will sell well, like the next Viva Piñata.
Xbox has so much licenses and money yet they still seem fucked.
They really just need to license out properties they own and let other people make stuff.
….welp another rare game bites the dust…
Rare hasn’t been allowed to do basically anything cool for almost 20 years outside of Sea of Thieves.
It’s so fucking sad to me, because they legit made half of my favorite childhood games. It frustrates me to no end how much they’ve been completely disrespected as a studio by Microsoft. Ughhhh
They can piss 69 billion up a wall to get COD on gamepass but can’t support these type of games which cost nothing in comparison.
Xbox bout to put on a blood bath today. This will likely not be the only studio that gets the axe
Maybe they will stop buying every studio under the sun trying to strike gold and finally get a “console selling IP” out of which ever studio they bought that week