Activision Launches Standalone Studio Elsewhere Entertainment to Focus on New ‘Genre-Defining AAA Franchise’
Activision Launches Standalone Studio Elsewhere Entertainment to Focus on New ‘Genre-Defining AAA Franchise’
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Great news!
well, let us see where this will be headed. the things they worked on previous seem promising
Incoming live service game
Is this going to be like the Perfect Dark reboot that was supposed to be an amazing massive budget project and we just haven’t heard anything about it since?
Let’s hope it’s not disbanded in a few months.
Narrative based sounds appealing. Curious to see what the put out in a decade
There seems to be a lot of veteran talent in this team from previously praised AAA games like The Witcher 3, The Last of Us, Cyberpunk and Uncharted.
This is great news and sounds really promising imo
They’ll join the CoD void sooner rather than later
BlaBlaBlaBlaBlaBlaBlaBla
How about make a good game?
Why not AAAA?
Holy fuck. Activision and not Call of Duty even tho I do love Call of Duty. I always thought the IW graphic engine is pretty good. I wonder if they will use that engine
Call of Duty is a juggernaut and sells out every year it is a cash cow for them. I know Reddit love to hate them.
**”US$30 billion since the first game came out 20 years ago”**
But strand-type is already a thing?
6 months they’ll all be working on COD
Yes, genre defining. Let me guess: live service multiplayer pvp games
I smell an overly ambitious game with no clear direction from management that gets wildly delayed, yet still somehow gets released in a too early, buggy, and lacking content state.
100k+ players day one, <20k after a month. Support gets largely pulled, and 3 years later the skeleton crew has created as much content as there should have been day one.
Just in time for the studio to announce their next overly ambitious game with no clear…..
I suspect it’ll involve a lot of AI bullshit.
That genre – dating sims. And it’s pay to win because realism!
It’s weird to me that there are indie games that are wildly successful made by like 1 or 3 people. Yet there are AAA major studios that take 7 years to make a poorly received game.
Is there a reason why AAA studios don’t make games with similar scope to indie games like Stardew Valley or Hollow Knight but pump them out in 1 to 2 years with a 50 person team? Why force people to make a game that the suits think will make money and instead just trust some passionate people on their ideas. The worst that can happen is you lose less money and time you already lose by making something like Suicide Squad
So people around here hate on Microsoft when they close studio and when they open one… Redditors at their finest I guess… haha
Pffsh, I won’t play anything less than AAAAA
Oh, well if its genre defying…
100% total bullshit. Activision doesn’t take risks on new anything. What they mean is “we’re going to try to combine all the most popular current trends into one game without any regard for anything other than selling as much as possible.” When they eventually fall short of their claim, they’ll blame the low paid team leads, and never mention the title again. Source: I used to work for Activision.
I bet it gets shut down before it ever publishes a single game.
Looking at the list of devs and what games they came from makes me think that is going to a massive dumpster fire
Advertising Hero, the action game where you need to write a review for every one of the ads that will appear in this game.
Following the pattern of evolution of their ‘games’ they will have moved past an fps all together it will be just a straight up cosmetics store where you can dress up an ‘agent’ like Polly Pocket with different overpriced cosmetic packages.
Gosh, if only they had a studio that was famous for making narrative games that they hadn’t recently closed.
Guessing it’s probably for the soulslike I heard they wanted to make, hardly gonna be genre defining if it’s not made by FromSoft lmao
Ok I’m going to be the one optimistic person just to change it up.
Maybe this was Microsoft telling them to free a bunch of former-absorbed developers from the CoD mines, so they can make real games again.
My prediction : monthly season pass, release half finished, life service shit, SBMM and worse grafics than cod4 had …
And overpriced skins , small DLCs behind another 40$ pay and it’ll be forgotten 2 months after release
Gamers: we want new stuff!
Microsoft: cool, we’re going to make new stuff.
Gamers: fuck your new stuff!
Xbox we have to lay off hundreds of workers from a studio that made a critically acclaimed game. Also Xbox oh Activition you want to create a owned studio yeah go right ahead!