Irrational Games shutting down

Bioshock was awful IMO got bored an hour into first one and never bothered again, not really a sad loss after turning out the same game three times
 
flibby said:
Am I missing something here or is this just incredibly selfish? I mean laying 15 people off because he wants to work with a smaller team? Why not just hand the company to someone else who can take over Irrational Games with the staff structure intact then he can leave and do his own thing?
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Yes it is ....
The guys ego has got to him and hes bored. So he shuts down his entire studio to go play mickey mouse with Take 2.....and the media will lap it up and say hes a hero because hes all chummy with them. ****ing gross.

Hes a ****.

This sums it up nicely:
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flibby said:
Am I missing something here or is this just incredibly selfish? I mean laying 15 people off because he wants to work with a smaller team? Why not just hand the company to someone else who can take over Irrational Games with the staff structure intact then he can leave and do his own thing?
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You clearly missed something, as you haven't read the article properly.

However, you also don't understand how games development works (this is how it works).
 
I am a little gutted, what will happen to the Bioshock universe, I grew up playing...?

I wish I could feel the excitement out of a game again like the first time I stepped into rapture
 
I still expect there to be more Bioshock. Despite AWPC's rants about Infinite, it was still a good game. People need to stop judging games on one they remember with extreme nostalgia. Sure Bioshock Infinite wasn't as good as the first, but it's still a good game in its own right.
 
Extreme is definitely the word, Bioshock always will remain as number one in my heart a benchmark for any similar game I play
 
Sad news, the Bioshock trilogy rank very highly in my all time favourite games. Sad about the guys losing their jobs, but very cool that Levine is doing everything he can to help them find more work. More than a lot of other developers do.

Looking forward to what he, Take Two and the lucky 15 produce in the future.
 
I'd be okay with them never touching Bioshock again after Infinite, that game was one of the best FPS games I've ever played.
 
Even after the raging success that was BS Infinite? Do publishers really take that much money? They must go full on Halal with their developers, 2k at least.
 
Yeah seems they hit a brick wall, they are doing the right thing. Bioshock 1 was amazing 2 was ok and infinite was shocking, time to shake things up a bit. Which means some people need to lose jobs as they were going in a rubbish direction. Welcome to the real world
 
Witcher1979 said:
Yeah seems they hit a brick wall, they are doing the right thing. Bioshock 1 was amazing 2 was ok and infinite was shocking, time to shake things up a bit. Which means some people need to lose jobs as they were going in a rubbish direction. Welcome to the real world
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Rating Bioshock 2 higher than infinite?

Lol.
 
Witcher1979 said:
Yeah seems they hit a brick wall, they are doing the right thing. Bioshock 1 was amazing 2 was ok and infinite was shocking, time to shake things up a bit. Which means some people need to lose jobs as they were going in a rubbish direction. Welcome to the real world
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Number 2 was awful, and Infinite was brilliant. What are you smoking?
 
Could they not have split the studio in to a few separate design teams and had them to work on different games rather than lay almost everyone off?
 
spoffle said:
You clearly missed something, as you haven't read the article properly.

However, you also don't understand how games development works (this is how it works).
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Condescending much? What is this "something" then? Games teams are sometimes dissolved after working on a project and moved to other projects assuming their contract wasn't purely for that period. In this circumstance though, he's restructuring the company and laying lots of people off in the process (as someone else pointed out he's only keeping 15, so he'd probably laying off more) because he wants to work with a smaller team. Sounds pretty selfish to me.

FoxEye said:
Also, when you're a creative endeavour, there's nothing worse than having to create just to pay the bills. It leads to compromise.
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So he makes that decision for the whole company bar 15 people? I bet lots of those people weren't suffering from compromise or even needed an abundance of creativity in their jobs?
 
I honestly don't see why people think he's selfish.
It's his own business and he's free to do what he wants with it, it's no less selfish than any other business that has a restructure and lays off jobs.

Do people live in a different world? As In reality this happens all the time.
 
flibby said:
So he makes that decision for the whole company bar 15 people? I bet lots of those people weren't suffering from compromise or even needed an abundance of creativity in their jobs?
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Since Irrational is owned by 2K he must have their blessing to do this.

Otherwise they could remove him and put someone else in charge.

Anyhow, they are going to help the chaps who've lost their jobs find new ones. If they're good at what they do, they shouldn't be unemployed for long.
 
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