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[SEGAvangelist]

Uh... this feels like the beginning of the end of gaming as we know it. So sudden.

 

[Coffee Dog]

what the holy fuck is this? Infinite was a big seller with a ton of mass appeal.

 

[The Wheel of Fortune]

Wow, what!? No way. I mean, Bioshock Infinite was a big disappointment, but I didn't want them to go under ;-;

 

[Grisby]

SWAT 5, nnnnnooooo.

:/ Hope everyone lands on their feet.

 

[Corleth the Fey]

Bye you guys. You made good games. Good luck in the future.

 

[LycanXIII]

Wasn't Infinite a success? Couldn't Ken just start a different team instead of shutting the whole thing down?

 

[Averon]

I'd imagine getting Bioshock Infinite released took a lot out of him. Not surprised he'd want to do smaller scale stuff.

 

[Xpliskin]

What the actual fuck ?

The bioshock devs are shutting down ?

How ?

EDIT: oh it's Ken Levine wanting to start fresh after infinite

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

Neogaf will be sure to track where all that talent ends up.

 

[eliza0224]

Whaaaaaaat!

 

[Chobel]

Shit...

 

[sixteen-bit]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=771110

 

[Lingitiz]

Wow...I wonder if this is a mandate from 2k or something Ken decided on his own.

 

[Fried Food]

Woah. Guess Ken is tired of spending years and years on a single game that might not even turn out well (I thought infinite was great)

Good on them for helping the layed off find work

 

[March of the Crabs]

Infinite kind of sucked anyway and reeked of trying to find a balance of mass market appeal (which makes sense, this is a business after all) while still trying to retain some sort of deeper meaning and narrative. Hopefully this smaller studio will help him go back to building more interesting and engrossing games. Huge bummer for all those laid off though. Hopefully everything works out for them.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

All but 15 people, how many people did Irrational just lay off?

 

[Opiate]

This seems reasonable. The Bioshock games simply were not popular enough to justify their production costs.

 

[bob page]

Noooo.... one of my favorite studios ever.

 

[TheRealTalker]

look at your BS infinite guys
and hug it

that is the last irrational game you will get

 

[Limit]

Infinite didn't sell up to expectations, it was never going to be sustainable

Proof?

 

[dave is ok]

What an irrational decision to make

 

[Gorillaz]

They were hanging on by a thread with Infinite. After seeing Ron jump ship back to Gears I figured it was only a matter of time

 

[Santiako]

Wow, completely unexpected :O

 

[jiminycracken]

Wow, this came out of nowhere.

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[AkuMifune]

Best of luck FartofWar. It would be selfish of me to hope you land somewhere you can podcast, so I just hope you land somewhere where you love what you do.

And podcast.

 

[Cow Goes Moo]

You could say they got raptured...

hahha oh god,

bad news for them, hope the employees find jobs soon

 

[Brinbe]

Waaaaaat

 

[Dark_castle]

Oh shit.

 

[Shalashaska]

Dang

 

[Nesotenso]

was infinite financially successful for Take-Two? if it was then why would you shut down the studio?

 

[bobbytkc]

Okay. Pretty mindblowing news.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

IIRC, Take Two didn't really tout BSI's numbers during their last quarterly report.

 

[zebwinz]

It is almost always hyperbole, but not in this case. My jaw just literally dropped. Best of luck to all those people affected.

 

[infinityBCRT]

I think this is kinda fucking stupid. why would they put so many people out of Jobs? Levine & 2K should have let Levine start a new studio and let Irrational do another game instead of laying off the majority of Irrational

 

[Jamie OD]

Fare thee well.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Infinite didn't sell up to expectations, it was never going to be sustainable

What the hell were the expectations for it? It sold over 4m units in four months.

 

[Zhao_Yun]

Wow, I didn't see that coming.

 

[Arkanius]

My mind is so full of "wat" that I can't think properly

 

[Levito]

Holy sweet fuck.

 

[LegoArmo]

I could cry.

 

[Mookie1515]

Completely unexpected. I can imagine we will still see 2K put out Bioshock under different teams though.

 

[TatteredHat]

Well, didn't see that one coming.

 

[Jaykay]

Didn't see this coming... wow.

 

[sixteen-bit]

This seems reasonable. The Bioshock games simply were not popular enough to justify their production costs.

Yeah, this doesn't come as a shock (no pun intended).

 

[Rozart]

What. No way. Seriously wth.

 

[Jay Fray]

Hopefully Ken starts up his own indie. The influence of big publishers have hurt his games IMO.

He's sticking with Take Two.

 

[Nuborn]

They aint shutting, just restructuring. All those people being let go though I really feel sorry for.

Levine on a new IP will be good, although the fruits of the labour won't be seen for a good while.

 

[Zia]

Jesus. : (

 

[elhav]

Damn that's rough.