I think daddy let her play with this company so she doesn't ask for a position at Oracle where she can really do some damage. With that being said, I do have much respect for her father.
"We literally have nobody left to make our products, we are unaffected by this". Look.. i know in buisness it's considdered a bad move to admit your company or product isen't doing so hot, but maybe just staying silent on the matter would have been the better option here, rather than telling a lie as blatant as this one.
@ Whilst funny, they actually coulden't. None of them are skilled programmers, texture or 3D artists, animators, sound tech's, composers, or anything actually useful that you NEED to make a videogame. They are just activists who can critique your writing and character design, and suggest alternatives that will make your game sell even worse.
Imagine being that 0.1% that got ditched. I already know that person. She is the office karen who doesn't actually do anything, just walks around trying to tell people how to do their job, despite not knowing how to do their own job.
Mind blowing that everybody else has to leave and restart instead the freaks who literally destroying the companies. Shows how important it is keep them far far away.
Rebel Wolves, Archetype Entertainment and now this? I like where this is all going. It's about time that the talented and passionate people in the industry that break the shackles of AAA publishers who insist on forcing needless things like liveservices, microtransactions or DEI agendas on a game. As long as more of these new studios start popping up, I'm all for the formerly great studios staying on a course which will inevitably lead to their own demise.
Rebel might be competent. I hope that they are because I like their games premise. Sounds awesome. However I didn't enjoy reading on their website how committed they are to the mind virus.
To be fair, when your business is completely vapid and not actually doing anything - I could totally see how your entire workforce ceasing to exist would not even make the slightest difference in day to day operations.
FYI, Megan Ellison is the daughter of Larry Ellison - Founder of Orcale. Yea, she can afford to make all the mistakes she wants. Her father might as well be Bill Gates. Her being a "rich girl" is an understatement.
@@thronosstudios I have no idea. I think Daddy keep bailing her out and fund these failed companies so she doesn't ask for a position at Orcale - in which she can do some real damage.
Sorry this is a legitimate question. Is "cook" a good thing or a bad thing? When people do something cool Americans say "Let him cook" but then when something goes wrong they say its "cooked"?
If you're letting them cook, you're giving them space to continue "cooking up" whatever idea or thing they're doing, like cooking up a 5 star meal. But if something is cooked, you can imagine it as being burnt(out), like when you leave something in the oven too long. At least that's how I interpret it. I hope that helps a little. These phrases are wild. lol
R.i.p Annapurna... Flower was one of my favorite games of all time :'( Edit: this reminds me of what happened to Nix Hydra (also r.i.p). Iirc at first one of the lead artists left, then one of the lead writers left, then a whole bunch of other employees left, and after a few months Nix Hydra just fired everyone and their games got acquired by Dorian Inc, while Nix itself shut down. Idek if any of the og artists and writers are working at Dorian now since the games were left completely untouched and any unfinished stories remain unfinished till this very day. Wanna guess what kinda studio Nix Hydra was? "female-owned studio with female employees only" which later on became "female and queer-owned studio with female and queer employees only." Wanna guess why everyone started leaving one by one? "internal issues" and some of the artists got bullied by the fandom for "cultural appropriation" or some stvpid sh* t. How's the fandom like? The games all have "choose your pronouns" at the start, so they've attracted only the finest tumblrites and twitter tw* ts the internet has to offer. Mind you, this was way back in like 2022 before GG2 ever happened and DEI was exposed this much.
I just want to set the record straight here because some people don't seem understand. Annapurna is/was a publisher, NOT a developer. They didn't make Stray, Outer Wilds, or any of those games, the people who did made them work for different companies and still have their jobs. As a publisher, all Annapurna they did was handle promoting the games them and putting them up for sale.
Most unrelated... but I'm amazed a company hasn't made a true cat simulator game. Do they not use the internet? Feels like something like that would be easy money.
I was initially interested because I thought to myself imagine running around like mirrors edge but as a cat hunting and exploring. Sadly it was just a walking simulator with four legs instead of two. Completely overrated.
Ah~ Classic~ Dev companies only means of production, main their asset - is STAFF. When all staff lost - there is no company. It's basically bankrupt. Staff is MAIN asset of any dev company.
I’ve enjoyed KSP for many years. I’ve been hoping to get my hands on KSP2 for a long time as well. And Stray was a very enjoyable game. It’s refreshing to see a team who is unified to the point of walking out together when Megan totally withdrew from negotiations about the teams requests to totally separate Annapurna Interactive from the rest of Megan’s enterprise. Seeing what Annapurna is up to (adapting Alan Woke for TV?? 🤢,) I’m hoping the team refused to be part of the woke mentality and split for the love of the game!!
To be clear, its not pokemon, its just an action game gamefreak the devs of pokemon are working on, game freak has made other games then just pokemon. Nintendo is not gonna give out pokemon to a bunch of randoms. Hope this clarifys it for you lol.
I'm not sure how this gets constantly confused. ANNAPURNA DID NOT MAKE STRAY. They PUBLISHED stray. BlueTwelve Studio is the creator and developer of Stray. We don't know the level of control Annapurna had on the IP for future projects but I doubt BlueTwelve handed the entire rights over to the publisher. Stray will be fine.
Its not confused. I am aware they published stray. But considering blue twelve needed annapurna to actually publish the game, annapurnas self implosion absolutely hurts future projects that companies relying on them for publishing will have to worry for the time being while they replace an entire team of people. Unless of course they can manage to strike a deal with another publisher. Thanks
@@Hypnoticc Not saying you are confused. People in general. Just scroll your chat. After the Success of Stray I doubt BlueTwelve will struggle for a new publisher on a sequel. It gets easier to find bed mates when word gets out your good. Again we don't know what rights Annapurna had on sequel obligations, but searching around, Annapurna does not have BlueTwelve listed on the 14 current or future projects that are known to be under Annapurna. That to me is a good thing.
What if Devs used service like patreon or subscribe star etc, present they're games plot, mechanics and characters, all of that marked with a price tag for development This way only games that gamers want would be made.
Annapurna used to be one of my favorites because of stylized titles like The Pathless and Journey (both are among my "all-time favorites"). I'm sad to see them essentially "gone", but I hope I get to see more of their work under another name.
We are asking for long straight isometric or third person RPGs and adventures with realistic next gen visuals cinematic cutscenes quicktime events and straight romances and they give us cats, no more brainwashing we know what we want no preorders no purchases. Gaming is not killing of our precious unrepeatable free time it's about making it worthy
Why would you assume everybody knows about whatever scandal with Megan Ellison? I did the Google search as you suggested and I don't see anything scandalous with the whole Annapurna thing
People like games. Gamers will buy games. GOOD games. IF the owners/top/investors are Fing things up... then the talent will walk off and make their own instead.
studios dont make games, people do. if you like a game, take note of the people working on it, not the publisher or development studio... people move and get new jobs...
I don't think they are involved in the making of a new Pokemon Game. GameFreak is just more known to be the developer of Pokemon, so the article pointed that out, but they also have another devision for action rpg's and I think Annapurna is helping there. But that is still not bad.
I mean, as a Furry I didn't like the "game" Stray, it wasn't even a game more like a graphic novel. You had no choices to make, you had to gameplay elements, you couldn't even jump on demand so it was not a platformer. It was just "go to spot A" "congrats ok go to spot B" Stray is a bad story and a bad fake game. So it makes sense that the studio behind it fails.
This just seems to be the industry as a whole try to ignore as much of the obvious horrible stuff going on and just pretend like it's business as usual. Just ignore all the people leaving, or all the people being let go, nothing to see here. I don't care what a company says now put out a product that's good that's all that matters. Nobody wants to hear your sob story or how "mistakes were made" too bad so sad. Make a good product people will come lie to people's faces you get what's coming.
Honestly? I’m not even sad. Stray was an awful game, fite me. “It’s a game where you play as a cat, lol” No, you play as a cat shaped creature with the intelligence of a brainiac with foresight that has to go do literally every important thing ever. Have you ever MET a cat? They don’t do shit. That’s not a cat. That’s a dog in a cat body, driven with purpose and loyalty to the literal ends of the earth. Incredibly unimmersive, and you can’t even jump. You get to select where your avatar moves to, and an animation plays, and your avatar teleports at the end of the animation. No jumping happens.
I honestly don't care at all. I never bought or played that cat game. I had zero interest in a cat simulator. It's just funny to me how these companies can make a popular game, then immediately destroy their reputation.
What do you all make of this?
The woke are eating them/theyselves.
I think daddy let her play with this company so she doesn't ask for a position at Oracle where she can really do some damage. With that being said, I do have much respect for her father.
Reminds me of CDPR
I bet soon things like this will happen with different Ubisoft studios.
I think you've lost weight.....
"We are unaffected by our ENTIRE staff leaving."
So much copium, the ceo is gonna overdose.
"We literally have nobody left to make our products, we are unaffected by this".
Look.. i know in buisness it's considdered a bad move to admit your company or product isen't doing so hot, but maybe just staying silent on the matter would have been the better option here, rather than telling a lie as blatant as this one.
LOL this is like when the pirate crew mutinies and succeeds, what the Captain is saying before they have him "walk the plank."
@@Grobut81 they can hire all of SBI now
@ Whilst funny, they actually coulden't.
None of them are skilled programmers, texture or 3D artists, animators, sound tech's, composers, or anything actually useful that you NEED to make a videogame.
They are just activists who can critique your writing and character design, and suggest alternatives that will make your game sell even worse.
You know you fucked up when 99.9% of your employees just say "fuck this shit, I'm out."
Imagine being that 0.1% that got ditched. I already know that person. She is the office karen who doesn't actually do anything, just walks around trying to tell people how to do their job, despite not knowing how to do their own job.
Press F to meow.
F
F
F
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F for meow
And yeah, Ellisson's daughter can see more fire
Upon searching Megan Ellison, I didn't even have to read anything. You can just look at her picture, and you already know.
'walking icon of bankruptcy'
Yep, he's a very handsome woman 😁 and the hair...the haircut is one step down from a side shave
Why did you make me search it to. I already have bad vision, now I'm legally BLIND! Who's going to pay for my seeing eye dog now?!
@@Xidification 🤣🤣🤣🤣
She looks like someone with the wrong kind of autism. Rich parents take you far.
Stray was badass! Very different
Mind blowing that everybody else has to leave and restart instead the freaks who literally destroying the companies. Shows how important it is keep them far far away.
And by this we can see how much power they get from the "people in power"
Rebel Wolves, Archetype Entertainment and now this? I like where this is all going. It's about time that the talented and passionate people in the industry that break the shackles of AAA publishers who insist on forcing needless things like liveservices, microtransactions or DEI agendas on a game. As long as more of these new studios start popping up, I'm all for the formerly great studios staying on a course which will inevitably lead to their own demise.
Fun Dog Studios also look interesting with their ideas for games.
Rebel might be competent. I hope that they are because I like their games premise. Sounds awesome.
However I didn't enjoy reading on their website how committed they are to the mind virus.
we should wait at least 4 years for great games start popping up
Stray was fun yeah. And not too long. Good game.
To be fair, when your business is completely vapid and not actually doing anything - I could totally see how your entire workforce ceasing to exist would not even make the slightest difference in day to day operations.
Exactly like when Elon bought Twitter and fired everyone and nothing changed.
FYI, Megan Ellison is the daughter of Larry Ellison - Founder of Orcale. Yea, she can afford to make all the mistakes she wants. Her father might as well be Bill Gates. Her being a "rich girl" is an understatement.
Is that all there's to it or is there some kind of specific scandal related to annapurna?
Also Cali bred, raised and educated. Ofc also LGHDTV+. *THE* gilrboss archetype. lol
That thing is a girl? 😂 I thought it pronouns embracing they/them/he/him/her 🤣🤣
@@thronosstudios I have no idea. I think Daddy keep bailing her out and fund these failed companies so she doesn't ask for a position at Orcale - in which she can do some real damage.
Nice to see you brought back your original intro..
Easy win make a fun DEI free game, it will sell like wild fire.
We're all sick and tired of DEI, the bar has never been lower.
need people like those that walked out, i want passion again in gaming, sick of mediocre crap we get these days, soulless
copyright should never be owned by corporations, only by the people that create the product.
there will never be a stray 2 because of corpo shilling.
The other guy was just the janitor.
Id still think id get away from that political slop
Something must end for something new to start.
CEO must never interrupt creative decision for dumb reason.
CEO can do whatever they want. It's their company
Sorry this is a legitimate question. Is "cook" a good thing or a bad thing? When people do something cool Americans say "Let him cook" but then when something goes wrong they say its "cooked"?
It can be both. "Cooked" is bad. "Let him/me cook" means "let him keep doing what he's doing".
If you're letting them cook, you're giving them space to continue "cooking up" whatever idea or thing they're doing, like cooking up a 5 star meal. But if something is cooked, you can imagine it as being burnt(out), like when you leave something in the oven too long. At least that's how I interpret it. I hope that helps a little. These phrases are wild. lol
Bro, cooked with this question, but the answer bro... Is cooked.
"Done"
That's what it means here.
How do you not know the difference between 2 phrases just because of one word, used 2 different ways...
Stray was awesome
I enjoyed Stray I own it on pc and Xbox. Hopefully the Former Devs will have much success with their New Studio
R.i.p Annapurna... Flower was one of my favorite games of all time :'(
Edit: this reminds me of what happened to Nix Hydra (also r.i.p). Iirc at first one of the lead artists left, then one of the lead writers left, then a whole bunch of other employees left, and after a few months Nix Hydra just fired everyone and their games got acquired by Dorian Inc, while Nix itself shut down. Idek if any of the og artists and writers are working at Dorian now since the games were left completely untouched and any unfinished stories remain unfinished till this very day. Wanna guess what kinda studio Nix Hydra was? "female-owned studio with female employees only" which later on became "female and queer-owned studio with female and queer employees only." Wanna guess why everyone started leaving one by one? "internal issues" and some of the artists got bullied by the fandom for "cultural appropriation" or some stvpid sh* t. How's the fandom like? The games all have "choose your pronouns" at the start, so they've attracted only the finest tumblrites and twitter tw* ts the internet has to offer.
Mind you, this was way back in like 2022 before GG2 ever happened and DEI was exposed this much.
I just want to set the record straight here because some people don't seem understand. Annapurna is/was a publisher, NOT a developer. They didn't make Stray, Outer Wilds, or any of those games, the people who did made them work for different companies and still have their jobs. As a publisher, all Annapurna they did was handle promoting the games them and putting them up for sale.
Yes indeed, the developer is BlueTwelve Studio and it's going well.
They had really good taste in games so when it had an annapurna label you knew it was worth it.
Some pretty original games and innovative gameplay under that label for consoles and mobile. Looking forward to a follow up to this.
I love worker walkouts. I'm usually walking out alone. Still great though.
Wait, hold on, what?
Buckle up for safety.😊
Most unrelated... but I'm amazed a company hasn't made a true cat simulator game. Do they not use the internet? Feels like something like that would be easy money.
I thought with stray, playing as a cat, u could pretty much go and jump where u want.
But u could only jump where the game lets you.
I was initially interested because I thought to myself imagine running around like mirrors edge but as a cat hunting and exploring. Sadly it was just a walking simulator with four legs instead of two. Completely overrated.
I am shocked that this doesn't happen more often.
Ah~ Classic~
Dev companies only means of production, main their asset - is STAFF. When all staff lost - there is no company. It's basically bankrupt.
Staff is MAIN asset of any dev company.
This is staff with actual courage. This was a hostile takeover by the "plebs". Pretty awesome.
That's too bad, I really enjoyed Stray
Maybe a new publisher can take over for the sequel?
Shame. They had some good indie hits.
Reminds me of CDPR
Rip Stray 2 :(
So new studio, and new Ip, we will see
Great new/old intro Hypnotic!
Also keep churning those vids about gaming industry shenanigans.
You’re doing great job!
Westwood studios Blade Runner game was how I fell in love with video games...
I had no idea westwood did anything besides RTS games
Reminds me of street fighter the movie when everyone just left and the head guy comes back to just the cook only one still around
So they left the Elephant in the room instead of addressing it?
Watch the catlady comments. As a catbro, I will fight you.
Oh thank god you brought back the old intro I couldn’t take the depression intro lol
Stray kicks ass
"Annapurna is unaffected, because Daddy will buy more employees."
Sad because some of me favorite games were distributed by them : stray, I am dead, what happened to Edith Finch. I hope the new company can thrive.
Stray was very fun. 🐈
I’ve enjoyed KSP for many years. I’ve been hoping to get my hands on KSP2 for a long time as well. And Stray was a very enjoyable game.
It’s refreshing to see a team who is unified to the point of walking out together when Megan totally withdrew from negotiations about the teams requests to totally separate Annapurna Interactive from the rest of Megan’s enterprise. Seeing what Annapurna is up to (adapting Alan Woke for TV?? 🤢,) I’m hoping the team refused to be part of the woke mentality and split for the love of the game!!
To be clear, its not pokemon, its just an action game gamefreak the devs of pokemon are working on, game freak has made other games then just pokemon.
Nintendo is not gonna give out pokemon to a bunch of randoms.
Hope this clarifys it for you lol.
Aw shucks.
And game freak has yet to make a good game
I'm not sure how this gets constantly confused. ANNAPURNA DID NOT MAKE STRAY. They PUBLISHED stray. BlueTwelve Studio is the creator and developer of Stray. We don't know the level of control Annapurna had on the IP for future projects but I doubt BlueTwelve handed the entire rights over to the publisher. Stray will be fine.
Its not confused. I am aware they published stray. But considering blue twelve needed annapurna to actually publish the game, annapurnas self implosion absolutely hurts future projects that companies relying on them for publishing will have to worry for the time being while they replace an entire team of people. Unless of course they can manage to strike a deal with another publisher.
Thanks
@@Hypnoticc Not saying you are confused. People in general. Just scroll your chat. After the Success of Stray I doubt BlueTwelve will struggle for a new publisher on a sequel. It gets easier to find bed mates when word gets out your good. Again we don't know what rights Annapurna had on sequel obligations, but searching around, Annapurna does not have BlueTwelve listed on the 14 current or future projects that are known to be under Annapurna. That to me is a good thing.
"How the company was going to be run." Not ran.
I'm kind of surprised this hasn't happened sooner, and more often, really...
Ksp2 is atm abanonwear atm if these guys bought it they are already behind the 8 ball.
Does anyone remember the scandal about stray's ending? Probably the best form of outrage you could hope for.
I didn’t hear about it. What happened?
They were also publishing a good many indie titles
Ive been repping Sayonara Wildhearts since it came out
I would say it was greed that killed the studio.
So who actually owns the intellectual property? I know bluetwelve developed it but can they prevent annapurna from using it moving forward?
Annapurna owns it.
@ damn.
im so excited about gamefreak new ip i can barely stay awake
I got to say I like this new intro of yourse, the previouse one for some reason always made me become nauseous
Annapurna? I read that as annapurina😂
I'm actually neutral on this, never was fan neither knew them to keep track of anything I dislike
I am not interested in buying an AAA games Anymore
New intro? Cool
Old intro actually lol
@@Hypnoticcah ok, still looks awesome 😅
Oh no.
Anyway...
What if Devs used service like patreon or subscribe star etc, present they're games plot, mechanics and characters, all of that marked with a price tag for development
This way only games that gamers want would be made.
bruh that just sounds like crowdfunding like kickstarter
They need to shut this down
Annapurna used to be one of my favorites because of stylized titles like The Pathless and Journey (both are among my "all-time favorites").
I'm sad to see them essentially "gone", but I hope I get to see more of their work under another name.
We are asking for long straight isometric or third person RPGs and adventures with realistic next gen visuals cinematic cutscenes quicktime events and straight romances and they give us cats, no more brainwashing we know what we want no preorders no purchases. Gaming is not killing of our precious unrepeatable free time it's about making it worthy
I recently played Stray 😢
Press F to Trigger
So they tried to make their Devs go woke and they left, now DEI comes in
Why would you assume everybody knows about whatever scandal with Megan Ellison? I did the Google search as you suggested and I don't see anything scandalous with the whole Annapurna thing
Awesome
People like games. Gamers will buy games. GOOD games.
IF the owners/top/investors are Fing things up... then the talent will walk off and make their own instead.
Megan girlbossed the company into the ground.
studios dont make games, people do. if you like a game, take note of the people working on it, not the publisher or development studio... people move and get new jobs...
You understand Annapurna are just publishers, they never made a game... Stray was made in France by an indie studio
Based.
I don't think they are involved in the making of a new Pokemon Game. GameFreak is just more known to be the developer of Pokemon, so the article pointed that out, but they also have another devision for action rpg's and I think Annapurna is helping there. But that is still not bad.
2 to 1 the new gamefreak title is a 1 to 1 copy of palworld but called pokemon world.
And they are still charging money for their games!
Power move
dam wild hearts is a great game.
Does this mean we will get "Stray 2"?
I mean, as a Furry I didn't like the "game" Stray, it wasn't even a game more like a graphic novel. You had no choices to make, you had to gameplay elements, you couldn't even jump on demand so it was not a platformer.
It was just "go to spot A"
"congrats ok go to spot B"
Stray is a bad story and a bad fake game. So it makes sense that the studio behind it fails.
This just seems to be the industry as a whole try to ignore as much of the obvious horrible stuff going on and just pretend like it's business as usual.
Just ignore all the people leaving, or all the people being let go, nothing to see here. I don't care what a company says now put out a product that's good that's all that matters. Nobody wants to hear your sob story or how "mistakes were made" too bad so sad. Make a good product people will come lie to people's faces you get what's coming.
Megan Ellison and Elliot Page has something in common. Both look like little boys in suits.
i guess no stray 2...
Why? Annapurna didn't make Stray. BlueTwelve studio created Stray.
Maybe they shouldn't have made a walking simulator.
Don't really have any expectations from them
The action adventure Pokemon IP from gamefreaks, I will hold off my excitement and see how much wokeness will be instilled in it.
Is your avatar now on Ozempic??
Yes
Crazy how all it can take is one horrible individual to ruin an entire company.
Honestly?
I’m not even sad.
Stray was an awful game, fite me.
“It’s a game where you play as a cat, lol”
No, you play as a cat shaped creature with the intelligence of a brainiac with foresight that has to go do literally every important thing ever.
Have you ever MET a cat? They don’t do shit. That’s not a cat. That’s a dog in a cat body, driven with purpose and loyalty to the literal ends of the earth. Incredibly unimmersive, and you can’t even jump. You get to select where your avatar moves to, and an animation plays, and your avatar teleports at the end of the animation. No jumping happens.
I honestly don't care at all. I never bought or played that cat game. I had zero interest in a cat simulator. It's just funny to me how these companies can make a popular game, then immediately destroy their reputation.
Did Stray Flop in sales?
Daaaaaaaaaaaaannngggg
Never heard of this company. Shame to hear whats happened. Dont care for pokemon and there is only one Farming game and thats Farming Simulator!
Too bad, that game was great.
Never really had an interest in playing Stray