[Shadowzone's findings on KSP2 history]

Just as I thought. Terribly mismanaged and underfunded by the people on the top with money to spare.

[Get the KSP IP to HarvesterR]

He left the project a year before the IP was acquired by T2. He had no word on what happened to the game for 5 years after his departure. He wasn't there when the game was becoming more and more complex with everything between 1.2 included and 1.12, two expansions, console edition etc. So saying that he with his tiny team could handle the behemoth of KSP2 is wishful thinking at best.

[What user has the most rep?]

8 hours ago, Vanamonde said:

Oh, I'm glad someone remembered how.  

Search→member search→don't type anything, just make sure all user groups are marked, should be by default→hit search→sort the results by what you want

For future reference 

Edit: the list seems to be about 3k short of what the stats tab says on the bottom of the forum. But eh it's probably good enough ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[Will it work with this configuration?]

That's a low tier pc from around 2015 by the looks of it. Expecting a game newer by 8 years to run on it is wishful thinking at best.

[What user has the most rep?]

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/search/?type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[38]=1&group[37]=1&group[15]=1&group[9]=1&group[4]=1&group[17]=1&group[8]=1&group[12]=1&group[20]=1&group[11]=1&group[3]=1&group[6]=1&group[23]=1&group[30]=1&group[28]=1&group[34]=1&group[25]=1&group[24]=1&group[43]=1&sortby=pp_reputation_points&sortdirection=desc

[When to expect news?]

What they will do to the franchise in the unlikely case of KSP2 falling off the bike?

Nothing, lol, as long as it produces money. And I bet KSP1 will for years to come.

 

[Take Two Interactive (Rockstar, 2K, Private Division) canceling games, ending projects and laying off 5% of its workforce]

Knowing Bethesda it would have more bugs than KSP1 and 2 combined.

[Take 2 earnings call documentation...]

2 hours ago, Skorj said:

laid everyone off

speculation

[Take Two Interactive (Rockstar, 2K, Private Division) canceling games, ending projects and laying off 5% of its workforce]

26 minutes ago, Jacke said:

with just a few transferred to PD.

We don't know how many aside of the Creative Director.

[Take Two Interactive (Rockstar, 2K, Private Division) canceling games, ending projects and laying off 5% of its workforce]

16 minutes ago, K^2 said:

It's worth noting that KSP2 was never listed as an independent title. Here's a snippet from Q3 2023 report.

Immersive Core still has 22 titles in flight in the latest report. KSP2 is no longer one of the bullet points, but clearly, neither are most of these 22 titles for the FY 2025-2027. Only the ones with highest impact or impending releases are listed.

We have it confirmed now that KSP2 is not planned for FY2025. It was obvious from the rate at which EA progressed even if Intercept didn't close, however. So there is really no news on what they're planning to do with KSP2. Whether it's one of the 7 titles they've said were canceled, or if it's on ice pending transfer to another studio at some point in the future. Both of these options are still possible given the report.

Uhh. This section of the report lists only current and future FY releases (read as: anything later than April 1st). Since KSP2 officially launched in FY2024, it's not listed here.

[Take 2 earnings call documentation...]

10 minutes ago, TickleMyMary said:

Do you mean this from a totally separate document? If so, this means sod all.

What do you mean separate document? All of them are an integral part of today's financial report.

[Take 2 earnings call documentation...]

2 minutes ago, TickleMyMary said:

Nothing of what you've said is in the documentation released with the earnings call, if you can point me to where it does say that I'd be greatful.

There are like 4 different presentations in there, it's in one of them.

[Take Two Interactive (Rockstar, 2K, Private Division) canceling games, ending projects and laying off 5% of its workforce]

nuff said.

[Take 2 earnings call documentation...]

We know for sure some people will be leaving the project - at the very least what, 4 people so far? We know nothing about the rest. So once again, a reduction is imminent. Studio closure happens. Production continues. What we don't know, is under what label and with what workforce. Everything beyond the above is speculation.

[Take 2 earnings call documentation...]

You weren't looking hard enough. There is mention of KSP, in fact it's still listed  - compared to february report - as key product in PD label. The only thing that has changed in fact, is a single paragraph

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Private Division owns and operates Intercept Games, based in Seattle, a team charged with working on games set in the Kerbal universe

that is missing from today's report. So sign of cancellation or anything else. By the looks of it, it's still very much alive.

[Is there any hope for KSP2?]

Despite the layoffs of unknown size, and overall panic, there are no signs of work stoppage. Work slowdown, yes, halt, no.

[Where is Nate?]

4 hours ago, K^2 said:

I'm sure ST hired additional people to work on the contract for KSP2, but even most generously, you don't look at that team and say, "Yeah, they're going to build a AAA game from scratch in under 3 years."

I think that was (is?) the biggest problem in this whole endaevour. KSP1 was an indie game in pretty much every way. Independent studio, small team, niche genre, not much of a budget, a novelty on the market, but loved by those who were interested.

Then T2 took over the IP, came up with an idea for a sequel that would make money, and... still treated it like an indie title. Despite the fact that the scope proposed by our very Creative Director could beat some blockbuster AAA games. But it still got a small team, *some* budget and a short time to develop all those ideas.

 

In any case, we will probably know what happens next in 22 hours or so.

[Kerbal Space Program 2 (Version 0.3.0 and Version 1.0.0) Hype Train!]

It really doesn't. For the 1528th time, no mod was able to bump up the heightmap resolution and that's where KSP1 will always lose.

[Where is Nate?]

Why all of a sudden people started implying that ST and IG around 2020/21 were different people?

Reportedly, the whole shadyness of that move was that people got a message from the overseers at T2, you move to new studio or we're terminating the contract. A a chunk of people did move because, wow, work is better than no work.

Just check the old feature videos, most of the faces present there remained the same for a long time since 2019. Of course that was only a handful of people but I bet lead devs who remained wouldn't want to get their work thrown away.

[Something you need to read.]

 

 

[Happy Mothers Day]

Not a Mother's day until 26th.

[Can we please get an update as to what’s going on?]

8 minutes ago, Schaufel said:

Thrust totally destroyed

An issue with the turbopump? Leak in the tank? We can troubleshoot what caused it.

[Where is Nate?]

2 hours ago, K^2 said:

Every publisher out there that took out credits is bleeding, and that's basically everyone

fast forward to financial report and announcement of record profits.

Please, publishers are greedy pricks. Many of the most successful titles I play(ed) were developed and released without a publisher.

Would KSP2 exist without a publisher? Probably not. But would it work better if the publisher assigned bigger budget from day one instead of giving more and more time? I think so.

[Can we please get an update as to what’s going on?]

4 hours ago, Flush Foot said:

But in reality, both scenarios are equally plausible at this time... IG is now Schrodinger's Studio

Steamdb shows updates to development branches as usual. So somebody is still doing something, they didn't all go home.

Unless that work continues already straight under PD, whatever they came up with.

[Can we please get an update as to what’s going on?]

Yes. Somehow some people failed to notice that in the midst of shouting and screaming.