MechBFP

This would be like desecrating a corpse.

Reasonable prediction given currently known facts.

All good things comes to and end.

But it doesn't. It is pretty self explanatory that they aren't going to hire more people for a location after firing a bunch of people from said location for downsizing reasons.

Well obviously, why would they hire anymore people for that location after downsizing?

It is still here: https://careers.take2games.com/our-offices

That is more than likely the reality of the situation. For sure it is obvious that those cutting costs don’t give a excrements about the impacts down the line.

It is going to be a very long wait. I personally won’t believe the game isn’t dead until I see a 0.x release that comes in anytime mid July or later with follow up patches.

If you know anything about human attention span you have your answer.

Hey I didn't know this. Thanks for the heads up.

If someone is a fanboy they already bought it. Perhaps you meant "consumers"?

Maybe that day job he mentioned? Yeesh.

I laughed at this pretty hard. Apparently not being an ass is considered as not being critical.

Yes sir.

That seems like an unusual amount of optimism. I’m intrigued.

Eh? Like 90% of this forum is criticizing the game. You probably just didn’t notice because it wasn’t laden with curse words and personal attacks.

Given all the little details I have seen… *sigh*. Not holding my breath for good news.

Hard to say, technically that is located in Kirkland, which is a suburb of Seattle.

Given that they have acknowledged that people are (or rather were, given the news) working on a 2nd unannounced game, seems more likely to be related to that.

That office closure is certainly of interest although doesn't mean anything in and of itself unless someone here has actual knowledge of all their work locations in Seattle.

Telemetry and service data sounds very much like launcher type stuff.

Not to mention it allows them to rotate people out. I.E. have half the team working on bugs for modules they worked on, while the other half develops new features. Then they swap and the people who worked on the new features are now bug squashing on the things they are familiar with while the previous bug squashers go and builds new things. Prevents burnout both mentally and creatively.

No, that is inefficient, ineffective, and unhelpful to the timeline of the entire project as a result.

Earlier in the thread I made a post saying I could go into a rather lengthy post about their communications to date, and this post essentially is that lengthy post, although being more polite about it than I probably would have been if I had wrote up something similar. I am getting quite impatient with the development so far and I am expecting lots of progress to made in relatively short order because they really haven’t done anything *directly* to reset that overall arching expectation since the game was announced. Now keep in mind I have enough experience in life to know that they are never going to be able to meet those expectations because there clearly was years worth of delays, but if they want the community to be perpetually liquided at them they are certainly accomplishing it by refusing to directly acknowledge that there were years worth of delays to this project.

Already in the game, but only usable with mods.