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News Telltale Games has supposedly laid off the majority of staff

This last week or so has been a pretty sad time for video game labor, not that it's ever been a great time really
 
Irene said:
These layoff cases are starting to seriously worry me. This isn't sustainable.
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I think it’s more worrying that a significant portion of the US tech sector was only sustainable when interest rates were close to 0%

lemonfresh said:
are we heading to another industry crash damn
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If there’s a games crash it’s going to be a footnote on a wider tech crash.

That said, I don’t think we’ve heard of similar issues from the JP publishers

Suswave said:
again?! lmao
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Was popping in here to basically say this 😄
 
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Linkstrikesback said:
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't even realise telltale games rose from the grave at any point. I thought they died in 2018 and basically cancelled everything they were working on.
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OctoSplattack said:
I didn't even know they came back...
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iirc what happened basically is that they got partially saved to continue work on The Walking Dead: The Final Season. Then they re-announced The Wolf Among Us 2 just a few months after they finished work on The Walking Dead. It always seemed premature and they haven't released a game since 2019.
 
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Also unionzation couldn't really do much here. Unions can't stop layoffs from happening. They can provide a safety net for those who are laid off though
 
HockeyBird said:
Also seems like some of their games are exclusive to the EGS which certainly didn't help visibility
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Yeah, on the other hand, it's probably the deal that made it possible.

AngryAlchemist said:
iirc what happened basically is that they got partially saved to continue work on The Walking Dead: The Final Season. Then they re-announced The Wolf Among Us 2 just a few months after they finished work on The Walking Dead. It always seemed premature and they haven't released a game since 2019.
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They just finished releasing the fifth episode of The Expanse: A TellTale Series. These layoffs basically happened once those obligations wrapped.

Worth noting, however, that the only TellTale game that "new" TellTale has managed to release wasn't primarily developed by them.
 
oldpuck said:
Yeah, on the other hand, it's probably the deal that made it possible.


They just finished releasing the fifth episode of The Expanse: A TellTale Series. These layoffs basically happened once those obligations wrapped.

Worth noting, however, that the only TellTale game that "new" TellTale has managed to release wasn't primarily developed by them.
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Oh yeah, my bad. I looked up the Wikipedia article for Telltale Games games, but didn't realize it separate old Telltale and New Telltale since it still showed TWD Final Season and The Wolf Among Us 2 in the old Telltale section so I didn't see the extra column at the bottom
 
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lemonfresh said:
are we heading to another industry crash damn
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Considering the last "industry crash" was only in the US and only around console gaming?

Yes, we will have another isolated "crash" around some of the big AAA developers who're in too deep with these massive budget single player or gaas games that don't pay off. It's why you're seeing companies like Bethesda, ABK, and Bungie looking to be acquired, they see the cliff and are trying to secure their futures.

Gaming as a whole will continue to make a shit load of money for a lot of sectors.
 
BassForever said:
Considering the last "industry crash" was only in the US and only around console gaming?

Yes, we will have another isolated "crash" around some of the big AAA developers who're in too deep with these massive budget single player or gaas games that don't pay off. It's why you're seeing companies like Bethesda, ABK, and Bungie looking to be acquired, they see the cliff and are trying to secure their futures.

Gaming as a whole will continue to make a shit load of money for a lot of sectors.
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The last crash was on console gaming which was US centric due to Ataris dominance and Europe being a non factor and Japan didn't yet have Nintendo enter the market. It wasn't a geographic crash but a segment crash. PC/C64 gaming in the USA continued

A console crash today would be global but I don't think there is a crash, but unsustainable business practices are coming home to roost
 
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I really don't think this is a sign in particular of anything. Telltale was a failed gaming company, came back to the market attempting to make the exact same games and failed again. What a surprise?
 
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