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Daedalic Entertainment Ending Internal Development, Work on New Lord of the Rings Game Halted (www.ign.com)
submitted 1 year ago by simple@lemmy.world to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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Not a surprising outcome considering how this game went down

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[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

That's a shame. They've been around for a good while now and produced a good run of point and click style adventure games. They took the wrong path with Gollum though.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The point and click games by Daedalic (~~My Time at Portia~~, Memoria, Chains of Satinav) wer pretty great, yeah. What went wrong? :(

[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

They've had a rough run over the years with their previous majority holder running into financial issues and them getting sold to Nacon (Bigben Interactive) in 2022. I'm guessing there was a push internally to go big, and Gollum was the efforts of that. Also Nacon don't have a stellar record for doing well by developers, see: Frogwares and the Sherlock Holmes debacle.

[-] OneDimensionPrinter@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Daedalic didn't make Portia, was Pathea. I was surprised for a minute there. Loved that game and I knew Sandrock was in active EA for a while now. So, whew.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, I thought it was made by them, thanks for the correction.

[-] OneDimensionPrinter@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I definitely had to look it up lol

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Apparently I was thinking about Deponia :D

[-] qtie314@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

So sad all the devs lost their jobs thanks to awful management decissions, it should be the higher ups stepping down

[-] r_ffer23@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I get it, the game wasn't exactly a success. But isn't it a bit drastic to dismantle an entire division?

[-] _waffle_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think it’s a bit drastic too. If anything maybe the employees are being shuffled around to other dev studios?

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