ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Some people or studio really love Sony on an unhealthy level
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Deviation Games Has Shut Down - Ex CoD Devs, Were Creating New IP for PlayStation
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Some people or studio really love Sony on an unhealthy level
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Abandoned got a dedicated teaser/trailer app for PS5, I don't think even any of their first party app has ever had so far.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Looks like GAAS is back on the menu boys!
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blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Could it be too much gas?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
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Original PS Blog entry for when their partnership and new IP was announced
Deviation Games signs with PlayStation to develop a new original IP
A note from the development team on building something new.
blog.playstation.com
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splattered
Member
Daaamn.
Guess it isn't needed now that Ms and Sony struck a deal to keep cod on Playstation for the time being? What i really want from Sony is something different like a new warhawk or twisted metal.
Guess it isn't needed now that Ms and Sony struck a deal to keep cod on Playstation for the time being? What i really want from Sony is something different like a new warhawk or twisted metal.
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Varteras
Gold Member
Apparently Blundell and some others left before shit hit the fan and joined PlayStation, but nobody knows where within the company and what they're doing. When they laid off that many people last year, I think most of us knew this was coming.
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
What a waste.
James Sawyer Ford
Gold Member
More than likely, the project wasn't doing well.
One of the Co-Founders left before Playstation backed out. Startups have risks, and if the Studio wasn't doing what they had hoped, time to cut your losses and move on. It's part of the risk with venture capital.
The other studio, Firewalk, is apparently doing just fine with Concord. It's a major release for Sony still.
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
always a good sign when the founder leaves before you ship a game and youre doing shit like this ^
Varteras
Gold Member
always a good sign when the founder leaves before you ship a game and youre doing shit like this ^
On the bright side, now they can do this all day without worrying about making a game at all.
Oddvintagechap
Member
I thought this was known for a while.
Varteras
Gold Member
The game being canceled was highly suspected a year ago when big layoffs hit. The studio wasn't expected to survive. This just confirms that expectation.
Barakov
Member
Maybe try to develop a game instead of playing tug-o-war?
always a good sign when the founder leaves before you ship a game and youre doing shit like this ^
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Wait, wait, wait, wait... I thought they were already dead.....
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
always a good sign when the founder leaves before you ship a game and youre doing shit like this ^
Damn you called it
Angry_Megalodon
Member
There has been poor quality control at PS Studios. Some of the acquisitions are questionable, to say the least.
The current "videogames crisis" seems to impact a certain type of Western studio:
- New age offices.
- Outdoor activities.
- Lots of breakfasts and lunches. These people are always hungry.
- A nice variety of hairdos, colors and pronouns.
Deviation, Half Molecule, Heaven, Pixel...etc. I can't tell one from the other. To me, they are like Ubisoft's NPCs and get recycled as such.
The current "videogames crisis" seems to impact a certain type of Western studio:
- New age offices.
- Outdoor activities.
- Lots of breakfasts and lunches. These people are always hungry.
- A nice variety of hairdos, colors and pronouns.
Deviation, Half Molecule, Heaven, Pixel...etc. I can't tell one from the other. To me, they are like Ubisoft's NPCs and get recycled as such.
This isn’t a PS studio tho.
Puscifer
Member
We all played golf and left early last week, is the idea of company outings and remote work so foreign to people on GAF that seeing people with them triggers something?
always a good sign when the founder leaves before you ship a game and youre doing shit like this ^
Varteras
Gold Member
I mean the game was canceled, huge layoffs hit, now the studio is closed, and this was all they ever had to show for existing. A website that almost felt like a brochure for outdoor activities. Kinda makes one wonder how things were ran.
Clintizzle
Lord of Edge.
#Organic
Kerotan
Member
Time to set up more studios in eastern Europe. Let the freaks rot.
This studio isn't needed anymore now that COD is guaranteed on playstation.
Varteras
Gold Member
Well it's dead now. Only organic things truly die. Soooo... yes?
nial
Gold Member
Not owned by Sony.
TransTrender
Gold Member
Without more context there's nothing wrong with this.
always a good sign when the founder leaves before you ship a game and youre doing shit like this ^
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Their website is still up.
always a good sign when the founder leaves before you ship a game and youre doing shit like this ^
It looks like they partied and making games is the last thing on their mind. They even got a swag shop selling Deviation branded soccer jerseys. Sure, proceeds say it goes to charity, but it looks like they put a lot of effort into their website.
They even got Deviation branded tshirts and baseball cap too if youre interested. lol
Deviation Games – Let's build a community together.
www.deviationgames.com
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Maybe if they weren't obsessed with outdoor tug of war every day they might have been spared. Alas, their obsession with outside tug of war did them in. Constantly tug of warring when they should have been programming...
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Not a good look
always a good sign when the founder leaves before you ship a game and youre doing shit like this ^
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
To be fair they did release something. Tshirts and baseball caps.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
This isn't fair.
Varteras
Gold Member
At Deviation, we dance. We bowl. We watch movies. We dress and look like douches. We don't actually end up making anything!
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Amazingly, googling it says they got up and running in 2020, and in spring 2023 Sony canceled their game. In the fall there was already rumours they shut down, but somehow they lingered around until now as those Linkedin profiles says they closed last Friday.
Personally, I dont think they got anything up and running. The execs probably pitched some FPS ideas on a storyboard, Sony greenlit it as as they time they were desperate for a COD counter game to partner with. The deal fell through, and so does the game.
I wouldnt be surprised if they had basically nothing concrete even programmed yet. It probably was in some kind of pre-alpha alpha alpha mode.
Varteras
Gold Member
Five years ago I would have called you crazy. But we've had more than enough stories in that time. 5-year pre-production disasters. Years-long development hells where a game got constantly changed because none of the leads could land on a clear vision together. Absolutely awful management by people who should have never been in charge of anything. If someone like Schreier, Henderson, Grubb, or Robinson drop news that Deviation never even really got started, I wouldn't doubt a word.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
In tech, there's a lot of money floating around. All it takes is a studio with a great idea to find a big corporate partner even if they got nothing concrete to show.
Other industries arent like this. If you had a great chocolate bar idea with nothing to show but a webpage and some napkin ideas, Nestle and Hershey isn't going to partner with you. Maybe give it a bunch of years proving you got some sales, a big upward trend and know what youre doing and they partner up or even buy you out, with the goal their huge scope of manufacturing, marketing and distribution points of sale can expand it from 300 stores to 300,000 around the world.
But in no way are they going to waste their time on a company that seems more interested in bowling and 3D movie night than proving they got some footing selling chocolate.
Varteras
Gold Member
The merch got me more than anything else. Takes a special kind of cockiness and self-absorption to be a no-name company that hasn't released even a concept to the public and ask them to buy apparel with your logo. Your two claims to fame were being a partner to PlayStation and Jason Blundell being a founder. Who left your third-rate, after school activities, Dutch oven of a company when it probably became clear to him that his new baby was loaded with ambitionless rejects. I may be too harsh here, but I don't care.
Mr Moose
Member
Holy shit I just checked out their site... I am glad they got shut down, that's all I can say really lol.To be fair they did release something. Tshirts and baseball caps.
Half of it was fake flash crap with horrible font.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
If the company I worked for was on the verge of going belly up I can guarantee you we wouldn’t be frolicking in the park
nial
Gold Member
You were fine up until this part. In June 2021? Really?
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I dont think it's a good idea for any company on shaky ground with zero products promoting to the masses their employees spend more time bowling, watching movies or tug of war.
The only thing on their website that even resembles productivity are some office cubes. And they havent even been used yet. A bunch of monitors coiled up and not hooked up to anything.
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Honestly, I thought the studio was done after big round of layoffs last year and founders seemingly leaving the company for SIE. So no surprises here.