The Shocking Death of Annapurna Interactive.
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Everyone quit Annapurna Interactive. Now, they've spoken to the press.
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IGN doing actual journalism? Must be chilly in hell.
Isn't hell already have a frozen pit called Cocytus already? Even if its just for one (two if you count the tongue) dude?
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If they are not doing that they are rigging votes in GOTY.
When this affect someone they are friends...
when they are not rigging GOTY i guess.
I'm gonna start calling the AAA games industry what it really is: the corporate games industry
AAA/AA games: MICROTRANSACTIONS AND TONS OF DLC.
You know what? I'll join you!
This is always what it's been lol. Realistically there's no firm definition of AAA games, but the only companies that produce them are big corporations. That's why we see lots of indie games reach similar quality standards but arent called AAA games.
And the journos are state-run media
@@themikead99 But that's not what they've been called. They've been called triple A and it would be refreshing if gaming sites and shows started calling them "corporate games" instead.
AAA has lost its meaning long time ago.
Lets start calling it the corporate games industry then
@@ytivarg5371 'The Corporate Games Industry' flows off the tongue surprisingly well.
We up to AAAA nowadays, baby
AAA has meaning only when applied to bonds, and AAA are the best.
It's lost it's meaning and has gained a new one Corporate gaming
I'd be surprised if this isn't a Second Wind type of situation, where everyone leaves to form a new team that does basically the same thing, just without the problematic leadership.
@@blueredingreen I think they went to the "problematic leadership" and said, let us leave or we'll leave. The problem is what the team that Left was doing, was giving out massive amounts of money as a publisher. I don't think they can do the same thing as a new company
Oof, does anyone wants to tell him about the Frost - Second Wind situation?
@@KarlHeinzRom that's ultimately a blip on their so far spotless record.
@@icravedeath.1200 but it does have problematic implications
@@Radicalbeast I don't disagree with that, I'm just saying if they properly learn from this fuck up then the chance of it happening again is lessened.
When comparing AAA to AA games think about batteries.
18650 master race... which is more or less indy.
I think it's apparent that the AAA game industry seems to be suffering the same fate of hollywood: soulless, and corporate and the general audience are finally starting to realize it's all a scam. I'm optimistic though as this means developer mentality will realize the efficiency and increased creative freedom that an indie studio brings, if Larian can do it, others can.
So, a nepo-exec that has a chip on their shoulder and no idea how to publish a game, grabbing control of the company through slimy tactics. Genuinely believing the force of their ambition and strategic genius could put everyone in line and drive the company to AAA greatness.
Seriously, she could have had the best of both worlds, if she just didn't two time the people she was in active negotiations with. For people who justify their worth by their decision making skills, a lot of them don't understand consequences.
She owns the whole company, why would she give up part of it by letting them create a joint venture?
I fully believe they all quit because they didn't want to deal with the parent company's interference, but at the end of the day, if the owner wants to interfere, that's their right, they're funding everything.
I wish these ppl with these ideals would let ppl do their job. They think way too highly of themselves. Her willigness to finance creative projects was a genuinely unique attribute most rich ppl don’t have. She lost the plot.
It's not that they don't understand consequences, it's just the classic "man I'm bad at math" meme.
@@ma.2089 She might've lost the plot, wouldn't be surprised if she's trying to one-up her brother, who's foray into games has been less than stellar in comparison.
@@Dnote_Z5 No one is disputing their rights, people are just pointing out they are abusing it and reap the consquences.
“She’s really gutsy with the billions of dollars her family earned and made me a bunch of money supporting my horrible movie idea. “
They obviously wanted to keep doing a wide range of creative indie and AA esque games, instead of getting completely monopolized by the AAA sandbag that is Remedy and all the culture creep that would have come with all the wannabe TV / movie stuff.
It's all on Megan, not Remedy.She started the movie branch, not them
@@SomnusLucisCaelum didn't mean to imply that, just state that both things are occurring in tandem. ie: a big AAA injection kinda necessitates consolidation of publishing resources with greater need for ROI and the movie / TV stuff would just completely overtake the staff's curatorial sensibilities.
That's not really remedy's fault, they could've always just said no.
Btw what do you mean AAA sandbag, from what I know remedy's solo games are nothing but utter bangers and they don't always sell that great.
@@SotNistI still don't see why you're putting the blame on remedy when Annapurna's horrendous mismanagement isn't their fault.
They could've just said no.
The original team left and they are hiring anyone and everyone just to fulfill the contractual obligations. This sounds like Annapurna will be making shovelwere of the "gollum" type for the foreseeable future.
Anpura are publishers not game developers. Man it is wild how you don't know the difference.
@@168original7 The thing is, there's *two* teams with that name. One of which is a game developer, the other the publisher. That's why it's confusing.
@@JetBalrog no they are both publishers, one of them is movies, the other one is games. The games side do not make the games themeselves they just publish indie games like stray. The people who walked out are the people who were hand picking games to publish.
@@168original7 Why are they are scrambling for an entire team to make Blade Runner then? Did you not watch the video? Publishers can and do have 1st and 2nd party dev teams as well as the more familiar 3rd party dev teams.
To answer my previous question: They are looking for a team because Blade Runner is an INTERNAL project as stated by Anna Purna Interactive's CURRENT job listings. Jeez SMH.
Damn. That's too bad. Are all their in progress projects dead now? Blade Runner game is dead? Hopefully someone can revive the projects like what happened with Walking Dead.
@@balsalmalberto8086 there was going to be a blade runner game!? Oh man I hope its made. I love those movies/genre soooo much
Whoa another nepobaby ruining a media company? Color me surprised.
shame, some of my fav games were published by annapurna
It was a shock to me
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Sounds like Megan Ellison turned into Caligula somewhere along the line there.
Turned into?
Or showed who she really was?
@@SimuLord she married a 🐎?!
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"The AVERAGE salary is 100 grand and OFTEN is more"
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So the annapurna devs and the teams associated all left and can now do their own thing? free of corpo bullshit? Sounds like a great deal for them to have walked away. Hope the people who left actually win big!
Cool. Now I can pirate their games without feeling guilty
Not really, they are juet a publishing firm, they don't make games 😂
Cool. Now I can shoplift without feeling guilty. 'Cuz theft is fine if you can reconcile it with your lack of morals.
@@eternaldarkness3139shoplifting is taking a physical thing. Downloading or pirating something does nothing but copy the original files. Nothing is lost. They really aren’t equivalent
@@eternaldarkness3139 "yOu wOulDn'T dOwNLoAd A cAr"
If you want to make a statement, don't undermine it by comparing the theft of physical goods (which are subject to physical scarcity) with digital media piracy.
@@eternaldarkness3139 There's a slight difference in piracy vs shoplifting. Shoplifting involves a physical product that the maker already put money into producing said product, piracy does not involve any monetary input from the maker (as piracy is only digital or 3rd party physical product). So piracy has no negative effect on the maker outside of missing out on a sale that may or may not have taken place in the first place. Many people who pirate wouldn't have bought the product regardless. Not saying piracy is right, but it isn't exactly theft by standard reasoning.
With all the selling out to the Epic Game Store, good.
Crap opinion
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@@treek10k 😱😱😱
If only all devs had this much integrity.
Can't buy food with integrity. Sounds like these people were paid enough to not worry in that way.
@@Qb3nsis Good point, since there's never any other jobs inside or outside the industry or the option to go independent. Silly me not going the corporate doormat route.
Big ups for them for going their own way but… I’d wager you don’t have a job and have 0 clue how the job market’s been, especially for tech.
@@aru5117 Nah, I got rich parents who pay all my bills and just can't stop sending me so much money, I burn it for fun. But back to reality, if you'd rather sell your soul, you're an accomplice in your own situation.
@@Qb3nsis that and they claimed they didn’t maks the decision lightly. the economy is so dire, it must’ve been dire for them to leave
deaths on Annapurna arent that shocking, has actually the highest fatality rate. ill see myself out
What is a baffler?
Someone who baffles?
Well the pegs in a Pachinko board are called Bafllers, because they confuse the movement of the marble.
@@fix0the0spade They baffle the movement of the marble*
@@Ebani Something that baffles you. Not necessarily a person but can be.
A miserable little pile of secrets!
Get to the POINT ALREADY...
you pad these videos way too much
Sad - I looked forward to a Stray 2 😢
There might still be a Stray 2. Stray was developed by BlueTwelve Studio. Annapurna Interactive was just the publisher.
Don't lose hope! Annapurna is the publisher, and I highly doubt BlueTwelve Studio will just kick the bucket.
It’s a shame, I really love Stray.
You can still love Stray. Annapurna didn’t make the game, they just published it. Stray was developed by BlueTwelve.
@@handsoaphandsoap oh.. thank you.
Since this "A" are used as "stars" like hotels....
What is a game with one A?
-- An asset flip? A text game?
And what if you have no A?????
-- An excel grid?
2D sprite based game maybe. Thise are basically grids of colors.
I strongly suspect the _people_ from Annapurna will all end up in the same, newly founded, entity.
Questionable. A publisher without capital is a hollow entity. Unless they can get someone to invest in them.
Was looking forward to the Blade Runner game
Bummer... Stray is an amazing game, truly novel idea.
This is actually a really tragic moment for all gamers.
That's a handsome woman. Lol
Taking risks risks money. Playing it safe risks money.
You can’t be sure ever. Making their expectations so high is a recipe for disaster. Failure will always happen. The need to constantly accrue money is insane. That’s capitalism I guess. Or maybe just her dad’s expectations.
Please tell me that you intended sarcasm on the quip about "Sausage Party, Seth Rogan arthouse classic", it wasn't obvious in the delivery.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but it sounds to me like the folk who left were going to get exactly what they wanted just under the name Verset instead of Annapurna, so what was even the problem?
I dont like stereotypes but some people just cant help themselves.
First time AAA game development caused a studio to implode prior to any game being released. Can we all agree now that AAA games are just not a healthy goal for the industry?
"Sausage Party, the Seth Rogan art house classic." hurk ugh that sentence should not exist.
If the entire team showed up to just about any investor asking for funding to reboot and continue on, it'd be crazy to turn that deal down. So I hope we will hear good news about the entire team soon.
Do you have to give the entire biography to get to the issue at Hand ?
Rethorical question, the answer is no, so get to the point.
I'm at a point where I will just simply avoid all AAA games.
That name sounds like they sell high end cat food, not publish games
I don’t think the Paramount deal is going to go through. It keeps getting soured over and over again.
I have a feeling that no one in the idie dev scene would take a contract with the new Annapurna unless it is the only publisher they could get.
Was really hoping stray would hit gamepass
mate, whenever you tilt your head away from your mic i cant hear shit.
You have got to be kitten me
At what point are you swapping out parts to fast for it to not be the ship of theseus?
You either die a hero, or live long enough to be the villain.
Another Nepobaby story...
Certainly a shock to me
अन्नपूर्णा !
RIP Outer Wilds
Yea nobody will care as long as the games are good. They're right when they say that they are just the money. From what I gathered, they formed the first group of people so why couldn't they form a second equally successful group?
Ppl aren’t as irreplaceable as u think. Esp in creative fields
audio very peaky
When nepo baby CEO ruined her company 😂....
@@ooze1982 If someone has competitive equestrian on their wiki page its a good litmus test for whether or not they earned what they have in life.
RIP chair
Very sad.
Okay
To be fair, Alan Wake has a true potential for a film in my opinion
Totally! Loved 2 & how they blended live action.
The government needs to step in and stop these evil game companies
That would be worse.
No one's a Boss if they/them doesn't have any employees, and being an employee is entirely voluntary.
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Cat's out of the bag now.
you win the internet for today
does ANY real human liked sausage party?
I know none.
So call it "arthouse classic" is kinda... cringe and in lockstep with legacy media
I think he was being sarcastic. It's not being seriously referred to as an an "art house classic".
My friend, this is a woosh situation ;)
That's the joke.
I liked it. So theres one!
Sausage party could have been brilliant but it just devolves into another stoner Seth Rogan movie where literally everything in the movie could have been the same if they weren't talking food.
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The Baldie Reacts!
I'd never heard of them, so I looked up which games were theirs. I haven't heard of any of their games either.
The circumstances around this collapse are certainly weird for any company.
Bro audio levels all over the place, not fun to listen to with headphone's. Can you move the mic to the center? Might help
Never heard of them.
Did you see Stray?
@@BellularNewsTo be honest never heard of that either.
I didn't know them but I already thought about buying stray.
Stray, Journey, Outer Wilds, The Death of Edith Finch.
They made really good, small games.
Every art-game indie snob's favorite publisher, known to almost nobody otherwise.
First
I think the employees were at fault on this one.
Basically, the big company got rugged hard 😂
@@super8mmo you commented before the video was 1 second old.
5th
The cat game was utter trash.
@@paytonestrada7746 why
you have the right to be wrong