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The Video Game Industry Failed Monolith Productions. (jacobin.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The closure of Monolith Productions, an innovative video game developer, shows what’s wrong with an industry in which game publishers have the ultimate power to shut down projects and fire workers.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

So why didn't the guys get back together. Make their own studio and release the game they were working on by themselves?

And how does a subdivision of a developer not know what their company is doing? I find it hard to believe honestly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

According to Jason Schreier, most did go on to form a new studio at EA.