Nino van der MarkApr 24

The games industry is so strange. It does things that make no sense in any other business.

Take Gas Powered Games, the team behind Supreme Commander, which was a big hit. The expansion, Forged Alliance did very well, and then Supreme Commander 2 flopped and that was the end of them.

That's like Toyota releasing a new car model that people don't like, and all of a sudden they have to close shop entirely.

It seems every game studio is perpetually teetering on the brink of bankruptcy #gamedev

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@ninovandermark hm but on Wikipedia it says after that they release one more game and then we're acquired by wargaming for 5 years before dissolving 🤔 so it could be more a decision related to the parent company or also something that happened in that time.
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Show threadNino van der MarkApr 24

@Calined That's fair. Just went through the list and I conveniently forgot that they made Demigod after that, as well as Age of Empires online, both who appear to be well received.

I guess that makes it all the more strange though. Studio that made popular games shuts down for... reasons?

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@ninovandermark hm yeah true 🤔
Could also be bad management or not sustainable and they didn't downsize?
But might well be that the parent just got rid of them cause it was not a growing asset invenstor percentage wise? 🤔