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[Draugoth]

Take Two has closed Intercept Games, the developers of Kerbal Space Program 2 developers. The game is still in early access.

Layoffs start on June 28th, all 70 employees affected

Report via a Government letter: https://esd.wa.gov/about-employees/WARN

 

[Embearded]

Come the fuck on.
KSP is an one of a kind game and we are losing them?

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Man, This economy is catching up real fucking fast.

 

[Kacho]

lmao!!!!

What a disaster. The sequel project sounded fucked from the start with all the delays and behind the scenes drama. Now it's proper fucked. Glad I never bought it.

 

[ThisIsMyDog]

They released KSP 2 in 0.0001 alpha stage, what did they expect to happen lol.

 

[StueyDuck]

I mean they fucked up KSP2 royally, releasing in that state at that price was insane, which is kind of sad because the idea of KSP2 in theory was going to be awesome.

Co-op KSP with an interstellar "survival" persistent campaign, building space stations together managing logistics etc would have been so much fun. guess I'll just stick to space engineers, at least a new SE or at least a new engine is meant to be coming eventually, so will look forward to that.

 

[00_Zer0]

Is this the same team as the first game? I thought that game sold well. I seem to remember that they were an independent developer and I could have sworn Valve was interested in them or maybe they joined Valve for a time? It is a shame that indie devs get swallowed up by corporate AAA companies because when you are on their dime you better make some money for them or could be quickly on the chopping block.

 

[NeonDelta]

Man, This economy is catching up real fucking fast.

I seriously doubt this is anything to do with the economy, take 2 aren’t exactly strapped for cash. More like greedy execs

 

[StereoVsn]

Is this the same team as the first game? I thought that game sold well. I seem to remember that they were an independent developer and I could have sworn Valve was interested in them or maybe they joined Valve for a time? It is a shame that indie devs get swallowed up by corporate AAA companies because when you are on their dime you better make some money for them or could be quickly on the chopping block.

Yeah, the OG team got booted and the team put on the game f-d it up. So here we sre in the final act of this disaster.

 

[Tomi]

This happens when you love money even more than your momma

Disgrace

 

[Panajev2001a]

I seriously doubt this is anything to do with the economy, take 2 aren’t exactly strapped for cash. More like greedy execs

No way, it is hybrid working / remote work and the economy, Take 2 is this poor misunderstood company strapped for cash.

I mean, massive wasted of time at work everyone hate? Just peachy, well oiled business. Something like remote work employees like? Wait… they like something about their job? Cannot have that, that must be the reason we are not making 126x the revenue we are making right now, for sure.

/s.

 

[justiceiro]

It's incredible how much effort take two made to ruin the life of everyone involved in this franchise.

 

[darrylgorn]

And the game looked very promising too.

Shit.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

I thought the original team from KSP1 sold their IP and this team was made by Take 2 to cover the development of KSP2 after some shenanigans'.

Source...ish?

 

[Akuji]

I thought the original team from KSP1 sold their IP and this team was made by Take 2 to cover the development of KSP2 after some shenanigans'.

Source...ish?

if thats true, then nothing of value was lost.
was interested in KSP2 but only if good. doing it halfbaked with a random team just to milk the name wouldnt have been it anyway.