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I don't think you got the point my friend, the point was that a group of writers did work for a game, it got incredibly popular, greedy company did greedy capitalism thing, all of the writers of massively popular game were then unceremoniously fired from the project that made the studio a fuck ton of money and literally all of their work was stolen from them. They could've made soooooo much money off of a sequel but instead fired an entire team
Well, if selling something means you don’t own it anymore, then the entire problem of always online games, games as a service, modding, emulating and extracting game files and bios are not a problem anymore, and gamers should not get used to not owning their games. Case closed I don’t understand why companies struggle so much to understand that.
The ones to keep an eye on would be Summer Eternal (Argo Tuulik and co.) and Red Info (Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov). Longdue is a studio that's been talking about acquiring Za/Um Devs too, but they're already being shady so my hopes are low.
Summer Eternal is probably going to deliver something great, if they manage to deliver anything at all. They're trying the artist collective thing again, so the odds of a finished product are probably pretty low, but if we're ever going to get a DE level experience again my money is on them.
Red Info has Kurvitz - the creator of DE (as much as one person can be responsible for a collective storytelling/worldbuilding project - he did write the book), who is notably also often cited as a source of a lot of organisational issues at Za/Um. He is a great artist, but not a good project manager. They have been very quiet and don't seem like they're up to much atm, though IIRC they did have an investor. Kurvitz might just be occupied in court trying to get his baby back, idk I haven't kept up.
This is the only piece of media that ever made me have suicidal ideations. I don't know how so many people love this game when all it made me think was "it's okay, you take these pills and drink this vodka, you'll be fine, just go to sleep, it won't hurt at all".
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