Flagship Studios closing down?

Steve Schulze

Anyone here affected by this?
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/39866/Flagship-Studios-Closure-Confirmed-All-Staff-Fired-All-I-P-Lost
I'm a little surprised by all this. I know Hellgate didn't sell as well as the company could have hoped for, but I thought it was doing ok in Asia.

My condolences to all of whom this has affected.

MoP

Unfortunate news
Good luck to everyone who has lost a job from this, I know there are plenty of studios hiring at the moment so hopefully it won't be too bad in the long run.

Tulkamir

Yea, I saw this as well. Very sad, I was looking forward to Mythos.

All the best to anyone who's affected by this.

And in similar news, a local Vancouver studio just shut down. Backbone vancouver is closing it's doors. Hope everyone there is alright (I know a few people who were there, they seem to be doing fine).

Feels like a lot of studios have been shutting down recently though.

firestarter

Rough as always =/
Perhaps even more disturbing is the venomous glee some gamers(?) are greeting this with.

low odor

Sad ....anyone out there looking ..we have multiple positions open here at Netdevil....pm me your info +apply via the site www.netdevil.com

Valkier

Really sucks to see those guys go. I heard that three of big guys at the top even starting paying people out of their pockets for a month to keep the studio going. Really sad to see such a talented group get taken down.

Deathead

This is very unfortunate. Hellgate: London was a awesome game.:(

ViPr

Hellgate London had great artwork but the movement mechanics of everything gave me a headache. if i was an artist on that game i would seriously beat up the programmers because they screwed it for everyone.

katzeimsack

ViPr wrote: »

Hellgate London had great artwork but the movement mechanics of everything gave me a headache. if i was an artist on that game i would seriously beat up the programmers because they screwed it for everyone.

Design?
if the designers want something to be crap. even the best code can't make it good..

Kovac

Damn, I really liked the direction Mythos was heading. I hope Hanbitsoft continues to keep up the servers on HG:L cause I haven't even gotten the time to play it yet and was really looking forward to giving it a whirl.

Best of luck to any Flagshippers, I'm sure the talent will get swooped up fast enough.

ebagg

Damn that's a shame, well I hope all employees can get back into new jobs quickly, some talented folks there.

Ajax

I hope Mythos keeps going, did a beta trade awhile back and it was actually showing a lot of promise already in the early stages.

Hey Justin :]
(<-Tim A)

neolith

Deathead wrote: »

This is very unfortunate. Hellgate: London was a awesome game.:(

I disagree. HG:L was one of most overhyped pieces of software ever. The game is just plain bad in design and execution in many aspects. And it's a shame that a lot of people had to lose their jobs because of that.

Xenobond

I actually liked the game. Was a subscriber for a couple months, but became too busy with work to keep it up. Buggy and was pretty hit/miss on a lot of the art, but was a pretty enjoyable Diablo-esque game.

Too bad about the studio closing down.

AstroZombie

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JacqueChoi

Sorry to hear this.

Terribly underrated game. Sad to see some good people get the sack.

SouL

http://hellgateguru.com/2008/07/hanbitsoft-flagship-is-selfish-and-irresponsible/