I argee with the article’s author that there’s reason to have some concerns about this.
Well that’s an ominous headline if ever I saw one.
Fuck that shit
There goes another good studio. RIP.
Just don’t overextend, Remedy. Stay in your niche you dumbasses. Stay unique. No one cares about Firebreak exactly because it is just some lame copycat bullshit.
Smells cooked to me.
RIP, thanks for the fun.
This is the TRUE American Nightmare. Rest in peace, Mr. Wake.
‘scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value’
Checks corpo-speak to English dictionary:
Lasting value is cash: Scale plan: First down, drastically, then bisect as many times as possible, then sell off the chunks to the highest bidders.
Well hopefully at least we’ll get one more good game out of them with Control 2. Maybe also the Max Payne remake. Hopefully they’re too far along for Mr. Shareholder Speak to fuck it up. But I guess we’ll see.
Into the ground, you say?
With AI and microtransactions you say!
Microtransactions are for pussies, macrotransactions are where it’s at
Remember when Konami was charging money for save slots? 😂 I can’t with this industry…
What the fuck, when was that?
Omg wtf, Konami used to be great back in the day. What a way to burn up all good will with your fans. I refuse to buy any of their new games after they burned the bridges back when they claimed to be getting out of gaming for good.
You can thank Hideki Hayakawa, who turned thier Digital Entertainment (home videogames) division into more casino type things, completed around when Hideo left:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL-BmDNuS7w
And now thier “Digital Entertainment” division is way more profitable: https://www.pcgamer.com/konami-just-had-its-best-ever-year-thanks-to-games-youve-never-heard-of/
Micro transaction is such a stupid pr spin of a term that just means regular transaction and I hate how well it’s caught on.
I’ve always preferred the term IAP (in-app purchase), especially since the transactions are anything but micro
Are their offices rent controlled?
Remedy already has lasting value in our hearts you out of touch dork!
same could have been said about Blizzard
All my dreams for Control 2 just went up in smoke
Control 2 should hopefully be fine as the CEO is new and it is scheduled for the first half of the year (They told investors 2026H1 and no one would lie to investors /s). Not so sure about anything else.
Barely enough time left to add some microtransactions
Control 2026. Control 2027. Control 2028
Nah. It’ll be an online hero shooter.
I never understood why Remedy got publicly traded.
“build lasting value”.
Oh no, he’s already using shareholder lingo
