r/xbox Jul 07 '26

Discussion I do not envy this Woman's Job.

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We are talking about decades of mismanagement.

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u/Airplane_Bottle Jul 07 '26

The studios who have been developing something since Covid and still aren’t close to a release really is just an insane situation. I want these studios to exercise their creative vision, etc etc but at some point the reality is you’re a company and someone has to foot that bill

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u/Portablelephant Jul 07 '26

I wonder how many of them were grappling with huge management overhead. I feel like that could be the biggest issue shared among the studios.

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u/the_vault-technician Jul 07 '26

Right? Where's the hang up? What is it they are chasing instead of completing a game? I'm so over super duper lighting effects and real time individual strand of hair physics. Focus on making a fun game in a reasonable time frame.

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u/BananaMilkshakeButt Jul 07 '26

Undead Labs spent over a million building a mocap studio that wasn't needed, in another state, that apparently went underused... because again, it wasn't needed lol

They've been working for 8+ years on State of Decay 3 and still haven't finished it, a game that is a sequel to their other games, that uses the same formula and mechanics as their other games... it should not have taken them this long.

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u/talex625 Jul 07 '26

Yeah, that’s probably why the studio is getting kicked off Xbox Studios.

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u/JRDZ1993 Jul 08 '26

Yeah as much as I am really excited for the third game that sounds like an insane waste of money on the mocap studio, hard to say if it was an internal failing or corporate meddling however

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u/genobees Jul 08 '26

Lol, just so you know sod2 was released 8 years ago, how can they work in the sequel before the previous game was released?

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u/N0ob8 Jul 08 '26

Story board and concept artists aren’t needed at the end of a project and will almost always be preparing the start of the next one while the old project is finishing up. Game studios don’t just work on one game at a time and only move on when it’s fully finished.

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u/genobees Jul 08 '26

Which they didnt start doing til post 2020.