#endless rewrites and forced content inclusion and last minute content cuts etc

[thetwobosses]

Hearing about Volition's abrupt shuttering has left me in a weird empty, mourning mood tonight.

When I first started playing Saints Row: The Third almost exactly ten years ago, little would I know how much it'd end up changing my life. I found my best friends through Saints Row's Tumblr community, friends I keep up with daily even though all of us have since moved on to different fandoms. I got to know many other amazing people in the community, through all the shared art and headcanons and roleplays. And I got deeply invested in the creation and development of my OCs, these silly and badass and tragic imaginary people who shared my headspace almost every waking moment of my life for several years.

All this I got from a game series its studio had clearly poured their hearts and souls into, even through all the constant corporate meddling in the development processes over what must have been the last fifteen years, and now finally, a sudden death knell. Volition the studio is no more, its staff laid off without warning or fanfare. And it's just so unfair to everyone who'd worked on the games, and I hate that it's yet more proof (as if we didn't have enough already) that the current system of giant game publisher oligopolies gobbling up everyone they can get their hands on and then taking them behind the shed to be shot when they don't immediately return a double of their investment just shouldn't. fucking. exist.

It sucks. I don't have much more to say except that I hope the now ex-Volition game developers all end up finding new and maybe even better employers soon. And just maybe there'll be some new studio rising from the core of the Volition creative team. We'll see.

#saints row #the state of game development is bleak indeed #like what was the POINT of buying up Volition from if they were just gonna shut them down #Gearbox/Embracer didn't even get the Saints Row license; that's still with Deep Silver apparently #not that DS also didn't suck as a publisher #as did THQ before them... #pretty much the majority of the big flaws of the SR games throughout the series can be blamed on corporate meddling #endless rewrites and forced content inclusion and last minute content cuts etc #Volition didn't fucking deserve this treatment. Not back then and especially not now #At least we'll all have the memories...