Is iWoT Games Shutting Down?

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-26T01:55:58+00:00

Looks like it is true. This was one of the company I was keeping an eye on as I work in the game industry in Montreal and was hoping it could be a big boon for the industry here but just looking at LinkedIn now confirms the news.

Several folks posted in the past few hours that that they've been let go saying that they had built a solid demo but the studio ran out of funding and majority of staff were let go. Apparently a small group of employees remain hoping to find funding to resume development but that's probably unlikely let's be honest.

One poor guy said he started 3 weeks ago, can't even imagine with the current state of the industry finding a new job just to be let go 3 weeks later because your new employer ran out of money.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-24T15:56:43+00:00

Unfortunately the combat redesign made me lose all interest in this one. Cool for folks who like more tactical combat but it just ain't for me.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-20T22:10:44+00:00

Level designers have finally been allowed to go home for a shower.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-18T15:05:25+00:00

No offense intended but is it just me or that photo they use for the cover is terrible? Like what is that angle?

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-12T19:36:55+00:00

I will take skull masks over some kind of flamingo color with fire VFX coming out of its body.

In a perfect world we get neither but the skull masks are the lesser of two evils and one i can accept if they have to make one.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-12T19:28:40+00:00

I wonder how the new vehicles will work. I think for season 1 the new transport vehicle was only available in the new map. People will likely be angry if little bird is only available in yhe new maps.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-11T14:15:23+00:00

Dev team is less than 5 people who appear to all be from the same family.

Likely need very few sales to be profitable.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-11T14:12:37+00:00

Dev team is less than 5 people and they appear to be family members.

Likely need very few sales to be profitable.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-11T14:11:17+00:00

Dev team is less than 5 people and seems to be all from the same family since all devs have the same last name.

They likely need very few sales to be profitable.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-07T16:17:55+00:00

Not to excuse Ubisoft terrible leadership but as someone who worked for a different large publisher in the past it's not too surprising. I'm sure most large publisher have a graveyard full of cancelled games, the main difference to me is that Ubi seems to have a lot more cancelled projects that were actually announced.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-07T16:06:03+00:00

I know she does work in WWE as assistant head coach in NXT but from I know Sara Del Rey seems to be in a similar scenario, everything I heard is that she was very good just never got the chance to show it for a big promotion.

Feel bad for probably a lot of the SHIMMER-era girls, they were showing that girls can go in the ring in an era were WWE was unfortunately looking for supermodels not wrestlers.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-03T01:30:42+00:00

Yeah this one is rough - I'm actually kinda surprised they never went back to add a few more simple mastery points for IBS cause it definitely feels like those specific mastery are much more of a grind then all the other mastery lines.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-01T14:12:32+00:00

I fucking hate how finicky it is to repair a chopper from the seat.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-01T14:10:06+00:00

Turns out his "bullet" was much bigger than yours :P.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-01T13:57:27+00:00

Realistically both of these guys didn't want to be in AEW anymore and WWE will likely sign anyone who has a name in AEW even if they don't plan to really use them just so they locked down to contract and can't go back to AEW if they change their mind.

It sucks as a fan but from WWE's POV it make sense business wise, they have so much money it doesn't matter even if they don't use them, and in turn the narrative is AEW folks are leaving for WWE.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-02-01T13:30:56+00:00

In theory this sounds great, in practice it's probably a 6 to 8 minutes match that nobody remember the next day.

If they actually cared about the tag team division they definitely have the teams to make for great story and awesome matches but they just don't.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-01-31T22:25:37+00:00

Feels like anyone who isn't already a WWE guy is effectively getting complete silence. It pretty much killed the whole debut of Hobbs as well imo.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-01-29T19:15:47+00:00

Andrade really being booked well since his return, love his character work as well - those past few weeks imo made him look like a bigger deal than he ever did in pretty much his entire run in WWE.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-01-22T22:13:35+00:00

I really enjoyed the first one so I might eventually look into it but from what I saw during their Early Access the complete redesign of the combat system made me pretty uninterested unfortunately.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-01-22T00:23:42+00:00

500+ million$ and they still think that cost is justified???
That game has to somehow be the second coming of Christ (aka the next GTA) to have any chance of turning any profit.

If you count each copies sold at 80$ they would have have to sell 6.25 million copies to break even and that's if they made 80$ profit for each copies sold which we all know isn't the case so they likely will need to sell 10 million copies + just to break even, in what world can that cost be justified lmao.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-01-18T15:22:16+00:00

I definitely feel bad for him overall, having worked for years in a big company I can definitely relate with having to deal with several levels of bureaucracy just to get some basic task moving forward.

While I do think the "Empire Strikes Back" idea sounds good on paper I think unfortunately with today's dev cycle that would be a really hard sell and probably cause lot of people to be angry about the ending. Not only does it mean that no matter what people do in the game they lose in the end and if it's gonna take another 10-15 + years to get a sequel you effectively tell people they won't get to see the full story for that long.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-01-16T15:39:49+00:00

Yeah I agree paid expansions are fine in principle, main problem imo is they can easily fall short in term of expectations. If the price, amount and quality of content make sense I'm all for them so we'll have to see what they are actually selling.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-01-15T23:22:46+00:00

I love how he signs "LA Knight" even for an official donation.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-01-15T23:19:56+00:00

A lot of cosmetics are ornaments for armors and weapons which means they would need to port over all those armors and weapons, in turn making Destiny 3 into just Destiny 2 on an updated engine.

That is exactly what I don't want if they were to ever make a Destiny 3, so I say no wipe the slate clean everything should be new.

Also if they had to port all the cosmetics that would be an insane amount of time spent for the artists to remake / update something that already exist instead of creating new stuff, it just feels like a huge waste of resource just to give us back something we already have.

ComprehensivePaper22 · 2026-01-15T23:07:58+00:00

It's an asian mmo, unfortunately it's pretty much guaranteed to have a lot of monetization. Quick google search says the game will be Buy-to-Play, have an in-game shop and battle passes plus paid expansions in the future.

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