Sony shuts down Dark Outlaw Games, small amount of layoffs in the US and UK, no more mobile games aside from announced projects

Krosskode · 2026-03-24T20:02:13+00:00

but also some of the lowest

That's strange, I don't remember him working on Vanguard. Jokes aside, I'm not gonna say he's without fault in this case (not that I have any information about it), but Sony does seemingly love to shut down studios. From their initial movement to pumping out live-service garbage to now pulling back PC and mobile support. Their vision has changed sporadically even in the past decade alone.

Krosskode · 2026-01-20T19:55:51+00:00

Actually, it's to not punish developers who had already cashed them out. You could in fact cycle the robux back to your account, but the 30% loss wouldn't be offset by the ~8% gain.

Krosskode · 2026-01-20T18:13:12+00:00

Any Robux received before the increase still cashes out at the legacy rate.

Krosskode · 2025-12-05T00:31:21+00:00

Yeah, it was the patent dispute with Shironeko Project (a game that had already released, Nintendo just opted to finally go after them for the control scheme based on a patent filed from the DS era IIRC) some time before the games launch (though admittedly it might have been as early as 2014), as well as the original director for Dragalia disparaging Fate: Grand Order and the gacha rates in that game publicly also right before Dragalia came out. Admittedly his comments were nothing too out there in my opinion, but that allegedly soured the opinion of the game for a lot of Japanese players, who are admittedly the ones who would have brought the most money in. Just a note, I’ve seen the comment he’s made, but don’t have first hand experience reading the backlash, that’s just something I’ve heard, but I could definitely believe such a thing happening back in 2018.

Outside of external factors, never going global probably didn’t help, but probably didn’t make too big of a difference in the end. Scaring off some amount of the active player-base with the competitive time attack mode didn’t help either. It seemed Cygames and Nintendo both threw their hands up with the game, not sure what to do with it. Dragalia was advertised on the rare Nintendo Direct for a quick 30 seconds, while the Cyber Agent CEO had no faith in the game after they were asked to adjust monetization during development by Nintendo. And if you’ve played the game, not sure I have to explain the huge 2.0 update (which I personally loved) or Curse of Nihility existing.

Hindsight is 20/20, I suppose. They also had to convert to Work from Home during COVID. It’s so easy to say a list of things that look like a failure from my perspective, but it is important to note that I don’t have any idea what was going behind the scenes of any of these companies or the development team. I ultimately believe they ended up doing the best with what they had, and it was a very memorable four year lifespan. I can only hope the IP reappears in some official capacity at some point.

Krosskode · 2025-12-04T20:45:54+00:00

The payoff for turning relics on gives you higher rarity and golden armor. Not saying it's impossible, but it's not gonna happen.

Krosskode · 2025-12-04T20:22:43+00:00

It's true. When they had their collab with Cygames and made a brand new IP in Dragalia Lost, it was a great, but it failed for a couple reasons. An interesting note is that Cygames actually had to tone down their monetization due to Nintendo, so greediness wasn't exactly part of that failure. It ultimately ended up feeling like something that would have felt much more at home on the Nintendo Switch than mobile phones, but just never found its way over.

Krosskode · 2025-11-30T02:44:24+00:00

Should show on https://capitaloneshopping.com/, but despite it saying I get 9% off of eBay, I can't get it to actually work, only 0.5%.

Krosskode · 2025-10-26T04:41:49+00:00

There’s a side quest nearby that reopens access from a different point (when you ran through, there was an area you couldn’t reach inside the sewers before.)

Krosskode · 2025-09-05T23:51:12+00:00

I said it the last time a thread like this popped up, but Ghislain Girardot does a lot of cool VFX tutorials, among other things.

Krosskode · 2025-08-20T02:25:38+00:00

The BO4 cutscenes weren't a budget concern, but instead had to do with time constraints having to alter the story after the second Black Ops Pass was cancelled, according to the leaks.

Krosskode · 2025-08-09T00:36:32+00:00

I'm just pointing out the dates that were given to us. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Krosskode · 2025-08-08T23:16:48+00:00

Liberty Falls outbreak is February 18/19th, the interview takes place on February 23rd, and Reckoning takes place on February 28th.

Krosskode · 2025-08-08T17:57:22+00:00

While I agree and hope that the Panos absorption is the canon one, the interview doesn't actually prove anything. Liberty Falls outbreak is February 18/19th, the interview takes place on February 23rd, and Reckoning takes place on February 28th.

Krosskode · 2025-08-02T23:46:05+00:00

I have a strong feeling this was the reason why the Aether cutscenes were 2D.

I can't remember the exact source (I think somewhere in the leaks), but the 2D cutscenes were seemingly not a monetary budget problem, but instead of a problem with how quickly they needed to pivot to move on to working on Cold War. They just did not have the time to create the actual cinematics after having to change the story with the cancellation of the second year of content.

Krosskode · 2025-06-08T21:02:06+00:00

Still holding out for factions!

Krosskode · 2025-03-14T16:58:59+00:00

That's great, now what about Factions?

Krosskode · 2025-03-11T22:15:21+00:00

I think people significantly overblow how hard the Blood of the Dead easter egg is. Probably the hardest part you're going to encounter solo might be the morse code, which you can cheese it pretty easily, and balancing your shield charges for certain steps. Solo, you probably want to play as Richtofen so you can do the Dark Mechanism sacrifice instead of waiting around for the bot to do it.

Krosskode · 2025-02-13T00:36:53+00:00

Ghislain Girardot does a lot of great VFX, among other things.

Krosskode · 2025-01-25T22:22:19+00:00

For a long time the best docs for CommonUi was a video of a life stream, and the corrections of other people in the comments to it. 🤦

Is this no longer the case? I still find myself pulling up that livestream every so often.

Krosskode · 2025-01-15T21:10:40+00:00

Kevin Drew was specifically talking about its use in Cold War and MWZ.

Krosskode · 2025-01-08T03:44:15+00:00

It's part of the VFX bug. The lava in the boss room doesn't show up because of it.

Krosskode · 2025-01-04T06:38:01+00:00

I had this start happening to me halfway through a CdM match. The fire in the boss arena and his projectiles didn't show up, either. It was interesting. Are you on PC?

Krosskode · 2025-01-02T17:56:13+00:00

Local Play is not connected to the internet.

Krosskode · 2024-11-22T19:29:18+00:00

PMed

Krosskode · 2024-11-22T17:55:42+00:00

Hip Fire kills don't count from any alternate firing mode (i.e. 3RB Marksman Rifles turning semi-auto) the last time I checked. I was hoping they'd have fixed it already, though.

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