Telltale Games Closing Down - Rumors at the moment

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RJ MacReady said:
That's a business consideration that's more relevant to fresh startups, not an extant company that's always been located in that area.
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That doesn't make any sense, unless you believe that regional labor markets do not change over time, or that companies somehow get a mulligan on their ability to stay solvent because they've been around longer.

And you missed the point: If Telltale Games was making money, the inherent expenses of doing business in California shouldn't have been a major financial concern.
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Profit is income minus expenses. Expenses including labor costs, which, again, change over time.
 
Alpha Loves You said:
Don't be sad that they're gone, be happy that they were there

Monkey island, Homestar Runner, Tales from the Borderlands, at least 2 seasons of the walking dead were all great and no amount of closing studios will take that greatness away
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Idk man saying WALKING DEAD TT games were good is kinda well disingenious. They were boring. , the only entertainment was the death scenes
 
i only remember these guys because of the sam and max series.
and the terror i felt when minecraft story mode was first revealed
 
Sexy Potoo said:
Wait, not even TWD is getting a final season, and instead they are ending the company on Minecraft? Wow, what a fuckin' trash fire.
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If you have minimal money, you use it to finalize existing commitments so you don't get sued.

Cold, but sadly logical.
 
Disney buying Lucasarts was probably the first nail in Telltales coffin. Would of been cool to see a Star Wars or Indiana Jones game.

Or shit, even a sequel to Loom.

Still, Telltales gave me a final adventure with Guybrush Threepwood. I'll always be grateful for that.
 
Literally the only good thing they had going for them after TWD S1 was The Wolf Among Us and we can't even get a season 2. But hey at least we got fucking Minecraft story mode amirite fellas

Wonder how long it'll take for that YongYea leech to dig his teeth into this shit. I can already hear the video now.

"while cd projekt red is fingering my asshole, ea bad lootboxes, and something something microtransactions, it looks like telltale is shutting down. i didn't play any of the games but let me read articles i didn't write for 10 minutes. gimme patreon money"
 
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i was a fan of some of their games, mostly after their first season of the walking dead(though i did hear about their jurassic park and back to the future games back then, but didnt know it was by telltale). sure, not all of them were winners, the 3rd season of the walking dead being pretty weak, but i didnt hate them, just that they had potential and kept missing after. i thought their new season with batman was pretty good and had some hope with the final season's first episode. but like that one character in the first episode of the second season, hope always dies. chances are, however, they will still release the second episode of it and continue working on getting minecraft story mode on netflix before they go out
 
neural said:
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Not terribly broken up about this. The last Telltale game I played was the first Batman. It was dull, the story was confusing, the graphics were janky and less impressive than previous Telltale games, and it felt like the game was actively punishing you for playing. They make games that give you choices while at the same time channeling you into deterministic outcomes. Sometimes it works, but the writing has to be on point. In Batman you could make all the right choices and still have the characters tell you you did the wrong thing. Very frustrating experience overall.

To be honest, I think I was more upset about Gazillion shutting down because at least Marvel Heroes was fun. Telltale is a mediocre studio producing mediocre games. Good riddance.
 
KillThemCrackasBabies said:
I wonder how much of their money was pissed away on licensing in the first place. Their games seemed popular enough but like has already been said, all they did were other peoples IP. That had to have hurt over time.
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It always seemed like they were trying to replicate the success of TWD, during the height of its TV craze. Chasing IPs like Batman and GOT must have cost a mint and they might have been better served with smaller IPs.

It was also a fairly common complaint that they never seemed to update the games engine or mechanics and more polished narrative games, like Firewatch and Life is Strange ate their lunch. Bummed about no TWAU2 coming out, i thought that style and world worked really well.
 
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