Board 8 > RIP Crystal Dynamics

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The Embreaper Group's culling continues.

https://twitter.com/eurogamer/status/1704594887985737734?s=19

that's a bit of an exaggeration when it's 10 of 300 employees being laid off...

Edit: looking into it further, it was 9 people from marketing and 1 from IT support. 0 developers.

Was about to say that this isn't surprising. All their Tomb Raider games were ridiculously expensive to make. Shadow is #11 on the all-time list.

Then I took a look at the article and like, 10 employees out of 300 isn't really that big of a deal anyway.

This is a great use case for not trying to rush a topic while refilling your water bottle at work.

I'm taking the L.

RIP crystal dynamics

UshiromiyaEva posted...

This is a great use case for not trying to rush a topic while refilling your water bottle at work.

I'm taking the L.

Feel free to repost in 6 months when the culling happens for real lol

Oh I will not be surprised at all if this topic title is correct, like, 2 weeks after they get their next game out.

I think Crystal Dynamics is safe until their agreement with Microsoft to make Perfect Dark is up.

KamikazePotato posted...

Was about to say that this isn't surprising. All their Tomb Raider games were ridiculously expensive to make. Shadow is #11 on the all-time list.

What in god's name. How

Shadow wasnt Crystal Dynamics! That was Eidos Montreal.

Regardless they sold insanely well, I think the 2013 one eventually became Squares highest selling game of all time. You know, a disappointment as Square would put it.

It became one of their highest selling games because of how often it was on sale for $5. There's a big difference between 20 million sales at $5 and 20 million at $60!

Thats absolutely fair but it did sell most of that in its first two years before those sales really got started! Mind you IIRC I got that game for 30 quid day of release so it definitely wasnt all $60 copies.

The first game sold almost 4 million copies in its first month--presumably at full price--and Squenix still called it a failure, lol.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

The first game sold almost 4 million copies in its first month--presumably at full price--and Squenix still called it a failure, lol.

It also didn't break even in that first month. Took half a year.

IIRC it recouped its development budget right away but not full cost including marketing and production. Six months to profitability is pretty good given that that game is still selling a decade later.

yeah count me as someone who thought crystal dynamics had already been folded into eidos

UshiromiyaEva posted...

This is a great use case for not trying to rush a topic while refilling your water bottle at work.

I'm taking the L.

Rip fluid dynamics

colliding posted...

yeah count me as someone who thought crystal dynamics had already been folded into eidos

Eidos bought Crystal Dynamics like 20 years ago I think?