The relevant part: >1) Cancelation of titles under development >In response to the lower profitability of the European region, we have reviewed the title portfolio of each development base in Europe and the resulting action will be to cancel “HYENAS” and some unannounced titles under development. Accordingly, we will implement a write-down of work-in-progress for titles under development.
I guess even SEGA realized that Hyenas was going to be a massive flop. I still don't understand why they thought it was a good idea in the first place, but at least now they won't waste any more resources on it. Too bad they didn't realize it sooner though.
>sega's mascot is an anthropomorphic hedgehog >make a title named "hyenas" >it isn't about female anthro hyenas fighting
it was dead in the water anyways
Even a furry fest shooter would have been significantly more profitable than this shit as you would have:
*the furries
*the streamers playing it ironically
*the normies who follow the streamers (who they might be able to keep if the game had been fun)
Yeah and the thing with furry stuff is that, as long as you don't make it too overtly sexualized, most people don't give a frick. Just look at "furry" games like say Starfox or Ratchet and Clank, people don't care that you're playing as a furry and that there's probably a mountain of the grossest furry porn of these characters, onlymyvg that the games are fun.
I want to finger their wienerussies until they cum and go limp-dicked and then frick them, while they're deeply embarrasses that several millions of years of anti-rape evolution had failed them from preventing my rape of their c**twieners.
Perhaps someone got wind that HYENAS was like if you visited /misc/ and asked them to design a game that appeals to zoomers and transsexuals.
Seriously, pandering to the point of ridiculousness, join the (p)ACK, and the logo literally being a dead hyena?
Instead of just being some weird NBA x Loony Toons thing using ayylmaos as the glue to hold the plot together like the first Space Jam, it's about Le Bron getting sucked into the computer similation at WB and is just a few hours of them wanking all the property they own. There's barely any plot and all the jokes are just showing THING YOU RECOGNIZE hoping the audience soys the frick out.
What would it have been anyway? I've obviously heard the name but never really done any research beyond that. Why wpuld CA have been involved if it was just a shooter, or were they just trying to hype it?
It was a live service extraction shooter. From the sound of it, it was very pessimistic and made by people that either hate video games or hated that specific game.
Hey there CA shills here is an idea for a total war game
Red Indian Total War
make each faction different even if it is not historical (who can tell? red indians have no recorded history)
Comanche
Huron
Iroquois
Pueblo
Pima
Apache
Navaho
Massachussett
Chinook
mid game disaster = aztecs come and genocide you
late game disaster = spanish guy on a horse rides around killing everyone
end game disaster = hordes of escaped slaves rampage through the land
We KNOW they were working on new engine (Allah willing).
WW1 was a rumored "test game" for that engine like Empire was.
Nobody knows if they will have money for it after this blunder.
5 years of development, with those CA could have created a good new engine, or at least an empire 2 or med 3. A disaster in choices.
I don' see anytime soon good new TW, the new titles need to be cheap, secure, DLC open, wow what a thrilling prospective
Wait when x groups of old people leave to make their cheap non-Total War game like these ex-Blizzard employess idiots who are (not) making a quality game called Stormgate; wait for the obvious shit that no one is going to care about...
Unquestionably the right decision. This thing had zero hype and was dead in the water. I just wonder how the frick this got greenlight in the first place. Overwatch was a while ago, did everybody just forget that Battleborn existed?
Every part of Hyena screamed "Safe coporate product". Which, when your main product is Warhammer and historical wargames it's kind of impressive to go down from there. It's like what you would get if 40 year old boomers still painting the same old Eldar Guardian models I know they got updated recently and Napoleonic soldiers tried to be hip.
A shame about the jobs, but i do think it's a good idea to refocus.
Nah, it's Larry Fink, yet another cause of rot in the entertainment industry.
Whenever you see some soul-crushing product or advertisement that you know can’t possibly make any money, it’s because BlackRock is paying for it. This has been done to death at this point.
However, here’s what the usual talking heads won’t ever tell you, but what I will tell you: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is israeli, in case you couldn't tell from that beak of his. Can you imagine that? The guy destroying vidya is israeli?
Does this mean that a sequel to Stormrise might finally happen?
HW2 proved that those 4~5 cross-platform strategygays who are still alive are desperate enough to get to play anything nowadays.
So Amplitude is also under Sega, aaaaaaaand... They haven't really had the best track reccord since the last few ES2 DLCs, Human Kind, and taking years on making a twin stick shooter spin off to Dungeon of the Endless.
Obviously CA's going to act funky for a bit, and Sega main house will double down on Sonic/Yakuza while milking Atlus for Persona. What's this mean for Amplitude though?
>French
Yeah good chance they are gonna see cuts as well since they are in France. I'm sure at least one of those unannounced games was one of theirs as well. Their next game is endless dungeons and that's not gonna bee a huge money maker.
Watch Focus or THQ Nordic sweep in and buy all these studios on the cheap.
Might be an improvement honestly, since SmEGmA has been mismanaging all their acquisitions that's why they have to fallback to inhouses or cashcows like Purseowner, and why DoWIII happened Unless Microsoft buys them
>Neil Blomkamp wanted internet memes and gifs to pop up in the game UI
I fricking love reading about dumpster fires. In a way It's a shame they canned it, it would be the peak >how do you do, fellow kids
The relevant part:
>1) Cancelation of titles under development
>In response to the lower profitability of the European region, we have reviewed the title portfolio of each development base in Europe and the resulting action will be to cancel “HYENAS” and some unannounced titles under development. Accordingly, we will implement a write-down of work-in-progress for titles under development.
I guess even SEGA realized that Hyenas was going to be a massive flop. I still don't understand why they thought it was a good idea in the first place, but at least now they won't waste any more resources on it. Too bad they didn't realize it sooner though.
Hyenas was a flagship title for... EU Region?
They mean CA is a European studio (or "development base"), not that the game was specifically marketed towards Europeans.
Sure that neither the shitty online community and Sega never went to any city of Europe recently. uh?
Good luck explain them that exist a public (of wich btw is the vocal/writting MAJORITY) that this game nowdays can get a future...
I'm not sure what you're even trying to say here.
And you all still winning about the AAA companies being "the bad guys", and not you anons...
stfu esl you're not even making sense
Please learn English before posting on an English-language imageboard, Ching Chong.
What the frick? The game looked absolutely poggers and I couldn’t wait to play it.
Oh boy, a Nixon joke! Kids sure are gonna love it!
Wtf the guy from Payday is real???
>sega's mascot is an anthropomorphic hedgehog
>make a title named "hyenas"
>it isn't about female anthro hyenas fighting
it was dead in the water anyways
>space hyenas with burly muscle females and qt twink boys fight the rich king lion and his elites, mercenary gorillas, crocodiles, zebras etc
They would've been guaranteed the furry market, and considering commissions, there are some seriously wealthy furries out there.
make your characters fully design able with plenty of clothes, armors and other cosmetic stuff and you are set
Even a furry fest shooter would have been significantly more profitable than this shit as you would have:
*the furries
*the streamers playing it ironically
*the normies who follow the streamers (who they might be able to keep if the game had been fun)
Yeah and the thing with furry stuff is that, as long as you don't make it too overtly sexualized, most people don't give a frick. Just look at "furry" games like say Starfox or Ratchet and Clank, people don't care that you're playing as a furry and that there's probably a mountain of the grossest furry porn of these characters, onlymyvg that the games are fun.
those are game's for kids dumbass, of course normies wouldn't care about them
A man of fine taste, I see
I want to finger their wienerussies until they cum and go limp-dicked and then frick them, while they're deeply embarrasses that several millions of years of anti-rape evolution had failed them from preventing my rape of their c**twieners.
>CA releases Hyenas
>turns out it was just a codename for Zootopia: Total War.
>my completely non-coomshit Elza pic got deleted, but this one is still up
Why are jannies always so obviously gay?
Woah, that's based, but unexpected. I thought they will release it anyway to recover at least some money, but they simply axed it.
Now CA will have to pull put big guns. Medieval 3 and 40k/Lotr soon.
Troy reskin with KANGZ is best you will get.
Join the -ACK!
I wonder what happened. Did they accidently let someone who actually knows about video games into the board room?
I don't think SEGA would allow that to happen.
Perhaps someone got wind that HYENAS was like if you visited /misc/ and asked them to design a game that appeals to zoomers and transsexuals.
Seriously, pandering to the point of ridiculousness, join the (p)ACK, and the logo literally being a dead hyena?
it really feel like some /misc/tard made trolling
backed by ~~*data*~~ and ~~*statistic*~~
Maybe this is just what happens when a Jap company tries to pull off Western-style woke stuff.
>pandering to the point of ridiculousness
People still following this drug addict?
His furhomosexualroon voregay was the druggie senpai, he's jsut a cuck
>and SpaceJam2 was too subtle for you
Explain, I ain't watching that wokeshit until it's on TV for free.
Instead of just being some weird NBA x Loony Toons thing using ayylmaos as the glue to hold the plot together like the first Space Jam, it's about Le Bron getting sucked into the computer similation at WB and is just a few hours of them wanking all the property they own. There's barely any plot and all the jokes are just showing THING YOU RECOGNIZE hoping the audience soys the frick out.
>spacejam 2 is woke
Anon, lebron legit almost cheats on his wife for lola bunny.
It is woke after it was confirmed they gave Lola a masectomy to not upset trannies and feminists. . .
It had a closed beta test with ~1k playing. It was a buy2play game. 100% dead on arrival, cheaper to cancel it.
What would it have been anyway? I've obviously heard the name but never really done any research beyond that. Why wpuld CA have been involved if it was just a shooter, or were they just trying to hype it?
It was a live service extraction shooter. From the sound of it, it was very pessimistic and made by people that either hate video games or hated that specific game.
Oh shit good riddance then, that sounds extremely gay
Yeah there was a reason it was cancelled. I don't think there was a single positive reception for it out there.
Again, they killed it by not making it furshit unironically
I mean if you want whales for a live service game, that's a good market to hit.
Furgays are an untapped market for major projects.
Not quite. All major MMOs make sure to get a furry or anime girl race to pick.
>What would it have been anyway?
Lawbreakers 2: feminism is awesome edittion
>Warhammer is saved
More like Total War as a whole is dead. CA is getting scrapped.
Don't worry fellas Rome 2 reskin #9 will save them!
>CA employees losing jobs
I wanted to laugh at such a flop of a game, but this will be a fine compromise
Hey there CA shills here is an idea for a total war game
Red Indian Total War
make each faction different even if it is not historical (who can tell? red indians have no recorded history)
Comanche
Huron
Iroquois
Pueblo
Pima
Apache
Navaho
Massachussett
Chinook
mid game disaster = aztecs come and genocide you
late game disaster = spanish guy on a horse rides around killing everyone
end game disaster = hordes of escaped slaves rampage through the land
>Legend of Total War here, and today we're testing his Winnetou one man doomstack
newbie
Go before colonisation where it is just hordes of savages slaughtering each other as they follow the bison around
honestly a colonization tw would be kino
ive seen some leaks, theyre working on a fricking ww1 and 40k total war now it seems?
>fricking ww1
Woah, large if factual
honestly it was 1 plebdit screencap I saw on Ganker
ive seen new medieval and star wars disney shit too
Oh, too bad. But who knows, maybe CA goes full schizo and makes something like that anyways
Yeah, maybe CA will ACCIDENTALLY make a good game. Good lord how they have fallen.
They accidentally made Alien Isolation.
They accidentally fall into the old anglo boomer gamer rat trap of cheap drama.
worst post ITT
We KNOW they were working on new engine (Allah willing).
WW1 was a rumored "test game" for that engine like Empire was.
Nobody knows if they will have money for it after this blunder.
how could they simulate ww1? the closest I can imagine is that mediocre ww1 indie rts that came out a few months ago
5 years of development, with those CA could have created a good new engine, or at least an empire 2 or med 3. A disaster in choices.
I don' see anytime soon good new TW, the new titles need to be cheap, secure, DLC open, wow what a thrilling prospective
>CA realizing that they should put the DLC of Nippon into Warhammer 3 BEFORE making HYENAS.
Wait when x groups of old people leave to make their cheap non-Total War game like these ex-Blizzard employess idiots who are (not) making a quality game called Stormgate; wait for the obvious shit that no one is going to care about...
never, because total wars are hard to make
And for all you sake, (considering that the only good RTS is gonna be Starcraft 2 at this point), have hope that shit will never happen...
>(considering that the only good RTS is gonna be Starcraft 2 at this point)
Having an indentity crisis at this point, anon...
>indentity crisis
Just because you don't like new civ bonuses does not make it an identity crisis.
Shut up and still pretend that CA stoping (for now) the develop of HYENAS is a "good think" anon.
So you know that it is a serious problem that Age of Empires 2 has, but out of ego and anglo-saxon stupidity you don't want to acknowledge it. right?
>Warhammer TW is saved
by cutting the UK studio's staff in half?
Maybe now they will actually focus on one project at time instead of stretching themselves thin and get nothing worth of shit done.
Yeah, trim the bloat. Now that Hyeans are no longer a thing all those additional workers are useless
Unironically maybe
Unquestionably the right decision. This thing had zero hype and was dead in the water. I just wonder how the frick this got greenlight in the first place. Overwatch was a while ago, did everybody just forget that Battleborn existed?
Every part of Hyena screamed "Safe coporate product". Which, when your main product is Warhammer and historical wargames it's kind of impressive to go down from there. It's like what you would get if 40 year old boomers still painting the same old Eldar Guardian models I know they got updated recently and Napoleonic soldiers tried to be hip.
A shame about the jobs, but i do think it's a good idea to refocus.
how far gone is the corporate world when hyenas is considered "safe"
VERY far.
It's all nepotistic failing upwards incompetence at this point. It's broken beyond repair.
Who is that? Owner of SEGA?
Nah, it's Larry Fink, yet another cause of rot in the entertainment industry.
Whenever you see some soul-crushing product or advertisement that you know can’t possibly make any money, it’s because BlackRock is paying for it. This has been done to death at this point.
However, here’s what the usual talking heads won’t ever tell you, but what I will tell you: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is israeli, in case you couldn't tell from that beak of his. Can you imagine that? The guy destroying vidya is israeli?
> it’s because BlackRock is paying for it.
Apparently not in the case of Hyena. Otherwise, they would have retreated.
>The guy destroying vidya is israeli?
Lol.
It's all Europeans and Americans. Always has been. Always will be.
>I just wonder how the frick this got greenlit in the first place
Lawbreakers 2: Laws of Biology
>bunch of leftist talantless troony hacks got fired
>rest of the CA will work hard to bring us the Warhammer kino we deserve
absolutely based
it's dead jim
me, i did
Does this mean that a sequel to Stormrise might finally happen?
HW2 proved that those 4~5 cross-platform strategygays who are still alive are desperate enough to get to play anything nowadays.
I was actually looking forward to the release of this.
You know why
No I dont actualy, would you mind elaborating further?
NTA but sometimes one just wants to see a train crash in real time.
So Amplitude is also under Sega, aaaaaaaand... They haven't really had the best track reccord since the last few ES2 DLCs, Human Kind, and taking years on making a twin stick shooter spin off to Dungeon of the Endless.
Obviously CA's going to act funky for a bit, and Sega main house will double down on Sonic/Yakuza while milking Atlus for Persona. What's this mean for Amplitude though?
They were doomed the second they sold out to SEGA. After that they started outsourcing DLC and making wokekind.
But hey, lets keep buy the Yakuza game series, sure that is not in Sega hands the francise, right?
The only writer/designer/producer guy left.
And they running out of soap opera storylines to milk.
Sure anon, here´s you trophy btw.
Oh yeah, those kind of buttholes that still don´t let any japanese who wants to go "umineko" style go outside of the islands yet...
>French
Yeah good chance they are gonna see cuts as well since they are in France. I'm sure at least one of those unannounced games was one of theirs as well. Their next game is endless dungeons and that's not gonna bee a huge money maker.
Watch Focus or THQ Nordic sweep in and buy all these studios on the cheap.
Might be an improvement honestly, since SmEGmA has been mismanaging all their acquisitions that's why they have to fallback to inhouses or cashcows like Purseowner, and why DoWIII happened
Unless Microsoft buys them
I actually was hoping for that but I saw the characters and.. yeah.
Yeah what normie?
Sorry, I was meant to say boomer with dual personality disorder...
I wanted to play as The Pro, IT’S NOT FAIR
Unironically one of the more decent-looking characters.
Did you know that The Pro was oldschool to the bone, and was gonna have a rad deployable turret? Shit would have been tight, fellow packer.
Do zoomers even know why the TrickyDick mask is an old media meme?
>Neil Blomkamp wanted internet memes and gifs to pop up in the game UI
I fricking love reading about dumpster fires. In a way It's a shame they canned it, it would be the peak
>how do you do, fellow kids