Comment by ramesh31
10 hours ago
>The silver lining is that the talent didn't vanish and we have teams like Archetype working on Exodus, Stoic with The Banner Saga, or offshoots like Yellow Brick and Beamdog.
This is generally the case in the games industry. Great dev teams seem to function more like bands than companies. For however you feel about the latest iterations, the first Call of Duty was an absolute revelation to the FPS genre that we never would have gotten without the EA firing of the MoH team.
And then they moved on to make Titanfall 1 and 2 after the founders were unceremoniously fired by Activision, which were also great games
Then the cycle rhymed and they got bought by EA between Titanfall 1 and 2, built Apex Legends as a cash cow, diverted to doing nothing but Apex Legends and unceremoniously fired by EA when Apex Legends stopped being quite the cash cow it was at launch.