Irrational Games (Bioshock developer) shutting its doors

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This has nothing to do with money. They made a lot of money and would have gotten a budget for another bioshock game. They just didnt want to make another one. A lot of the people that worked on bioshock will stay with 2k and presumably work on the next one.

that makes sense...especially after reading his comment about taking a small team and continue making 'story driven' games...
 

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:manny:

They had a 17 year run, that's forever in game dev years.

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How was it racist? :dahell:
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Also people need to actually read the blog. They ain't closing down because of financial problems, he just said the "Bioshock" series has made over $500 mill.

They're closing down because Ken Levine ain't trying to manage a big ass game dev team 17 years into his career. He wants to focus on smaller games he can do with a smaller team.

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Can you answer my question.

No, because the question is about as irrelevant as the one I posted in response.

You're choosing to focus on black people in a game where pretty much everyone across the board caught Ls. The white "hero" protagonist is a man paid to kidnap a girl....who we find out sold his own daughter to pay off gambling debts. This same "white hero" is drowned by his daughter, the white ultra-conservative utopia Columbia is destroyed, and their idol Comstock is killed.

Should I say the game is racist against white people? The game makes white people look so bad white supremacists actually threatened to kill the people that made it:

http://kotaku.com/5968336/the-jew-ken-levine-is-making-a-white+person-killing-simulator

But it's racist because the black characters died and/or weren't depicted as stalwart heroes? :what:

You're smarter than this. If your argument uses the same logic as st0rmfr0nt it's time to rethink what you're saying.

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No, because the question is about as irrelevant as the one I posted in response.

You're choosing to focus on black people in a game where pretty much everyone across the board caught Ls. The white "hero" protagonist is a man paid to kidnap a girl....who we find out sold his own daughter to pay off gambling debts. This same "white hero" is drowned by his daughter, the white ultra-conservative utopia Columbia is destroyed, and their idol Comstock is killed.

Should I say the game is racist against white people? The game makes white people look so bad white supremacists actually threatened to kill the people that made it:

http://kotaku.com/5968336/the-jew-ken-levine-is-making-a-white person-killing-simulator

But it's racist because the black characters died and/or weren't depicted as stalwart heroes? :what:

You're smarter than this. If your argument uses the same logic as st0rmfr0nt it's time to rethink what you're saying.

Fred.
I see so in the end all the black people died after being treated like filth the entire game. Sounds racist to me. There was no happy ending for the oppressed. They crashed and burned and it was the end of their chapter and thats the game you chose to mount an angelic defense after? :ohhh: Put it together i rock with angels u rock with demons, friend. :sitdown:
 

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The development of infinite sunk that company. From what I'm hearing, they aren't completely shutting their doors. They're just downsizing greatly
 

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The development of infinite sunk that company. From what I'm hearing, they aren't completely shutting their doors. They're just downsizing greatly
Well Ken is taking 15 other people and basically starting a new studio inside of 2K so that he can make something other than System/BioShock.. Meanwhile Bioshock doesn't die because 2K still sold 4M+ copies and owns the rights to the franchise. The only baffling thing about this is why they had to let everyone else go (considering they're still going to use a larger studio to make Bioshock games anyway.
 
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