प्रकाशक के बंद होने, साइबरबुलिंग और खराब बिक्री के बाद स्ट्रे सोल्स डेवलपर बंद हो गया

प्रकाशक के बंद होने, साइबरबुलिंग और खराब बिक्री के बाद स्ट्रे सोल्स डेवलपर बंद हो गया

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स्ट्रे सोल्स डेवलपर जुकाई स्टूडियो बंद हो रहा है। इसके आलोक में बंद करने का निर्णय लिया गया प्रकाशक वर्सेज ईविल भी बंद हो रहा है, but the studio additionally cited cyberbullying, Stray Souls’ poor reception and bad sales as contributing factors.

स्टूडियो ने घोषणा की कि वह दिसंबर में बंद हो रहा है, उसी दिन वर्सेज ईविल बंद हो गया सोशल मीडिया पोस्ट (धन्यवाद, GamesIndustry.biz). “We are aware you had high expectations for Stray Souls, but we never informed you that only two core individuals, along with contracted personnel, were working on the game,” it said.

“We did everything in our power to bring the project to completion in the best possible form, but throughout the entire duration we, our publisher staff, other publisher dev teams and our close ones were constantly attacked by a cyber persecutor, and some of you, as our community, were also tormented with unwanted messages and emails.”

यूरोगैमर न्यूज़कास्ट: वर्ष 2023 की समाचार प्रश्नोत्तरी!

The studio continued: “We understand that you did not wish to continue actively supporting us for the obvious reasons mentioned above. The matter is now in the hands of our lawyers, so we cannot speak about it any further, but know that we will not abandon [Stray Souls] despite the studio’s closure.”

Jukai Studio went on to thank its community for its support, despite the “adversities” faced. It also noted that none of its staff had been laid off as it “never functioned as a large corporation”. Rather, the team members “decided that each of us will go their separate ways.”

स्ट्रे सोल्स टीम को अब उम्मीद है कि 2024 गेमिंग उद्योग में कई लोगों के लिए एक बेहतर वर्ष होगा, 2023 में कई अन्य स्टूडियो बंद होंगे और पूरे बोर्ड में छंटनी होगी।

हमारे बर्टी ने अपने फीचर में पिछले वर्ष उद्योग पर पड़े प्रभाव को कवर किया, You can’t talk about 2023 in games without talking about layoffs.

“I can’t balance this equation – I’ve been trying all year and it gives me a headache,” he wrote in December. “We should be talking about 2023 as one of the years that will go down in history for games, like 2007 did. We’ve had Baldur’s Gate 3, Zelda 2, Cocoon, Alan Wake 2, Banished Vault, and – genuinely – so many more. We’ve been giddy all year at Eurogamer at the relentless quality on show.

“We ought to be celebrating now during this end of year period, and we will celebrate. We can’t do that alone, because there’s another story we cannot ignore: layoffs.”

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