Maybe we should be barring these companies that dump their teams after releasing a game from winning awards?
We should. This is fucking bullshit exploitation.
Totally fair. Why should the business get the award when the people that made the thing that won the award no longer work for the business?
At the marketing circle jerk that is the other game awards, I would expect this. At the Game goddamn developers choice awards, yeah, show some support for the people. OR, make the effort to reach out to the people that made the game - some of them were actually at the GDC! It’s not like they dropped off the face of the earth after being laid off.
Imagine a best actor award at the Oscars not having anyone come up because the actor left Miramax to join Universal afterwards - but the fucking guy is sitting in the audience.
What an embarrassment.
I liked life is strange, we ran off together and said fuck the town
Don’t know anything about the game, but from the article it sounds like it was a commercial flop? Which would make it understandable that a lot of the dev team got laid off. This would be a different situation from those companies who had successes and then proceeded to lay off their dev teams anyway.
That’s just Square Enix coding. All of their games are flops by their records.
