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Glad he didn't take being told to stop talking about Deus Ex too seriusly.
Deus Ex has ben doublesnubbed now, first by Squenix, and then by Embracer.
They don't seem to get that we do want more. Mankind Divided got hated on because Squenix tried to put fucking microtransactions in a full price single player story.
And that's more than likely why Embracer isn't bothering. In the land of Triple Ehh, if it isn't going to make all the money, it isn't good enough. So glad all those IP got sold off, they risked being ignored...
TBF, Eidos under Embracer had a game in progress, but it was one of the projects they cut when the saudis ended up not investing in them.
Embracer had bought up studios and started projects they didn't yet have money to fund, and when that bit them in the ass, it was the studios and games that got the axe.
Almost like they were greedy morons who achieved nothing.
CEOs just fail upwards
It must be nice to never be held accountable or feel any of the repercussions of your fuck ups, let alone those of others like the rest of us
Oh for sure. Tons of studios would probably still exist, and a lot of people would still have jobs, had Embracer just not bought those studios.
The irony of putting corporate enshittification in a game that has a story loosely about the evils of capitalism (and the illuminati i guess) and the fans of that kind of story reacting appropriately to it is pretty fucking funny tho.
Eh personally Deus Ex is one of my favourite games of all time but none of the subsequent games interested me because they were much less freeform. Unless Warren Spector decides to do one himself I don't think the series has much value to older gamers like myself, and I suspect they've probably done the analysis to suggest that the mainstream audience will be more receptive to whatever kind of thing is popular right now.
So they were trying to make a third game without Jenson when that’s exactly what was needed to bridge between him and JC Denton.
I’ll also never forgive Square for shelving the third game to chase money with the Avengers game that now no one remembers except to call hate on for bumping DX.
They also sold Tomb Raider alongside Deus Ex ... Thief, Legacy of Kain ...
Sold all of these and a few studios to focus on NFTs. Although I think their other reason was to focus on their "eastern" properties.
Also, no sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy. 😢