Telltale Games, developer of the Walking Dead game, reportedly shutting down

FAST6191 · Sep 22, 2018

This "sorry for the job havers" thing seems new to me, or at least new for people to talk about like this. For something like this I usually go with quality will win out.

At this point I am not sure if I played any of their non CSI games (and that would only have been because I had nothing else when at a relative's house one time). Always meant to get around to it some day (which might have been part of the problem as I am not the first person I have heard say such a thing).

Taleweaver said:
What I don't get is the toxicity in this thread.

Is this some of this fabled toxicity that I occasionally hear about? I am mightily disappointed. Seemed like normal internet stuff to me.

Xzi said:
Jesus, what a flash in the pan developer these guys were. They got a deal to make a game for every major IP on television, and then they die out? I guess interest really fell off after people realized their games were basically multiple choice visual novels that resulted in two or three possible endings.

Are you really a flash in the pan if you make it over a decade? They rose up with Sam & Max in 2006 and pretty consistently released since then.

CaptainSodaPop · Sep 22, 2018

pedro702 · Sep 22, 2018

VitaType said:
Maybe now all of them can make what they obviously always wanted to do: Work in the film industry.
I'm not surprised that a company which tries to make adventure games without any notable puzzles dosn't work out.
It neither helped that they just pretended that any of your decision have any effect on the story at all. Yes, it costs alot of money to at least pull of something like with Fate of Atlantis back then or even something like Heavy Rain did, but if you pretend your decision would make any difference at the end then you better make it happen.

What they released in the last years wasn't Point'n'Click-Adventures, it was just I-want-to-be-a-film-Quick-Time-Event trash.

yeah i meant the entire cinematic games genre that are barely games and more like interactive movies.

trogoldito · Sep 22, 2018

Really bummed out by this news. They filled a niche in the market that no one else did quite like them. Easily in my top 5 favorite developers.

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Song of storms · Sep 22, 2018

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Xzi · Sep 22, 2018

FAST6191 said:
Are you really a flash in the pan if you make it over a decade? They rose up with Sam & Max in 2006 and pretty consistently released since then.

Ah I didn't realize they made Sam and Max. I'm guessing the first Telltale game for most people was TWD, though, and that came out in 2012.

Captain_N · Sep 22, 2018

Sasori said:
Will we at least be getting all of season 3 still?

This sucks they where such a great company and did amazing work

If they were such a great company, they would have not slammed.....

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Captain_N said:
If they were such a great company, they would have not slammed.....

Theres a difference between being great and biting off more than you can chew. They simply did the latter of the two. They felt the success with the wolf among us and the walking dead and wanted more of it faster.

elBenyo · Sep 23, 2018

No more Poker Night At The Inventory games?! I am so sad.

Joe88 · Sep 23, 2018

Supposedly the rest of the final season of the walking dead has been cancelled, it is unknown if episode 2 will even release this week.

FAST6191 · Sep 23, 2018

Joe88 said:
Supposedly the rest of the final season of the walking dead has been cancelled, it is unknown if episode 2 will even release this week.

Sitting here thinking about it I don't know how that one would play.

If it is set to release this week it is surely all ready to go already. They might not have the juice to advertise it properly (no idea if they have contractual advertising commitments) but a slow play release and some income coming in would be something nice to have.
On the other hand if they want to have something to sell in their insolvency talks and as you are hard pressed to release a game twice in the modern world (don't know if they can get away with that "gold edition" stuff any more) and one you allowed to trickle out would kneecap that*. Some might also consider it a finishing on a cliffhanger as well.

*I would love to see the data on that if it did happen.

Deleted member 331788 · Sep 23, 2018

Pluupy said:
Good riddance. I hate their incomplete games. They're just as bad as those "early access" games.

They had a crap team who thought they were far to high and mighty to take customer complaints serious!
So how many purchased Back to the Future on iOS and could not download Ep 2-5??- this is why the have lack of sales!!!
...I'm glad there going!

Frederica Bernkastel · Sep 23, 2018

What's saddest about this news is that with the recent bout of layoffs, some details have started emerging about how harsh Telltale have been to their staff over the years.
With this quality of story-telling and game-making, one can only wonder how many bright sparks this company has extinguished. Maybe this is a blessing in disguise.

FAST6191 · Sep 24, 2018

Frederica Bernkastel said:
What's saddest about this news is that with the recent bout of layoffs, some details have started emerging about how harsh Telltale have been to their staff over the years.

I went looking for it and found a few things concerning the shutdown and working conditions
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2018/09/22/telltale-games-closure-grim-details/
https://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/09/22/former-telltale-employees-what-it-was-like-working/
https://www.pcgamesn.com/game-workers-unite-statement-telltale-closure (not seen much pro union stuff of late, curious to see what goes here).
Those and everything else seems like some rehashed version of the same handful of twitter witterings though.

Sucks for them certainly and another reason I am glad I don't have to deal with US style employment, live in San Francisco nor work in the game industry but most of that seems like usual game industry/tech industry nonsense of "work lots, there is life used well points in it". I was expecting something a bit juicier, at least on a par with the Quantic Dream stuff the other month ( https://gbatemp.net/threads/studio-...se-involving-toxic-workplace-behavior.512902/ ). Like the stuff about contractors -- as far as I am aware the whole point of the setup is you get to charge more but have to handle your own sick pay, pensions, holidays, in this case I guess unemployment and have no real security in the role beyond what you manage to get in there in negotiations.

GenevaPWNz · Sep 24, 2018

DarkOrb said:
I hope they will still release the 2nd and 3rd season of TWD for the Switch.

That isn't going to happen since season 3 has been canceled and the company has officially disbanded.

VitaType · Sep 25, 2018

Update: Episode 2 will release and who knows for Episode 3 and 4.
Source:

pic.twitter.com/Mw97tRsGGY
— Telltale (@telltalegames) September 24, 2018

Joe88 · Sep 26, 2018

https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/25/17903996/telltale-the-walking-dead-final-season-sales-canceled

They have pulled the game from stores and no longer allow people to buy the season pass, they are trying to find a studio to finish the last 2 episodes, people said they are contacting the store which they got it from to get refunds issued.

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