Daniel Erickson, CCO of Thought Pennies studio, not too long ago introduced that employees had been laid off and an upcoming sport canceled. “Over the past three years at Thought Pennies we constructed one thing wonderful”, he wrote on LinkedIn. “We by no means missed a milestone, our suggestions was nice, our partnerships robust. We went from two individuals and a PowerPoint to a group of virtually sixty heavily-vetted, extremely impartial, passionate professionals. Our writer modified strategic path, nonetheless, and our earlier challenge is now with out funding.”
That challenge was apparently a Warhammer sport. It is robust to say whether or not it might have been set in Warhammer Fantasy or Age of Sigmar based mostly on mentions within the LinkedIn profiles of its builders, however what they do name it’s a “cancelled fantasy reside service RPG in Unreal 5”, a “third individual ARPG”, and a “Co-Op PvE Motion RPG with a forged of distinctive heroes and playstyles”.
Whereas I am all for extra Warhammer RPGs, we have already received Vermintide 2 for co-op PVE . And it is robust to be too upset about one other reside service sport being canceled, on condition that it appears to occur each different week. Nonetheless, it is a disgrace that so many builders misplaced their jobs as a result of an unnamed writer modified its concepts about “strategic path”.
It is value noting that, whereas it has been reported elsewhere that Video games Workshop was liable for pulling the funding that resulted on this cancellation, that is not how licence agreements work. Studios and publishers pay licence holders to make use of their mental property slightly than the opposite means round—it is on the writer whether or not they proceed funding a brand new reside service sport after seeing a rash of failures and cancellations within the style.
