Article: THQ Closes Homefront Developer Kaos Studios

You can view the page at http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/con...r-Kaos-Studios

Who?

The who is in the headline, ffs.

Don't spend so much on marketing for a shitty game that will never make it back, and you can stay in business longer.

JUST SAYIN.

In all seriousness, we're losing good, modern, high-tech jobs to Canada because Canada is investing money to attract those jobs while we pretend to care about the deficit.

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Originally Posted by Chux

Don't spend so much on marketing for a shitty game that will never make it back, and you can stay in business longer.

JUST SAYIN.

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They made a statement like last week talking about how the game was profitable and they want to do a sequel.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

In all seriousness, we're losing good, modern, high-tech jobs to Canada because Canada is investing money to attract those jobs while we pretend to care about the deficit.

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This is what really struck me, too. Because I don't think this was about Homefront being a commercial disappointment, it's about people don't want to make games in New York, they want to make them in Canada instead.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

They made a statement like last week talking about how the game was profitable and they want to do a sequel.

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Who bought it? I have a full friends list on xbl and a good amount on steam and I haven't seen anybody playing it.

The moogles don't count since they play everything.

I dunno, I played it on PS3. I also liked it. The campaign is super short but worth playing, and the multiplayer is genuinely very good. Really fast and fun, but not a simple deathmatch-fest.

I just added an edit to the article. THQ said that Kaos employees would likely be offered the opportunity to relocate to Canada, which pretty much confirms my initial speculation that this was more about New York than the product.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I dunno, I played it on PS3. I also liked it. The campaign is super short but worth playing, and the multiplayer is genuinely very good. Really fast and fun, but not a simple deathmatch-fest.

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Well then they must have improved it heavily from the alpha and beta that I played. (The beta ran into feb, and I know the game wasn't that much further out).

as long people support Metacritic and the current videogame journalists review standard this studio and many more will close, because after all this game got like an 80 and according to Metacritic thats in the orange. to me thats pathetic!! the fact that people think thats a bad score is the reason alot of studios are choosing to play it safe instead of taking chances and thinking outside the box. We should be boycotting Metacritic and videogame media outlets that rate games using a number or letter scale