Troika Closed
Over at No Mutants Allowed you can find a message from Leonard Boyarsky of Troika Games, who confirms rumors that the developer has shut down. Troika developed the recently released Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, as well as The Temple of Elemental Evil and Arcanum.
As many of you may have already heard, Troika has laid off all of its employees and is closing its doors due to our inability to secure funding for future projects. We have not yet made the decision as to whether Troika Games as an entity will regroup and pursue future projects or simply cease to exist.
We want to thank all of our fans for their support these past seven years, it has really meant a lot to us that there were people out there who enjoyed our games enough to create fan-sites and follow our progress as a company. But we especially want to thank all of our employees - we had the pleasure of working with the some of the most dedicated, hard working, creative people in the industry, and we really appreciate all that they did for Troika. Thanks for everything, Tim, Leonard, and Jason
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Well that sucks. I guess Vampire didn't sell so well?
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Ah, no, the combined sales of Half-Life 2, Doom3 and World of Warcraft are definately NOT less than a good console game. A SUPERB console game (or rather, mega-selling), like something in the GTA or Gran Turismo series, might have sold more than those three PC games combined, but 500.000 units is considered a good sales figure for most console games. World of Warcraft alone has sold way more than that.
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True, but to release it at the same time as HL2 was, well, stupid.
I guess they were kinda screwed. They had to wait for HL2 as per their source code arrangement. But then HL2 was not only delayed a year but was released in November - really late in the year. Not sure if it would have been able to ship on September 30, 2003, but if they waited until, say, now they would have missed the Xmas buying season. Not that it did them much good.
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I don't think piracy is any worse than it was eleven years ago when DooM was released.
What's really changed in the last 10 years is that people aren't buying new desktop PCs (perfectly equipped for hardcore gaming) any more. All the growth in the PC marker is in notebooks and, to some degree, mobile phones. With the lack of kick-ass system being sold to the public, the game market is suffering in general. As great as HL2 is, it probably won't approach the number of units as the original HL. -
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