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Death of Inception Games
May. 3rd, 2024 05:18 pm“On April 16th, Take-Two announced a cost reduction program to identify efficiencies across its business and to enhance the Company’s margin profile, while still investing for growth. As part of these efforts, the Company is rationalizing its pipeline and eliminating several projects in development and streamlining its organizational structure, which will eliminate headcount and reduce future hiring needs.”
Gods, I despise corporate speak. It always comes across like the worst bully in elementary school just discovered what a thesaurus is and they want to couch everything in such a way as to deflect responsibility. Damn, I can use myself some big words and archaic word structure but these assholes have elevated word salad to a master craft.
To translate, though, they fired a bunch of people to save money.
As is always the case, isn’t it?
What does that mean to me? Well, there’s not a whole lot of incentive to continue playing KSP2 is there? Sure, at this point I am half way through the base progression and have a bunch more stuff I can do, but once I am done with that, there will be nothing more. No updates (though they claim they will continue updates, there’s no reason to believe them) no new features such as colonies and interstellar, and, with the code locked away and likely shit canned as a tax write off, no new mods to save what’s left.
What does that mean to you (and by “you” I mean the perhaps hand-full of people that read my blog), there doesn’t seem much point in continuing. This blog was produced to share my joy of the game and perhaps encourage people to join me in in Kerbal space. I’m certainly not going to encourage anyone to throw good money after bad.
KSP1 is still out there. It;’s a complete game and a number of mods have made it as good if not better than the current state of KSP2. I still encourage people to play that. It is totally worth it.
Will I go back? Will I blog about KSP1? Maybe. If you look back on what I have blogged already, I’ve said most of what I want to say already. I may do more, close out some loose ends in KSP2 while I still have game progression to complete, but honestly it doesn’t look promising, at least from a blogging perspective.
It all very disappointing.
Well, not all. I still encourage people to get KSP1 and a stack of mods.
Gods, I despise corporate speak. It always comes across like the worst bully in elementary school just discovered what a thesaurus is and they want to couch everything in such a way as to deflect responsibility. Damn, I can use myself some big words and archaic word structure but these assholes have elevated word salad to a master craft.
To translate, though, they fired a bunch of people to save money.
As is always the case, isn’t it?
What does that mean to me? Well, there’s not a whole lot of incentive to continue playing KSP2 is there? Sure, at this point I am half way through the base progression and have a bunch more stuff I can do, but once I am done with that, there will be nothing more. No updates (though they claim they will continue updates, there’s no reason to believe them) no new features such as colonies and interstellar, and, with the code locked away and likely shit canned as a tax write off, no new mods to save what’s left.
What does that mean to you (and by “you” I mean the perhaps hand-full of people that read my blog), there doesn’t seem much point in continuing. This blog was produced to share my joy of the game and perhaps encourage people to join me in in Kerbal space. I’m certainly not going to encourage anyone to throw good money after bad.
KSP1 is still out there. It;’s a complete game and a number of mods have made it as good if not better than the current state of KSP2. I still encourage people to play that. It is totally worth it.
Will I go back? Will I blog about KSP1? Maybe. If you look back on what I have blogged already, I’ve said most of what I want to say already. I may do more, close out some loose ends in KSP2 while I still have game progression to complete, but honestly it doesn’t look promising, at least from a blogging perspective.
It all very disappointing.
Well, not all. I still encourage people to get KSP1 and a stack of mods.
