Starhawk dev lays off half its staff

This is a suprise?

I knew this was coming after how poorly Starhawk faired... They shouldn't have let Sony push them into releasing the game early if it was finished it would have done much better :(

Not going to lie Starhawk sucked pretty bad but I still wanted LBI to get 1 more shot at making real games... 

One of my favourite games as was Warhawk. A very misunderstood game. It's not COD or any other shooter i.e run, point, shoot. You have to learn how to play it properly. If you jet pack 50 ft up in the air across an open map of course you're going to get owned. That's why on foot you use terrain. Getting base raped? There's a big enough spawn area to be able to break out and failing that there's plenty of skill choices so you spawn with the right weapons to help yourself. I'm not saying raping isn't an issue but there's plenty of ways to get out of it.

There should, however, be an option to set a rank limit on servers so that noobs can find their feet without getting smashed by high level players. It's that sort of behaviour that can put people off. If I join a game with a lot of noobs I'll always try to take it easy and message people with hints and tips. 

It could be a fantastic game if people gave it a real chance. For a "jump in and play" multiplayer it's a good as any.

Been part of the Starhawk community for ages, way before the thing was officially announced.  When it did come round I got involved in the private beta looking for bugs and all sorts..

Main problem with the game is that half of the time the developers didn't actually listen to the Warhawk veterans, most of the focus was just on nerfing things to make it easier for noobs.

The game is good now (finally) but the support just isn't there.  Sony pretty much failed to even advertise the thing which is a major let down as the publisher.

Could have been huge but never will be, it's a sad state of affairs.

Hearing that the company is going to focus on iOS games just depresses me.. So much talent but shifting to focus on the wrong market.

Console gaming is slowly dying :(

5 hour singleplayer, dosen't sound like it helped this game, among some other problems within the multiplayer mode, I think i am glad i didn't jump for this game 

Starhawk Beta was fantastic. It had actual Starhawk-hosted servers, instead of having to play games hosted on PS3s, which made so much lag.

Seriously, though. Starhawk is such a good game, but the lack of official servers provided by Lightbox is ridiculous. I have stopped playing Starhawk because I can simply get no kills, and I have a pretty good internet connection.

And the new Call of Duty expansion pack will break record sales once more.

24 is actually more than half of 45. 

Curse of Sony? Or just not making good enough games? Bit of both perhaps.

I was most excited about Warhawk before I got my PS3, and I bought Warhawk as soon as I did. I only ever played it once. Just didnt grab me and i've not had a lack of games since owning the PS3.Battlefield 1943 really filled the gap that I thought Warhawk would - a simple, fun multiplayer PSN game - no need to put in a disk.

I'll give Starhawk a go seeing as I have it for free via PSN+ but I'd be surprised if I love it. I do think Sony should look after their developers a bit more though. It seems that Insomniac got a bit of a rough deal - they don't have ownership of their IP and their games never sell as much as they ought to. I don't think the Killzone series has sold as much as it deserves to either.

I kind of feel bad for not buying it, but at the same time I've had to really cut back on my purchases. I used to buy all my games on day 1, but  I realised that by just waiting a year I can get the game for a quarter of the price. I guess I'm not fully supporting the industry, but nowadays I really can't afford to.

I liked Starhawk more than bf3. was hoping to see a sequel on the ps4 with unlimited build cap.

Starhawk is still an unpolished mess to this day.  The game was a big disappointment.

and they will never learn *shakes head*

good games make more money in the long run, bad games make more money ONCE

Putting an online pass on a game thats 30% single player is a great way to fail.

I read about this yesterday as well, in GS forums I was linked, lol.

Anyways, I did enjoy Starhawk, it was truly a fun MP game. It's a shame more people didn't give it a shot. I think a lot of them would have liked it. These days it seems you have to spend more on the marketing of a new IP than actual development if you want to get modern kids attention.

Starhawk was an impulse buy that I bought on the day of its release, and I was surprised that it was a good game. The single-player campaign has great gameplay and a good story. I was hoping for a sequel.

it had good gameplay. but that was about it with starhawk

ios? really? they lay off these people do they can make a mediocre touch game? i hope the all lose there jobs. this is stupid!

Great game, Bad time, stingy PS3 owner!!!

Starhawk??? Lightbox???? Why have I never heard of these? And why should I care?

...Oh. Turns out Sony is ending their agreement. Again, too bad.

I own this game, and it's actually kind of good. Too bad about the layoffs and shift to iOS devices. Nice to know they're still "'very close' with Sony", though.

They do know that making a successful iOS game depends more on dumb luck than anything else, right?

People get laid off after a project is done, nothing new. Especially if it was a failure of a game that is Starhawk. 

Starhawk was a bit of a disappointment for me. Online is so unbalanced and you're either dominating or getting dominated. There's hardly ever a close game. Shame too cause I was a huge Warhawk fan.

Starhawk is a hell of a lot of fun in my opinion! Sad to see all these layoffs happening lately but iOS games are like 98% total garbage.

Its just filled with stunt racing games that are all a bunch of clones of each other, flash games that you can play free on your computer. etc etc...

I have had my iPhone 4 for almost 2 years now and I literally never use the app store and the games I did download can barely entertain me for more than 3 minutes. The only thing I have on there now is Temple Run. 

So sad to see I was a big Warhawk fan played around 300hrs but i still haven't gotten Starhawk yet. The beta  didnt grab me like Warhawk did i still plan on getting it lately this year.

Never played Warhawk and only played the beta for Starhawk and while it was fun it wasn't something I was going to rush out and buy.  Also the fact it is online only does not help.