Telltale Has Laid Off More Of Its Remaining Staff

Wow. Didnt expect Telltale would go like this. The walking dead S1 and some other games ( I liked TWAU, GoT, Borderlands first episode... ) were amazing.

After the first wave of lay offs I tried to play through the first segment of the Batman series and quickly remembered why I don’t like tell tale games. Their audio in the games were off and animations seemed rigid and ultimately what you did didn’t really matter. It was a nice format from the start, unfortunately the games didn’t really change. May a better kind of choose your own story game company take its place.

This is just another Zynga story. Hoping too much from simple point and click games that has zero replay value and shabby production values.

They had it coming for a long while. I have 2/3 games sitting on my PS4 that I got free as part of PS plus, but even after downloading them, I didn't even bother to load them for once.

That's too bad. I loved some of those Telltale games. They had a pretty unique approach and style. Wish they could have finished up their last Walking Dead game. Doesn't seem likely to happen now.

I love how they stole this from reddit, but didn't read the comment section to note that it was only her team and not everyone.

Way to repost stuff and not check any sources gamespot.

https://twitter.com/anameformyself/status/1047975335235481600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

I never liked Telltale games especially since they release their games into separate parts, they obviously don't care for their player base.

Laid off, or not run along now and add it to your resume. 5 years a telltale games, but I was laid off, non the less you still worked.

Probably swapped a skeleton crew for a zombie one!

I wonder if anyone will come out with a Tell Tale game about, Tell Tale games.

@Utnayan: I highly doubt that Battlefield 5 would be a hardsell.

@Utnayan: Andromeda flopped because it was a bad game. Not because of politics.

ironic how they picked up old IPs like sam and max / monkey island from their deaths of lucasarts only to be destroyed once moreeeee........ obviously if you want to steer clear from the waves you stay out of the industry hahaha. capitalism at its finest. good luck to all and to all a steady income!

Gamespot, you are joking, right? Check this-https://twitter.com/anameformyself/status/1047975335235481600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Crazy.

Not sure how you have the rights to those IPs--The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and Batman, in addition to some of your own and others--and not make money off of them. Especially when you are reinvesting very little back into your company.

well I had held out hope that we'd get the last 2 episodes in some miracle but with them laying off the remaining crew they had, I guess that pretty much means the studio is finished..

wonder if any of the major players will form up their own studio and continue to make good story driven games.. one can only hope something positive comes from all this negative..

Sad but never surprised at the greed of corporate America. I can GUARANTEE that while the TTG worker bee employees got kicked out with nothing, the fat cats up top in the C-suite all got golden parachutes.

Also, anyone who wants to work in the gaming industry needs to reevaluate their lives. Game developers are overworked, underpaid, underappreciated, the benefits stink, and getting let go with nothing is very common once a big project goes out the door.

Did they not have mobile ports? I would think that interactive "non-game" stories would have a broad audience on phones\tablets.

Did the studio file for bankruptcy or did they say they never go up to chapter 7?

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 80-hour crunch weeks. Mismanagement of some of the industry’s top talent. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

Stories like this are all too common nowadays. I don't think there are many game/entertainment companies that don't subject their employees to grueling hours, poor management, and unpaid overtime. All while the company excuses this by saying "their employees are doing what they love therefore abuse is OK." This trend in business needs to end.

The court case probably killed it for good.

Just pitiful.

sad.

It was clear the remaining people were just to support the launch of their last Walking Dead episode, not to stay on and make the rest. There's no money left.....