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Atari Shuts Down Legend Entertainment?
MachDelta writes "Yet another talented PC game studio has closed their doors today. Shacknews is reporting that Legend Entertainment, most commonly known for their work on Wheel of Time, Unreal 2, and Unreal 2: XMP, has been shut down by Atari. Though nothing official has been announced by either Legend or Atari, insider reports have confirmed that the sad news is indeed true. Losing Black Isle was hard enough, but now Legend? It raises the question: Who's next?" Update: 01/18 04:34 GMT by S : ShackNews has a messageboard post by Legend designer Glen Dahlgren seeming to confirm the closure.
Yet another talented PC game studio has closed their doors today.
Because they couldn't sell any games.
Shacknews is reporting that Legend Entertainment, most commonly known for their work on Wheel of Time, Unreal 2, and Unreal 2: XMP
They were also most recently cursed at for their uninspired, boring and derivative work on Unreal 2. Anyone who played it hated it. Word of mouth was terrible.
Though nothing official has been announced by either Legend or Atari,
Uh.. because everyone at Legend is at home looking for a new job and Atari are busy closing a studio?
It begs the question: Who's next?"
Whoever makes three games in a row that do not sell - and consistently loose money for the parent company. They will go under. It doesn't matter if the talent is bright.
If management makes enough bad calls, things will implode: WoT should never have been made because only the 2 people who bought the books wanted it, U2 should have been a new direction but wasn't, U2XP was a horrible mistake following a smaller mistake because "Tournament" is the multiplayer Unreal line and they were competing against their own franchise.
Nevertheless, I wish the folk who worked there the best of luck.