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Microsoft To Close Halo Wars Studio

Posted by Soulskill on from the pack-a-bag dept.

Shacknews reports that Ensemble Studios, developer of the Age of Empires series, will be shut down by Microsoft Game Studios (MGS) as soon as the upcoming Halo Wars title is complete. Microsoft execs said parts the team would continue to work with MGS. Halo Wars is scheduled for early 2009, and Eurogamer took a look at the Halo-styled RTS game last month.

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  1. You're doing it wrong... by tambo · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Wow. Just wow.

    What manager thought it would be a good idea to announce, before the product shipped, that -

    1. the product will essentially have no support beyond v1.0;
    2. any coding glitches or problems will probably never come back to haunt any of the developers; and
    3. some of the developers will be fired as soon as the product ships?

    Doesn't this pretty much guarantee that Halo Wars will be late (delayed by people who don't want to lose their jobs), full of glitches (since devs don't have to worry about the ramifications), and avoided by customers (who will know that the product is DOA?)

    I thought this gaffe was only a software engineering myth. I'm gonna have to bookmark this post for future reference :) ...

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