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7:51 : XO LTE 91% Video Games: Nintendo Switch 2 Delayed EA Layoffs Release date kept getting pushed back. Staff members sometimes waited weeks or months for Hill, the studio's perfectionist co-founder and director of the game, to review their work, said the people familiar, creating a bottleneck that further slowed development. He scrapped big chunks of the script and struggled to convey his evolving ideas, they said, confessing that he hadn't spent much time with competing games such as Destiny. The constant delays hurt morale and led staff to fret that they were discarding too much and failing to make real progress. At one point, Hill pitched an elaborate system of vehicles that would allow players to deck out cars with weapons and navigate through the game's alien-infested streets. But each of the four playable characters were already outfitted with modes of traveling, leading to more doubts among staffers. Why, they wondered, would players using Deadshot or King Shark bother with a motorcycle when they could just soar through the air? After This article was gifted to you by a Bloomberg subscriber! To explore more, Create an account or Sign in A

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During the early days, the studio kept its work on Suicide Squad a secret, even from potential hires. Several people who came on board during this era said they were surprised when they first arrived at the offices to learn that they would be working on a multiplayer game, not at all what Rocksteady was known for. Many would depart as a result. Over time, the leaders' vision kept morphing, most notably switching from an emphasis on melee combat to heavily focusing on guns. The change left some staff members wondering why protagonists such as Captain Boomerang, known for fighting with his namesake weapon, would suddenly pivot to gunplay. This article was gifted to you by a Bloomberg * subscriber! To explore more, Create an account or Sign in
7:49: X LTE 91% 'Suicide Squad, War... Post : bloomberg.com Video Games: Nintendo Switch 2 Delayed EA Layoffs the company's dozen video-game studios. Founded in London in 2004, Rocksteady had grown into an industry darling thanks to Batman: Arkham, a series of games that was revered by critics and sold millions of copies. Following Rocksteady's third and final installment, which came out in 2015, the studio's co-founders Jamie Walker and Sefton Hill, eager to do something different, started working on a prototype of an original multiplayer puzzle-solving game, codenamed Stones. Around the end of 2016, Walker and Hill told their staff there'd been a change of plans. Stones was out. Suicide Squad was in. According to people who attended the meetings, Hill explained that he saw it as a better opportunity than making something new from scratch and that the company hoped to release the game in 2019 or 2020. (Walker and Hill declined requests to be interviewed for this story.) This article was gifted to you by a Bloomberg subscriber! To explore more, Create an account or Sign in A
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