Take-Two has sold Private Division to an unnamed buyer: 'We are top-ten hit makers around here,' and Private Division wasn't making them
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The publisher has also finally confirmed that Intercept Games and Roll7 are in fact closed.
          • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
            31·
            7 months ago

            The main reason why I wanted KSP2 was because of the colony-system. I would love to have a more vanilla experience of building colonies which can build rockets - too many times have I tried it with modded KSP only to see my colony spontaneously disassemble after crashing into terrain upon being within physics range.

        • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
          61·
          7 months ago

          Yes-ish. Updated graphics/reskin was the original idea, but this changed to add some long-wanted features. This is where the problem began: The reskin was built on the old KSP source base, which the original developers have admitted was very difficult to work with.

          When the development changed focus, the feature scope was simply not realistic with so much legacy code getting in the way.

          Worst of all, the devs working on KSP2 were barred from talking to Squad (the original developers) about ANYTHING. No communication about specific parts of the code. No communication about why various approaches to different problems were chosen. Basically due to corporate stupidity that focused on a quick buck through a resin, the developers had to pretty much reinvent the wheel a bunch of times.

          I think the initial corporate plan was a reskin-scam. The development plan involved a lot more than that. These goals were simply incompatible, which is why everything was so delayed and buggy.

          There were some really passionate and talented devs on the team, but they didn’t get what was needed to build what KSP2 could’ve (and should’ve) been.

          ShadowZone made a couple of really good in-depth videos on what went wrong, and this sums it up well: https://youtu.be/NtMA594am4M

      • dontgooglefinderscult@lemmings.world
        12·
        7 months ago

        Ksp2 was not an interactive piece of software when released, exclusively due to lack of funding and a lack of expertise caused by take twos decisions.

        If they actually understood the product and understood what it would take to be produced, they would’ve had a game that the entirety of the ksp community would have bought. Instead they spent more on marketing and sound design than engine work.