PewDiePie slams TellTale Games for sudden closure YouTube\u2019s most-subscribed creator, Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg, criticized The Walking Dead developers TellTale Games for their sudden closure. The studio released a statement through their Twitter account that announced a \u2018majority studio closure,\u2019 which laid off a total of 225 employees \u2013 reportedly without severance. Just 25 of their crew currently remain, working on Netflix\u2019s Minecraft series. PewDiePie took issue with this shutdown and expressed sympathy for the studio\u2019s employees, some of whom had relocated cross-country for their positions. \u201cHow crazy is that?,\u201d he asked. \u201cWay to keep people in the dark\u2026 yes, it sucks that a lot of people lost their jobs, but if this is how [TellTale] treats their employees anyway, then I\u2019m sure they\u2019re going to be better off.\u201d He also stated that he was \u2018disappointed\u2019 in the Walking Dead series, feeling that the quality of TellTale\u2019s games had gone downhill in recent years. \u201cI\u2019m upset,\u201d he admitted. \u201cI\u2019m pissed off\u2026 they made too many games instead of focusing on their really good ones.\u201d He likewise mourned the death of popular series The Wolf Among Us, stating that fans would never see its return due to \u201cbad decisions.\u201d In addition, Kjellberg criticized the games\u2019 illusion of choice, explaining that while players felt they might have a hand in the games\u2019 outcomes, each TellTale title would end the same way, despite their decisions. He speculated that the reason for TellTale\u2019s shutdown was likely due to this very reason, with players declining to purchase their titles because their actions had no true consequences in-game. \u201cI\u2019m so confident that things could have gone differently.\u201d Many developers have since reached out to offer jobs to TellTale\u2019s laid-off employees, providing a ray of hope in the midst of their unfortunate circumstances \u2013 but the issue remains a sore one, as Pewdiepie has noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PewDiePie slams TellTale Games for sudden closure YouTube\u2019s most-subscribed creator, Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg, criticized The Walking Dead developers TellTale Games for their sudden closure. The studio released a statement through their Twitter account that announced a \u2018majority studio closure,\u2019 which laid off a total of 225 employees \u2013 reportedly without severance. Just 25 of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}