Former employees of Blizzard and Epic Games establish new game studio – Gaming – News

Then what should they join? At Microsoft, or at Amazon? Wherever you let yourself be hired, whether or not with a contract without an end date, the chance that you have the say and your creative plans will be picked up to make a new game are almost 0.0. In addition, you should not forget that if you would and even if you are allowed to make your game and it is not stopped by the company in time, you will still have to adhere to all kinds of rules and restrictions. Think of the engine that can be used, what does and does not “fit” within the policy of the game studio and the publisher, etc, etc …

The chance that as an independent studio you will be limited in your creative process is a lot smaller. If the product is good enough you will always find a publisher and if there is no publisher who wants it, or they all want to see changes that you do not want to make, you can always go full independent and publish the game yourself via steam for example.
There are plenty of game studios that have achieved a lot of success in this way, I am thinking of the people behind prison architect, FTL, Factorio, but also Minecraft and so on.

I think it is very good that new game studios are added all the time because that also means that new unproven games get a chance.
Every year a need for speed, a fifa, a far cry, a tomb raider, watchdogs, nfl, call of duty, nba, the sims, assassins creed, etc, etc, etc They are all fun games and so on. at some point you want to see something new again. And that is exactly what these small studios are so good at. Building a huge game that costs hundreds of millions to develop is great but that kind of money is not there for new ideas, just for almost guaranteed sales successes.

I think you may not know the market that well yet and are therefore afraid that this talent will be lost. The greenhouse is certainly present, but if a new concept is brought up that is different from what is currently on the market and still fun, then that would be great. Look at other small studios that did that with games like Wolfenstein 3D, Grand Theft Auro, The Need For Speed, DeusEx, Civilization and so on. Those were all small studios that brought something new to the market with a limited budget that became a huge success and created whole new types of games.
Precisely for that reason, these kinds of new studios are very good for the games market, otherwise you will only see the same games every year until you are really sick of it. (I can no longer see CoD, AC or Sims in means, they are all identical games with very little new or different stuff in there that a reskin and slightly different animations here and there)

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