Impressive New Xbox Game Loses Its Entire Dev Team After A Month

I did not even know this game existed until now, but queue up the "see, proof GamePass kills games" posters.

I do wonder how bad a game must do to be disapointing if the team was just 19 devs, though (if I read the above correctly).

Unfortunately, this is becoming all too common, studios that disappear right after releasing a game.

And I’d say that the game may not have actually done badly in terms of reception and player numbers, but recouping the development costs of any project, even small ones, has become an incredibly difficult task in an industry overwhelmed by releases and competing with massive forms of entertainment (TikTok, YouTube, Netflix...) that didn’t exist just a few years ago.

It literraly says:
"Please... Do not do this..."
...
Do you think Microbe-soft hears it?

@MinervaX76 It’s not the fault of GamePass. It’s also on PS5 and PC. Steam has been showing less than 400 concurrent players for it.

I imagine the studio took the GP deal because they were in dire straights and needed an injection of guaranteed money.

Whatever the case, I’m about halfway through the game and am absolutely loving it so was devastated to hear this about the devs. It had gotten me wondering what they could achieve with a bigger budget. Won’t have the chance to see that sadly.

I fear the games industry is at a tipping point. Even indie games have Dev cycles of 4+ years.

I read from a GDC interview that a “smash hit” in the indie scene sells roughly 200k. At a 7 year dev cycle, it would be impossible to recoup the cost of development with 200k sold.

And Part of me doubts Luna Abyss sold even that much.

@Boogaloo_Jenkins did this game take 7 years to make!?

If I remember correctly it was a FPS in which you didn't manually aim you pressed a button and it did it for you. It was typical GP filler rubbish. Don't take my word for it check it's position in the most played charts from release and as for Steam reviews there's less than a thousand with currently less than a few dozen players.

Please XBOX remove the AAA titles from GP entirely and just keep the indie reminiscing rubbish for the minority that play them and massively reduce the price.

@LeonR You remember incorrectly then. It isn't just "do it for you" its more like Metroid Prime aiming meets Doom Eternal and Returnal. It is far from reminiscing rubbish, it's actually quite good and reviews also reflect that. This is not the game to throw your GP hatred at. The problem is much more likely marketing for this game made it seem more niche than it was (people like you didn't know what the game was). GP is great for these types of games where people would try it and find out it's good when they wouldn't buy it otherwise. It's PS5 and PC sales that is much more likely killing it along with a very long dev time of 7 years. This decision was made soo quickly, it likely was already going to happen either way due to dev costs.

@LeonR the auto aim/aim assist can be toggled off to be fair. I enjoyed the demo but not enough to buy the game, there so many games releasing now that gamers are becoming much more selective in my opinion.

@Trmn8r No I have a feeling am remembering correctly just press a button when in the direction of an enemy and it locked on........never going to be popular for a FPS as the charts and player counts tell. And it's not GP hatred it's my opinion after just finishing 3 years with GPU that the majority of day one releases are poor to mid fillers. And let's be honest if a game released right now with absolutely no publicity a full on shadow drop but was amazing then social media alone would ensure it got the accolades it deserved. People can't use the excuse these days of releasing at the wrong time or no publicity etc. If a games good it gets players this wasn't and doesn't have any.