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Bid a Fond Farewell & See the Things That Might Have Been in a Special Stream Event - Gigantic News

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited July 2018 in News & Features Discussion

imageBid a Fond Farewell & See the Things That Might Have Been in a Special Stream Event - Gigantic News

On Tuesday, July 31st, Gigantic will face its final curtain call and go dark forever. In celebration of the passion of the development team and to see some of the

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  • WhiteLanternWhiteLantern Member RarePosts: 3,319
    Hmmm, another game I'd never heard of is closing down. Am I out of touch?
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  • maskedweaselmaskedweasel Member LegendaryPosts: 12,195
    WhiteLantern said:
    Hmmm, another game I'd never heard of is closing down. Am I out of touch?
    I wouldn't say out of the loop, but I was actually interested in this game ,it looked pretty cool.
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  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,939
    WhiteLantern said:
    Hmmm, another game I'd never heard of is closing down. Am I out of touch?
    possibly, I mean, I've heard of gigantic but also knew they were having problems. Maybe others didn't know about it and that's the crux of their issue.
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  • SiphaedSiphaed Member RarePosts: 1,114

    WhiteLantern said:

    Hmmm, another game I'd never heard of is closing down. Am I out of touch?





    Yes, yes you are. It was partnered with Microsoft as the first "requires Win 10" game on PC. A huge debacle came from that alone. Then they made it not require through a service of some kind....delays ensued on the most part of the game...maps were too large and travel time too much, on top of overly long matches. The game's design eventually killed itself off in a time of Battleground games that have matches lasting 5 minutes or less vs. 45+ minutes for a Gigantic one.
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  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,061
    edited July 2018
    Gigantic just came two years too late. Had it launched significantly before Overwatch, it might have been a hit. Unfortunately, due to a bad deal with Microsoft and other financial issues, Gigantic was massively delayed and valuable development resources that could have been spent making a bigger game were wasted on Windows 10 porting and exclusivity, an early XBox One port, and then Arc support. 

    I feel bad for Motiva. They had a great idea and got fucked at every step along the way.
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  • rojoArcueidrojoArcueid Member EpicPosts: 10,722
    edited July 2018
    Once Blizzard joins a particular genre, everything that comes out afterwards face imminent death.

    We have seen it with post WoW mmos, post Diablo ARPGs, post Hearthstone card games, and now post Overwatch hero shooters.

    I don't even know how to feel about this anymore. It almost looks like every modern online game directly competes with Blizzard in some way.

    I would think if Blizzard joins battle royale it would take a massive chunk from Fortnite's playerbase/profit as well.

    My thoughts.

    EDIT: whatever happened to creativity...
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  • KiwiHypeKiwiHype Member UncommonPosts: 233
    Games closing always make me sad, I loved being in this game the first time and a few times after that regretting now I hadn't stuck it out to see it succeed. I hope everyone from the studio land on their feet. All the best to all of them.
  • VerenathVerenath Member UncommonPosts: 61

    rojoArcueid said:

    Once Blizzard joins a particular genre, everything that comes out afterwards face imminent death.

    We have seen it with post WoW mmos, post Diablo ARPGs, post Hearthstone card games, and now post Overwatch hero shooters.

    I don't even know how to feel about this anymore. It almost looks like every modern online game directly competes with Blizzard in some way.

    I would think if Blizzard joins battle royale it would take a massive chunk from Fortnite's playerbase/profit as well.

    My thoughts.

    EDIT: whatever happened to creativity...



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  • ScorchienScorchien Member LegendaryPosts: 8,914
    edited July 2018
    Once Blizzard joins a particular genre, everything that comes out afterwards face imminent death.

    We have seen it with post WoW mmos, post Diablo ARPGs, post Hearthstone card games, and now post Overwatch hero shooters.

    I don't even know how to feel about this anymore. It almost looks like every modern online game directly competes with Blizzard in some way.

    I would think if Blizzard joins battle royale it would take a massive chunk from Fortnite's playerbase/profit as well.

    My thoughts.

    EDIT: whatever happened to creativity...
    lol Thats coming ...  FOrtnite should get all while they can , a Battle Royale from Blizz is coming .. Sooner than you may think
  • SabracSabrac Member UncommonPosts: 138
    edited July 2018
    This might add a bit more of context on what happened with this game.

  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,061
    edited July 2018
    Verenath said:


    Once Blizzard joins a particular genre, everything that comes out afterwards face imminent death.

    We have seen it with post WoW mmos, post Diablo ARPGs, post Hearthstone card games, and now post Overwatch hero shooters.

    I don't even know how to feel about this anymore. It almost looks like every modern online game directly competes with Blizzard in some way.

    I would think if Blizzard joins battle royale it would take a massive chunk from Fortnite's playerbase/profit as well.

    My thoughts.

    EDIT: whatever happened to creativity...



    Path of Exile.
    Let's be honest. That only happened because Blizzard's long term support for Diablo 3 has been an embarassment. It's kind of easy to dethrone the champ when the champ is sitting on the couch eating nachos and shitting himself.
  • XingbairongXingbairong Member RarePosts: 927

    Aeander said:


    Verenath said:





    Once Blizzard joins a particular genre, everything that comes out afterwards face imminent death.

    We have seen it with post WoW mmos, post Diablo ARPGs, post Hearthstone card games, and now post Overwatch hero shooters.

    I don't even know how to feel about this anymore. It almost looks like every modern online game directly competes with Blizzard in some way.

    I would think if Blizzard joins battle royale it would take a massive chunk from Fortnite's playerbase/profit as well.

    My thoughts.

    EDIT: whatever happened to creativity...






    Path of Exile.


    Let's be honest. That only happened because Blizzard's long term support for Diablo 3 has been an embarassment. It's kind of easy to dethrone the champ when the champ is sitting on the couch eating nachos and shitting himself.



    Well if we have to be honest the "champ" isn't even in the same league with PoE. Even if they spent more resources on D3 I doubt that it would've been better simply because everything D3 have to offer is mediocre when you compared to what PoE have to offer and btw this is coming from a guy who has been living and breathing "Blizzard" daily since Warcraft III Reign of Chaos came out. I literally have at most 20-30 days of not logging in a Blizzard game for the past 16-17 years. No matter how much I like Blizzard I can never say that D3 is even remotely close to PoE. D3 is like the $#%^&@ed cousin of PoE in the ARPG genre.
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  • XendyouXendyou Member CommonPosts: 1
    To be honest I was very excited and followed this game during development. I watched the conferences were they would introduce the team and I would constantly visit the website and would check my emails to see who latest playable characters were. Then all of a sudden they said it was windows 10 exclusive, and that's when I had to say goodbye. At the time I was happily using windows 7 and I just felt that it was unnecessary for me to upgrade my OS just for one game. I thought it was some sales pitch for Microsoft and it just irritated me. On top of that it took foreverrrrr to be released. Farewell Gigantic, you will be missed and I hope this will be a learning experience for future developers.
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