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The entire staff of beloved game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

And now when you buy their games none of moneys will go to the actual devs??
(Or do they get royalties?)

Arr, what a shitty system we built for ourselves.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Annapurna was a publisher team, not a dev team (that published a lot of indie teams' games). I'm not entirely sure how this affects the devs though since I'm in general software development and not game development.

When Warner Bros shut down Adult Swim's game publishing team a few months ago, they did at least give publishing rights back to the original devs so something similar might end up happening here.

That being said it's also possible that all of the games Annapurna published get put in licensing limbo and the original devs get screwed over by this if the Annapurna parent company doesn't want to give up their publishing rights.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The Annapurna Interactive entity still exists and still has contracts with developers and platform owners.

What's happened is that all their staff left. People have been moved over from other Annapurna divisions in an effort to keep things running but its likely a lot of institutional knowledge has been lost.

If I was a developer with a title being managed by them I would be very concerned for its future.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

Oh, I didn't know that, thx!