Confirmed: Sony Shuttering Zipper Interactive - Farewell

[Trace17]

Originally Posted by Hayabusa85

That just means you don't think for yourself then and care more about general opinion. Saying a studio you like less than another is the best this gen because of what others think is stupid. I couldn't care less if people like shit studios like Bungie just because they might be more popular with some 12 year old Halo fanatics. If a studio is my favorite then it is also the best to me.

Wait, what? I don't even...

Criterion made my favorite GAME of the gen. But I firmly believe they are NOT the best studio this gen. Hot Pursuit was crap. Burnout Crash was crap.

Are you telling me if a studio made your favorite game and then two other pieces of crap, you'd still stay it's the best studio? That's pretty absurd if so. Naughty Dog may not have made my absolute favorite game, but they have provided overall the best slate of games for the PS3. Them and Codemasters are some of my favorite studios, because they don't put out turds (yet). Burnout Paradise is my favorite game, but Criterion have been all over the map this gen (imo).

Santa Monica, Cambridge, Foster and studios like that are just beyond pointless and not needed.

That's gold. FYI, Santa Monica made God of War III, which, in my opinion, is better than anything Zipper has done for the PS3. I know you'll disagree, don't even bother wasting words on it haha.

But Santa Monica has some EXTREMELY talented people, and I would think half the reason so many studios borrow them is for their knowledge and technical prowess. There's nothing wrong with that at all.

[Brandon.]

Originally Posted by chadfl

hate to say it but it's not surprising. The last few games they put out were just horrible in quality. I liked the earlier socom games but socom 4 and mag were just awful.

+1

[Gardenofstone10]

does this mean no more SOCOM games? ::sad face::

[AranhaHunter]

Whenever stuff like this happens, I hope that the people got shuffled to other sony studios and kept their jobs. Same thing that I hoped for when BigBig was shut down. There's actually a guy that posts here who works (worked?) at Zipper. Wish him the best.

[Trace17]

Originally Posted by Gardenofstone10

does this mean no more SOCOM games? ::sad face::

I don't know, does Sony own the IP? I think Slant Six did the PSP socom, I guess we could see it by another dev in the distant future?

Originally Posted by AranhaHunter

Whenever stuff like this happens, I hope that the people got shuffled to other sony studios and kept their jobs. Same thing that I hoped for when BigBig was shut down. There's actually a guy that posts here who works (worked?) at Zipper. Wish him the best.

There is? I didn't know that. Hopefully he lands on his feet. Even if employees don't land within Sony studios hopefully they can go somewhere.

[ThePhantomOak]

Zipper is the epitome of a terrible developer.

They dont listen to their fans (ie, Patches in MAG screwed up things that were not broken, were answers for questions never asked, etc, all while the issues brought up by fans were ignored for months on end - SOCOM4 was a clusterF of fan rage as soon as the beta was started, and they just continued along like it was cool...they were going to get COD fanboys to play )


Pissing off your fans (ie pissing off FANBOYS) by ignoring them is a quick ticket to getting closed down. In the end it is fanboys who pitch your product, reliably buy, etc. not casuals.



I wont miss zipper. The last couple of years it was run like dump by dump.

It is just too bad that ZIPPER had to go, when it should have been the fools who drove it into the ground who got ended.



I hope MAG2 or SOCOM5 will be dumped on another dev that can handle it.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by ThePhantomOak

Zipper is the epitome of a terrible developer.

They dont listen to their fans (ie, Patches in MAG screwed up things that were not broken, were answers for questions never asked, etc, all while the issues brought up by fans were ignored for months on end - SOCOM4 was a clusterF of fan rage as soon as the beta was started, and they just continued along like it was cool...they were going to get COD fanboys to play )


Pissing off your fans (ie pissing off FANBOYS) by ignoring them is a quick ticket to getting closed down. In the end it is fanboys who pitch your product, reliably buy, etc. not casuals.

I wont miss zipper. The last couple of years it was run like dump by dump.

It is just too bad that ZIPPER had to go, when it should have been the fools who drove it into the ground who got ended.

I hope MAG2 or SOCOM5 will be dumped on another dev that can handle it.

I hate to say it but I agree. At one time it was a terrific developer. I think they just got lazy in recent years, which led to the decline in quality of games. I too hope the SOCOM series will rise from the ashes one day with a new developer.