After the disappointing sales of the Saints Row Remake, it appears that Volition is no more as Embracer Group has shut it down. Yeap, who would have thought that after such a huge commercial flop, the studio behind it would be shut down?
Saints Row Remake was a game that nobody wanted. Instead of building on what Volition has created with the previous Saints Row games, the team decided to remake the franchise for modern audiences. Not only that but the game released with numerous bugs and performance issues. In fact, Saints Row was one of the worst-optimized PC games of 2022.
In short, the writing was on the wall. Volition tried to polish the game with a huge update in May 2023. However, that patch wasn’t enough to win back the Saints Row fanbase. Well, I guess that’s what you get when you abandon everything that made your franchise stand out from all the other GTA clones.
Truth be told, this isn’t Volition’s first and only flop. Remember Agents of Mayhem? Now that was the first game that put the studio in trouble.
So there you have it, Volition is no more. And while I loved Red Faction and the older Saints Row games, I’m not sure whether a lot of those developers were still present in the studio. It’s sad that a game studio closes but again, this Volition did not feel like the old Volition most of us fell in love with. And that says a lot.
Let’s now hope that other developers won’t fall in this trap of completely changing already established franchises for modern audiences!
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Get woke go…..
Woketards already pretend it never existed or wasn’t woke just like they do with every game that flops DUE TO woke ideology.
What about the games that sells like COD, Balders Gate 3, Diablo 4? It’s embarassing to hear this stuff when time proved that woke is not going away, rather it infected every mainstream franchise.
lets ignore these games to confirm confirmation bias. its not inclusivity what killed this studio. it was just sh*t game which didnt sell. woketards and othertards are both same.
I agree, the error people make is in equating wokeness with bugs and general incompetence, because woke people use their belief system to avoid judgement. Games are woker and more draconian than ever, but the normie refuses to abandon consumerism.
It does not require a surfeit of sagacity to discern that when they hire mentally ill people with blue hair as developers and, concurrently, the imposition of censorial measures is instituted upon the games and the cinema, it stands to reason that the result shall be devoid of both humor and the presence of a well-crafted narrative. Indeed, it is evident that the games and movies of the past, spanning two decades hence, stand as paragons of excellence in stark contrast to contemporary “art”. The abominations of our present-day “art” creations exist, primarily by virtue of the advancements in the technological field over the past two decades.
And movies/shows. Or stock prices. Disney at a nine year low at the moment. Target failed to meet its quarterly projections. Bud Light is in shambles.
What happened to Larian, Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA, Gillette, Pepsi, or any other companies people like you bark about 24/7? Are they broke too?
By the way, what happened to Biden ruining the economy and causing inflation? What happened to the doomsday of rate hikes? Why are inflation, and unemployment so low especially compared to when Trump was in the office?
Could it be that low-IQ school dropout f4ggots like you have no idea what they’re talking about?
The economy is fake since they can manufacture some bs event to halt it like lockdowns, and they are already prepping for a Trump comeback with the drama sorrounding the election and prosecutions. It’s a big soap opera.
“The economy is fake”
Illiterate f4ggot.
For curiosity sake, are you comparing Biden economy against 2020 when everything was closed?
1- Biden was handed a mismanaged economy. Trump handled the Chinese virus like a completely rytarded f4ggot that he is.
2- Conservatives accused Biden of causing inflation because they are a bunch of low IQ dumb kunts.
3-Biden economy doesn’t exist, FTC’s policy remains mostly the same regardless of administration. (A conservative baboon might bring up spending cuts due to his/her low IQ)
4-rate hikes would have happened regardless, but at a faster and bigger rate under Trump to let the demand slowly come back into the market. They love crying about what the left does only to replicate it with a new name.
“3-Biden economy doesn’t exist, FTC’s policy remains mostly the same”
Is that why you deleted the Biden stuff from your previous comment? Lmao, you are even more stupid when larping as a economist.
Previous comment? Stop using drugs you low IQ baboon.
Funny how low IQ brainless people who got hurt by me would upvote any cr4p that another low IQ poor f4ggot vomits.
None of you can even talk due to your severe illiteracy. You need someone to tell me “no, you” so you comfort each other by upvotes.
Pathetic rytards.
I see you use your lying tongue as a last resort, get bent, reggin
I don’t think it’s the drugs, I’m 100 percent sure you either have an extremely low IQ or some sort of mental illness.
I can’t stop laughing at those two dumb grudge holding low IQ n*ggers that upvoted your meth comment.
You can’t even use slurs without the word filter, so much for you being a high IQ …reggin
If I were a poor school dropout loser like you, I’d think my ability to write slurs without censoring comes from my IQ too. Do you remember you thought tagging someone on disgus required IQ? You must have high standards in your country.
Unlike you, i don’t pretend to be smart on the internet. A lot of mental gymnastics so as to not admit you lied.
I don’t have to pretend, The average IQ in Switzerland is one of the highest in the world.
I have a mechanical engineering and a business degree (University of Zürich). I’m still studying for my mathematics degree (University of Amsterdam).
My job and results speak for themselves, you’re just mad because you are a poor low iq n*gger.
You and other third for f4ggots on this site call for bankruptcy of every “woke” company, and your win rate is close to 0, of you course you can’t pretend you’re smart when you’re this stupid.
Check the Biden approval rating. Not that he needs a good approval rating with turd world style elections.
It’s irrelevant.
You’re
LOL… I want what you’re smoking, bud. This is so full of errors, it’s comical. I hope your ignorance and naivety doesn’t lead to you hurting yourself or others, Godspeed!
Stop crying low IQ n*gger.
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Bad low IQ n*gger
You seem rather unhinged. Cut back on the cafe lattes at Starbucks.
Barking woke at everything you see and thinking you’re right the 1000th time is the definition of being unhinged. Keep being a brainless poor n*gger.
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Triggered again ahmed?
BROKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
With a name like yours, I can pretty much guess how far to the right you swing.
Trump lost btw.
oh no, anyway….
Volition were dead for quite some time. Key personel left around THQ debacle.
RIP another good studio lost to woke garbage shifts.
Only franchise from theirs i cared was Freespace 1 and 2.
I had trouble even remembering this game. I just did a quick check and the reports were that it was mediocre as hell and full of bugs. Barely playable in one person’s words.
Another murder game like Flopspoken
and gollum and redfall
Add Shadow Gambit that killed Mimimi games.
All these games have something in common…
AMD sponsorship and FSR
Don’t forget about that Avengers game and Anthem.
Forgotten
AMD sponsorship destroy software houses !
go woke go broke
Saints Row IP will no collect dust until sold to another Publisher
With the same blue haired whales and DIE depts, rinse, repeat.
lmao this dumb f4ggot
What made him stand out? Oh yeah, it’s one of the few people you can reply in these comments…
It applies to almost everyone commenting on this article.
Oh yeah, it’s one of the few people you can reply in these comments…
Get woke go broke…
Go Woke, go Broke as they say.
Meaningless statement since every game nowadays is woke. Just some weeks ago Baldurs Gate 3, which promotes beaustiality and every flavor of woke, sold million of copies.
BG3 has its woke elements but it is not in your face all the time like in this trash “Saints Row” game.
I don’t know, didn’t played any of those games. BG3 was heavily marketed as woke friendly tho’.
Sounds like an excuse. From what i gathered, Saints Row suffers from cringe millenial humour, it’s a buggy mess and generally not fun to play, but does that make the game woke or is it just “guilty by association”? Ok, there’s the multiracial aesthetics which definitely is woke, but then again, Baldurs Gate 3 does have that and much more.
It’s more easy than you think: Saints Row is a broken game, an absolute mess that also was marketed with woke crap (which was a red flag for anyone with a brain that doesn’t live in California)
Baldur’s Gate 3 is allegedly a well-made game of a niche genre like the CRPGs, the marketing for it didn’t have the woke focus that Saints Row game had, even when you can read articles about bear f*cking all over the internet. To me is just the flavor of the month game that got popular in a surprising way considering is a genre that repells casuals, is going to be forgotten in a couple of months.
Broken game not necessarily means woke game, so maybe being broken and buggy was more the reason vor Volition going under than woke stuff itself.
You can place male genitalia and voice on a female body, it has pronouns and the male companions constantly proposition you. That is woke.
That insanity is like only 5% of the game. I know that crap is woke but the rest of the game is very good. Thats why it sold well.
Saints Row was 95% of annoying woke dialogue and bad gameplay, plus all characters ware ugly and annoying as sh@t.
If people had standards, they woudn’t even put 0,0001% of woke stuff in their games. Reminder the game director lectured his own customers for not going along in creating degenerate characters to roleplay as.
Like clockwork, mention BG3 to oppose the multiple failures that the phrase acknoledges when D&G always had a progressive narrative behind it.
So is the fault of Dungeons and Dragons that they made the latest interation similar to an american city, promote beaustiality and so on? You think BG1 and 2 where as woke as BG3? It’s not, even tough the lead writer of the games back then is a f@g himself. Keep the copes coming.
Because the progressive mindset in the early 90’s is exactly the same as the racial-gendered disgusting progressist of today right?. If anything, BG3 has been sabotage by Tumblr for ESG points.
I think you are the one trying to celebrate the success of the degeneracy not so subtilty masked in a popular game.
“Because the progressive mindset in the early 90’s is exactly the same as the racial-gendered disgusting progressist of today right?”
Ehhh… no? I’m not sure what made you think i believe that. One thing could lead to another, but it’s quite clear that 90’s mainstream values are still better than 2023 msm values.
“I think you are the one trying to celebrate the success of the degeneracy not so subtilty masked in a popular game.”
>Larian made a big hit game
>Larian push woke garbage
>Therefore Get Woke, Go broke is false or misleading.
That’s just facts, don’t get offended by it.
No? if anything Larian put a good game first (i don’t know how good it is because i have no interest in playing it) on an IP that for current year lens it has woke elements but always has been progressive at the core. I dunno why you are trying to justify your “exceptions doesn’t make the rule” BS when it doesn’t apply. You can’t get woke when you always have been.
WTF you just admited in the other comment they weren’t always this woke, what are you smoking? If anything Volition seems to be the exception. Don’t get me wrong, i would love if the statement where true, because a LOT of devs would go under until they learned their lesson…
? I said they IP is progressive since the creation but what is considered woke changed since then, therefore you can’t get woke when you always have been woke. Can you read? or do i really need to bring the puppets?
“It was always woke, therefore it’s not woke”
So you are making excuses for a game that is much more woke than Saints Row, just because it sold well, and looking stupid while doing it. And no, the D&D IP was not progressive since it’s creation, just a sword and sorcery setting inspired by Tolkien, they even used to make women weaker than males, because it strived for realism, just like you are striving for sillyness.
If you think BG3 is more woke than Saints Row i have nothing to say to you, you are clueless and you could know that Saints Row is ESG the game just by watching the teaser. The game sold well despise the woke crap because is minimal in comparison with the rest of the content.
Like i said, D&D was always a progressive IP, but back in the 90s it was at least subtle/tolerable and not in your face like the crap of nowadays. I know both of us hate the state of current AAA games because of the woke crap, nobody is making excuses, just looking at reality and reality so far applies the go woke go broke mantra. Saying that BG3 turned woke and sold anyways is ignorant.
But could you at least tell me why SR is worse than BG3 woke wise?
It’s D&D and what is this progressive narrative you are talking about?
Yeah, D&D i was thinking in Dolce and Gabbana.
The cliche of all the races in the world join forces and put aside their differences (everyone is valid to put it in SJW terms) to win over a common enemy. High school crap.
Depends on the implementation.
Press S to spit
*presses S* x 10
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So goes the promised patch for Saints Row 2… So we’re definitely losing a much needed good version for the best episode because the worse episode exists, what a sad situation
Best gaming news of the year, another victory for humanity! These rainbow cult-worshipping subhumans not only deserve to go bankrupt, they deserve to end up living in the streets now, feeding on trash cans.
Now a chance for another red faction game is also in disarray
Hahaaaaa
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*Reboot … not Remake
straight up F#$k those in charge over there at volition HQ…you took a darling gem something precious and F#$Ked it all up. F#$k every single one of them that made the real talent quit then destroyed what should’ve lasted for 100 years. RFG is and always will be one of the best times i’ve ever been given….F#$king love that game.
Any studio out there who is thinking about adding inclusivity and ESG sh*t … DON’T
or you will end up like this studio and the studio who made Forspoken
You’re describing 99.9 percent of the most successful companies in the history of human beings. Stop being a low IQ dumb f4ggot.
That’s like saying the mob protection money is the reason your company is sucessful.
Mother of god you are illiterate as fck.
Without throwing a tantrum, explain to me how ESG policies help companies, if the explanation is on the line of “it helps secure grants from government”, “prevent anti discrimination lawsuits”, “big vulture capitalists like Blackrock demands it” or any similar extortion tactics, you fail.
Everything you put in those quotes sounds extremely childish and rytardd. It tells me I’m going to waste my time here.
“The reason our company is so sucessful is the ESG/DEI policies/regulations we adopted 3 years ago. Our company is 80 years old btw”.
If this site wasn’t full of low IQ rytards who believe in a flat earth, you’d be embarrassing yourself.
I gave you a chance to embarass myself and you ran away like a resentful nerd.
You sound illiterate to anyone who’s got a degree in either finance, business, or economics. You’re not looking anything other than a stupid k*nt to anyone who’s not a poor illiterate loser like yourself.
You sound like a spammer, do you work on a call center in India?
I almost made you quit replying to my posts by not replying back a couple months ago.
You must be desperate for my attention.
Shoo, dirty pajeet.
Just because you’re from Pakistan, it doesn’t mean you’re not as disgusting as Indians to us.
You nutjobs still salty about games catering to an audience other than white people?
While SR22 is surprisingly demanding during the desert sections, I found the game to run overall well enough with FSR2 in both DX12 and Vulkan. Performance has probably improved a lot since launch. DX11 is painfully CPU bound.
Desert sections should be not demanding since there’s nothing to render there, it’s a desert, that’s why games like Mad Max and MGSV (the afghanistan map) where not demanding despite looking good.
well this is not surprising at all. i didnt want to touch the new SR game with a 10 ft pole. at least SR2 works pretty well in emulation recently.
A modder makes a fairly popular mod for Fallout 4 called Grounded Commonwealth that removes woke discourse and aesthetics, multiracialism, etc. And it quickly get banned from all modding sites while gaming mags keeps radio silence so as to not give “bad publicity” or just by being centrist cowards like this site itself.
Then there is the dev from indie game Domina, which was delisted from Steam of all places because he has unfavorable opinions about troons. And then there are people who still think “get woke, go broke”… When non-woke options get derailed from the very start. Gamers either don’t care/make excuses for woke content or are too stupid/young to know any better.
all that tells you is that games are woke because anti woke games get banned. its all fake and forced, woke games are having all the system support and still fail, anti woke games are not even allowed to exist.
There is ZERO incentive for being anti-woke, so get anti-woke, go broke holds more true than get woke, go broke. That’s why there is so much delusion in conservative circles, to the point of embracing feminist movies like Barbie, funny enough.
If you are anti woke you get blacklisted by everything.
Specially by people saying “get woke, go broke”, who doesn’t even aknowledge their struggles. They rather pretend woke is still an outlier rather than the norm.
If all games are woke, that means some will fail, like Saints Row, and some will succeed (and you guys will make excuses like saying BG3 was not “in your face woke”). And people should stop coping saying stuff like “Get Woke Go Broke” if they don’t want to embarass themselves.
its been in early access for a while and people say it wasnt woke and the wokeness appears in the later chapters.
To me its woke and it successful because their previous game was good and baldurs gate was always canadian dnd aka woke lite and dnd is woke these days.
That’s a big issue with gaming, now you can have bait and switch patches changing/adding woke stuff to games who previously didn’t have it.
Stop whining and give us the link, ffs!
search American Krogan Twitter, he provides links there.
Nice and thank you, sir!
Shocking!
“the team decided to remake the franchise for modern audiences.”….
Bwahh Haahhh Hahhh Haaa Haaa !
It brings my heart joy.
I which the “get woke go broke” could be applied to the industry writ large. Microsoft is still around cannibalizing game devs, Sony and every high profile corporation pushing censorship with minor pushback, and they are as woke as it gets.
Best gaming news of the year, another victory for humanity! Hope they end up living in the streets now, feeding on trash cans.
Now just waiting for ubisoft.
For that to happen Tencent would need to be out of the picture, they have bail out Ubi at least 3 times already.
With their current reputation in industry it won’t take long.
Counting their reputation in videogames it won’t take long.
i cant believe they waited to release all the dlcs before picking up the gun and shooting themselves in the face.
How considerate of them…
I wanted a new Red Faction game, with even better physics and visuals…
Shame, we will never get to see that now. Especially after the HORRIBLE Saints Row remake… Their engine was pretty good.
P.s. Why games don’t focus on physics anymore? Like at all? Looking all good, but fake as S H I T.
Something, something Console CPU’s in previous generation being weak
Nice 😂
I liked the third game though. better map i think. 1-3 had very good maps and characters. should have made this one closer to either of those 3 games.
With no more free monies from ESG/Larry Fink, no bail out from Epic, Tencent or Mircrosoft, the sodomites degenerated fiends of D.I.E that converged it killed the host again.
Truth!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
Awesome!
Good.
Get woke, go broke!
Rot In f*king Piss.
So sick of SJW scum f*king ruining everything I love.
Games? Ruined.
Movie franchises like Star Wars? Ruined.
Eat sh*t and die! Go work at McDonald’s where you r**ards belong.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻
Diversity hires make sh*t games. This was self inflicted.
Is that why Calisto Protocol was sh*t? Because I’ve seen that team and I don’t see any “diversity”. You should probably stop repeating this same lazy reason for any thing. It’s much more deeper than that.
Havent played it personally, not that it matters since you answered your own question, dumb a*s sh*t lib… 🙄
So that meant you played Saints Row Remake personally? Because you do know about the diversity hires in that game right? So you knowingly played a diversity hire game, even though you know they are sh*t?… Haha, you’re a fuqin clown 🤡.
Whats with the clown emoji, you cant even f*king read…