Man, remember Redfall. Another total flop that got its studio axed, just like that Concord mess. The director, Harvey Smith, recently said the whole thing might have gone differently. He claims that the big final patch, update 1.4, basically fixed the game. Launching with that version could have saved Arkane Austin.
He straight-up disagreed with shutting the place down. They had a solid team known for great single-player stuff, forced into making a co-op vampire shooter. That last update finally got the game close to its original vision. Smith thinks that with that start, Redfall might have actually survived, maybe even done okay.
Worse, he hinted they were starting work on a Blade Runner game. The studio closure killed that, and who knows what else. Losing Arkane Austin like that, a team with real pedigree, honestly stings more than some new studio folding. The industry is definitely worse off without them.
He straight-up disagreed with shutting the place down. They had a solid team known for great single-player stuff, forced into making a co-op vampire shooter. That last update finally got the game close to its original vision. Smith thinks that with that start, Redfall might have actually survived, maybe even done okay.
Worse, he hinted they were starting work on a Blade Runner game. The studio closure killed that, and who knows what else. Losing Arkane Austin like that, a team with real pedigree, honestly stings more than some new studio folding. The industry is definitely worse off without them.
