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Volition will “become part of Gearbox” after critical reception to Saints RowIt apparently met financial expectations
It apparently met financial expectations
This year’sSaints Rowreboot met financial expectations, according to the interim report of mega-publisher Embracer. The same can’t be said of the critical response, however, so developers Volition “will transition to become part of Gearbox.”
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“The reception ofSaints Rowdid not meet the full expectations and left the fanbase partially polarized,” according to Embracer’sQ2 interim report, published today. “The game development studio, Volition, has been working hard to improve the player experience.”
“Financially, Saints Row has performed in line with management expectations in the quarter. Going forward, Volition will transition to become part of Gearbox which has all the tools, including an experienced management team in the US, to create future success at Volition.”
“This is the first internal group transfer where we transfer a major studio between operative groups, but it is not necessarily the last,” says the report.
Saints Row received a rough reception from fans who didn’t like that it jettisoned popular characters from previous games in the series (and that it had modern haircuts in it). It received a rough reception from critics, too, including us in ourSaints Row review, in which Alice found it fun but also purposeless, bland, and a bit janky.
Embracer have been on an acquisition spree over the past several years, most recently picking up all of Square Enix’s western studios, including the developers ofDeus Ex: Human Revolutionand the Tomb Raider trilogy reboot. Earlier this month they closed one of those studios,the developers of Hitman Go.
