Supreme Cmdr Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Shamelessly ganked from Blues Another group of devs gets the shaft; now that BF2 is completed. quote: DICE NY Closed [June 07, 2005, 10:46 am EDT] This Digital Illusions' Press Release (thanks Frans) announces that DICE is closing their New York offices. DICE New York was the arm of the Swedish developer formed upon the acquisition of Trauma Studios, developers of the Desert Combat modification for Battlefield 1942. According to the announcement, the dozen employees of DICE New York are being offered the opportunity to relocate to Sweden, and that DICE Canada will continue to operate, focusing on expansion packs. The wording of the announcement makes it sound like this move enables DICE to renege on a scheduled payment: Digital Illusions will not pay the supplement payment of 200,000 USD as agreed upon at the time of the acquisition of Trauma Studios. The total payment is thereby 300,000 USD. Following the adjustment for the default of payment of the additional supplement payment, the SEK 1.3m remainder of the value of goodwill is written down during the second quarter of 2005. Other costs of liquidation are diminutive. Update: Gamecloud has a reaction from Frank DeLise of Trauma/DICE NY saying those not relocating to Sweden are being provided with severance packages, and he personally was taking a vacation before returning to game development. Financial translation courtesy of Shacknews quote: Translation: Digital Illusions agreed to pay 500,000$ USD(fire sale if you ask me) to acquire Trauma Studios now they will end up paying $300,000 USD plus a 1.3m SEK goodwill amount which comes to about $174,814USD. total: $474,814. Divided between the 12 of them it comes to about 39k a person. [ 06-14-2005, 12:36 PM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 That JUST SUCKS.... But from the experiences that you have had, it sounds nothing more then typical of the industry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted June 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Thats nuthin'. Read this to see some of the crap that pubs do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TARWMSRK Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 quote: Not too long thereafter I found out that Pet Soccer and Pet Racer sold 15 copies COMBINED, a far cry from the 10 000 - 20 000 projected sales for each one oh my I would have been depressed if I was a dev for those games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted June 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 Joystick weighs in and the hit the nail on the head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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