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Bizarre Creations on the Verge of Closing
by Steve Watts, Jan 19, 2011 8:00am PSTAfter searching for a buyer, Activision has issued a recommendation for closure to Bizarre Creations, which the studio reportedly plans to accept. Develop reports that Activision has been searching for a buyer since November, but was unable to find one.
"I want to be clear, our first choice was to try and keep this group together and find a buyer for the studio," said Coddy Johnson, Activision Worldwide Studios' chief operating officer. "This decision comes after a few months of exhausted examination and a number of different options across the board." Johnson says the company is offering displaced employees "counseling, external placement services and external career fairs."
The studio was offered for sale in November after disappointing sales of Blur. At the time, an anonymous source claimed that multiple companies were interested in purchasing Bizarre. Johnson now says that they've "explored a lot of leads," but has "not been able to find any interested parties."
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Next thing you'll know, we'll hear word how a bunch of ex-Bizarre employees are forming their own developer and how they're working on a racer. If they had a sense of humor, they'd call themselves, "Absolutely Normal, Inc." Because that'd just be bizarre.
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I think publisher execs need a new policy. Every time they buy a studio and wreck it, some exec has to cut off a testicle. At least after awhile these people will stop breeding.
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They gave up way too soon.
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There is no room for ANYTHING NOT FPS! and if shit don't sell 1000000000000000000000 copies then it fails.
To be honest, CEO need to lower their salaries, visionaries need to take their place since this is about creating not bottom lines and give some of these large profits back to the programmers which are the brains and labor of your projects. Without them you cant afford your toupée Bobby.
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While sales weren't great I wish companies weren't so blind to the fact that the game itself was great and that if they had put more effort into marketing and timing of release it could've done much better.
Bizarre Creations made some great racing games in their time it would be a utter shame and a huge loss to the gaming community if they are disbanded.
Its so sad I'll never see a Blur 2 it would've been great.
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