Scott Tortorice
Senior Member
The great, visionary studio that brought us the incredible STALKER is no more :
Get Out Of Here: GSC Closure “Confirmed”
And here's why:
I can only hope they sold the license to Stalker, preferably to Activision....
Get Out Of Here: GSC Closure “Confirmed”
And here's why:
So the lack of console interest (not surprising considering its lack of CoD heroics) and the lack of interest in its Ukrainian setting by Western publishers killed Stalker 2, and the whole company. Yet more reasons why I am just getting so fed up with video games of late.My friends at GSC believe that the reason for that is failed console publishing deal. GSC couldn't sign any publisher for STALKER 2 on consoles, and GSC wasn't strong enough to do it all by itself. STALKER 2 was going to become PC exlcusive, which isn'ta great future for story-driven game.
Some say that Grigorovich demanded a lot from publishers and his terms were unacceptable, some say that publishers didn't like setting - Eastern European postapocalypse is not that popular outside Europe. I don't know which is true, but guess it is a bit of both.
I can only hope they sold the license to Stalker, preferably to Activision....