True, but if Nightdive get a deal to do it, I guarantee they’ll use KEX like they have for all their other ports.

Usually because the studios and publishers go out of their way to avoid promoting individual developers - it’s seen as bad for business (encourages poaching, among other things).

On the other hand, preserving old games by making sure they’re playable on modern hardware is something I wish more companies cared about.

It’s not a euphemism; redundancy is legally different from being fired, with different protections, compensation, etc.

Can only hope Microsoft has stepped in and freed Toys For Bob - they did great work on Reignited and it was so sad when Activision responded by locking them in the Call of Duty content mines.

PepsiCo owns far more than just Pepsi (Ocean Spray, Tropicana, Aquafina, Lipton, Quaker, Lay’s, Cheetos, and many other brands)

I’d say it still holds some truth - Activision started out as a private company and didn’t go public until 14 years later.

Once a company goes public, it suddenly has to answer to shareholders instead of just its owners, and that’s how any creative vision gets diluted and, eventually, lost completely.

The noun ‘use’, as in ‘this has a specific use’

This. There’s a legal distinction between redundancy and other forms of termination that creates some important practical differences.

You can’t just fire people without cause (e.g. gross misconduct) in the UK; it has to go through a redundancy process, and those affected get a compensation package from the company.

Depends at what stage of development you get the recordings done (although for larger projects it’s likely to be across several sessions).

The later you start the process, the fewer lines you’ll have to toss out. But big studios don’t mind throwing money at recording sessions, so losing 50%+ isn’t that big of a deal as long as there were still some usable results.

Generally, it goes to the US Treasury.

Modders don’t have to run functionality and regression testing, fully localise any new text, pass platform certification, or any of the other hundreds of things that prevent AAA devs from dropping patches whenever they feel like it.

Not saying they couldn’t have had this stuff ready sooner, but comparing it to how quickly modders can release is apples to oranges.

You’re being downvoted because it’s a stupid question. It’s not happening currently in NA; they’re making a comparison to the historical colonization that happened there.