Dew dew dew, dew dew, another one bites the dust..........

Have we really dropped so low that we're now speculating on why people leave game studios? Sorry to say this but people's careers are none of our damn business. E.g. Col Rodger (DriveClub game director) left Evolution Studios because his son was diagnosed with a life threatening disease and we wanted to be closer to home. He DID NOT need to tell people that and I feel sorry for him. It's time we step away from these toxic discussions because it's quite insulting to the people involved.

Case in point - At least half a team at SSM was canned yet no one seems to give a f--- about them. 5 people at ND > 50 people at SSM. ND, dying. SSM, just fine. Give me a break and end this s---.

Naughty Dog seems to have a problem retaining its talent, I'm guessing with the success of Naughty Dog's games that employees have been putting themselves on the market looking for competitive salaries, looks like Naughty Dog doesn't want to pay the demand to keep them there. Maybe with people jumping ship lately has caused others to worry if they should stay on board and build their reputation around the studios's success or leave before everyone else before their talent and fame regresses to that of a has been. Maybe they should offer better employee incentives and competitive salaries.

Good move by these devs abandoning this flop.

Everyone that reacts in this thread?

Naughty Dog won't be the same.

@ReadingRainbow4 said:

@GrenadeLauncher said:

@indigenous_euphoria said:

@GrenadeLauncher said:

Worked on TLOU, quit after it finished, by that point UC4 was two years in development. I was unaware development staff were contracted to studios for life.

Imagine if MS or EA had a dev studio as good as Naughty Dog, they might get this much attention on their personnel turnover.

MS does have studios as good as Naughty Dog imo.

I'd like to hear their names, lol.

343 and Rare

I imagine that could provide more original gameplay with some help of the community than last of corridor and uncorridor.

Rare hasn't been important since the Nintendo days....

oh no!!!

where will they ever find another guy that can design a brown haired white guy for a game???