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Turbulent Creates New Studio In Montreal To Create Worlds For Star Citizen | MMORPG.com
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Turbulent Creates New Studio In Montreal To Create Worlds For Star Citizen | MMORPG.com
Turbulent has been tasked with creating new worlds for Cloud Imperium Games' hyper-ambitious sci-fi MMO, Star Citizen, according to a new press release. The company will create a new studio in Montreal to make this possible.
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So I guess they plan to build worlds for the next five or so years right?
So much for launching by 2025, especially considering their first "mission" is to build out the tools to make it even possible.
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This is in house. Turbulent is part of RSI. When company do create affiliates, there are good reason like:
- Fiscal deduction,
- Talents concentrated in a specific area
- Admin done by another affiliate so no extra middle men costs (Turbulent)
Lots of backers have been critical of how CIG does things btw, not all backers are drooling fans. Many have also walked away over the last 8 years. But you already know this.
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“Over the years, our partnership has grown to encompass not just the development of out-of-game components for CIG’s online platform, but also integrated game services such as the player communication tool, Spectrum, FOIP/VOIP (Face Over Internet Protocol and Voice Over Internet Protocol) and other in-game services."
https://cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/corporate/cloud-imperium-and-turbulent-extend-their-long-running-partnership-through-mutual-investment
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How exactly is the fact that a game company opening another studio and hiring more staff, actively expanding it's workforce to work on it's games along with providing 100+ more jobs in the industry a bad thing?
Seems like just another weak ass excuse to be angry at SC lol. Have you tried reading besides the headlines instead of spawning unicorns?
For the 99% out of the loop:
Turbulent has been working with CIG since 2012. They're a Canadian Web studio based in Montreal and are responsible for all things website/forum infrastructure.
Then they have grown along with CIG and in most recent years have been preparing to branch into game development/art production with CIG.
Montreal has a huge game development scene with a lot of big studios there so a huge pool to recruit from. Ubisoft, EA, Bethesda, Unity all have studios there, also a very healthy indie dev scene.
CIG and Turbulent did some time ago was each bought stakes in each company reinforcing their parternship but remaining independent. I think CIG owns ~25% of Turbulent right now.
What this news report is that they are opening officially a game dev branch there because the opportunity arised.
You've probably read about some Ubisofts studio troubles and dramas with hostages and such. It was in their Montreal studio and they lost a considerable amount of dev's. Guess were they are going to work now.
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Of course not, that's not the JoeGoebbels' method. Sorry about the Godwin - just to point out that there is nothing new or surprising about his approach, as history shows.
I guess the 500+ person dev team just isn't enough to get this done...have to outsource....
My next question is, are some of the worlds going to be paid access?
Someone a few weks ago said something snarky like just don't do business in Canada,small market anyway,well this is again another business setting up shop in Montreal because incentives are better than anywhere else.
I have been saying since forever that if your a small studio or even one that doesn't seemingly know wtf they are doing aka SC Robert's just sub contract your work and it can make your game a LOT better and possibly for a lot cheaper.
I see this as the very first positive step from this studio/Robert's idk who came up with the idea,i somehow doubt it was Robert's.
Me personally i would just seek out whomever setup the template code for Atlas/Ark/DarkNlight/Wild West games and use that template for generating worlds because it is already plenty good enough,far better than anything Cloud Imperium would have ever made.
My final thought,i seem to remeber Robert's showing off his EMPTY planet landing or ship fly over and BOTH himself and fanbois were raving how awesome it looked,i just shook my head in disbelief,well this proves that the studio knows they were NOT doing a good enough job and needed help.
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Sure.Oh and you're probably not aware of the development history of Beyond Good & Evil 2 game which has been in development well before Star Citizen was even announced and still with no Beta/Release date in sight.
Nice unicorns though.
Also, for the record I backed the game and I likely pre-date you.
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RSI owns 25% of Turbulent and they've had a lot of business dealing with them, so from that point of view they're a good partner if you're going to outsource some development.
But I think the question is, why the fuck are RSI outsourcing development of new planets? They've already developed all the procedural generation tools, assets for multiple planets, and complete planets in-house. Additionally Turbulent doesn't have any prior experience from this kind of work, so RSI should be in a much better position to create those new planets themselves or even found a new studio for planet creation themselves instead of outsourcing.
Add to that that RSI burned themselves pretty badly when they outsourced Star Marine, and that RSI is currently in a situation where they can't add more planets to their universe before they finish some major engine updates, and it's really strange decision for them to outsource creation of more planets now.
Number of people working full-time on the game simultaneously and total number of people involved in production are different numbers, because the latter includes huge number of people who do only short contracts, as well as every replacement hired for those who quit during development.
That's not to say there wouldn't be larger dev teams around than the one currently developing Star Citizen.
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