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Old 04-20-2012, 01:52 AM   #281
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Old 04-20-2012, 03:51 AM   #282
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Old 04-20-2012, 07:29 PM   #284
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Old 05-15-2012, 02:40 PM   #285
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38 Studios struggles to remain solvent

By Matthew Handrahan




Tue 15 May 2012 7:35am GMT / 3:35am EDT / 12:35am PDT

Local government intervenes to protect $75m loan, admits "tight time-frame" to achieve resolution

Kingdoms of Amalur developer 38 Studios is struggling to stay afloat, forcing local government in Rhode Island to intervene.
According to a report in the Providence Journal, Lincoln Chaffee, Governor of Rhode Island, has been meeting with representatives from the 38 Studios over the last few days in an effort to "protect" the $75 million incentive the state offered to lure the company away from its Massachusetts headquarters.

Precise details of the meetings are still secret, though Chaffee has admitted that he is working under a "tight time-frame" to "keep 38 Studios solvent."

"We're concerned and just doing everything possible to ensure that 38 Studios stays part of the Rhode Island community," Gov. Chafee told WPRI. "We're working on different issues with them.

"It's always been a volatile industry to be in. That's just the risk you take when you get into the business."

The $75m loan was awarded by the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation before Gov. Chaffee took office, and he spoke out against it during his 2010 election campaign. 38 Studios moved to Providence, R.I., in April 2011, pledging to employ 450 people in the area.

According to a disclosure notice obtained by WPRI, 38 Studios had 379 full-time employees spread between its two offices - as well as 34 full-time contractors, 8 interns and 18 listed job openings - as of March 15 this year.
At that point it had received $49.8 million of the loan, all of which is being used to fund the development of its ambitious, and still announced, MMO 'Copernicus'.

However, concerns over the stability of the company are longstanding. Last June, PricewaterhouseCoopers admitted "substantial doubt" over whether 38 Studios would remain solvent. More recently, the company backed out of the E3 Expo.

38 Studios was founded in 2006 by the former baseball player Curt Schilling. It attracted attention with the scale of its ambitions, assembling a crack team - including former Elder Scrolls designer Ken Rolston, comic artist Todd McFarlane and author R. A. Salvatore - to develop a AAA fantasy MMO at a time when the genre appeared to be in decline.

The universe for the MMO was established in 38 Studios first release, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, which was warmly received by critics and performed respectably at market.
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Old 05-15-2012, 03:11 PM   #286
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Can see EA swooping in to play "hero" and buying 38 Studios. Then they will make one more good game and the rest will be terrible.
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Old 05-15-2012, 03:25 PM   #287
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Suppossedly 38 Studios hasn't really hired anyone or come close to the 450 hired mark in RI with the majority of its employees either from the Mass branch or were there before the deal was made with the state.

Even if EA bought the studio, they'd still need to hire 450 people in RI or pay back the loan with penalty fees.
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Old 05-16-2012, 09:16 AM   #288
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Suppossedly 38 Studios hasn't really hired anyone or come close to the 450 hired mark in RI with the majority of its employees either from the Mass branch or were there before the deal was made with the state.

Even if EA bought the studio, they'd still need to hire 450 people in RI or pay back the loan with penalty fees.
Do you really doubt EA would do that?
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Old 05-16-2012, 01:14 PM   #289
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Just picked up this game over the weekend, so I'm doing my part to keep 38 Studios afloat.

Currently going for a Might/Sorcery build with my PC. Just hit level 6 doing the Warsworn quests.
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Old 05-18-2012, 12:33 AM   #290
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38 Studios Skips Payroll in Favor of Paying Back State [UPDATED]

Workers go unpaid as the studio works to make its owed $1.125 million payment to the state of Rhode Island.

By Alex Navarro | May 17, 2012



38 Studios head Curt Schilling being accosted by reporters following yesterday's meeting with the Rhode Island EDC.



Coming on the heels of yesterday's circus-like meeting and press conference regarding the developing situation at 38 Studios, WPRI is reporting that the company is in the process of paying its overdue $1.125 million payment to the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, but is doing so at the expense of its own employees.

Current reports state that 38 skipped payroll this week, leaving the more than 300 full-time employees at the company without a paycheck. In addition, a source has told Joystiq that all temp and contract employees had been let go as of this week.

In the wake of the situation at 38, Keith Stokes, the executive director of the RIEDC since 2010 and architect behind the $75 million loan that brought the studio to the state from Massachusetts, has resigned.
38 Studios still has yet to comment publicly on the situation.

UPDATE: Just when you thought this whole thing couldn't get any worse, WPRI now reports that the check 38 Studios reps hand-delivered to the RIEDC has been returned due to insufficient funds.
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Old 05-18-2012, 01:31 AM   #292
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Rumor is a few people in upper management might have been embezzling some of the funds due to nobody knowing where some of the spent money went to and their next project appears to have been abruptly cancelled but nobody in the studio knows why except its not due to the recent mess.

Edit: Apparently their next project wasn't cancelled after all and was unveiled today
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/38-stu...pernicus/4162/
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Old 12-27-2012, 12:18 PM   #293
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Finally got this and it is pretty f'n sweet..

Kinda a mix between Fable and Dragon Age..
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Old 12-31-2012, 03:06 AM   #294
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The Hit detection was probably the best I've seen in a game before. I hate getting hit by shit that I clearly dodged. Really tragic what happened to the company and the people who made this great game.
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I'm still hoping (against all probability, granted) that there will be a resolution to the situation where we see a new Amalur.

Or an Amalur-like game from the folks behind the first.
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Dunno anything abut it but this game is sweet.. The graphics has grown on me and I absolutely love the Brownies.. Love the factional stuff too..

Gonna go back and read this whole thread now..
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