Commandos-Like Mimimi Games shutting down

[AdamReith]

Hope I can still refund that atrociously ugly pirate game they just put out. I only bought it in the hopes they'd release something appealing next.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Roguey I don't know if there's dangerhair stuff in the latest game, I haven't played it. But Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3 seemed pretty free of it.

 

[Grauken]

You can still get the game to, I don't know, just play it

"Getting" is always and option, I was talking about purchasing and this is always a deliberate decision for me: what I'm getting for it and who gets my money.
The latter part just got a bit problematic.

What a weird way of thinking

 

[Roguey]

Roguey I don't know if there's dangerhair stuff in the latest game, I haven't played it. But Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3 seemed pretty free of it.

Things change.

Mimimi went from

and

to

You have misunderstood me. They went from (masculine Japanese guys and feminine women) and (masculine mostly-white men and feminine women with a token black) to (cartoony prominent strong black woman leader with her stoic and strong female friends and goofy male underlings). Vibe shift.

 

[Fargus]

Their last game looked like fucking woke garbage if anything the typical zoomer coloring on that artwork alone made me puke.

Good riddance.

Roguey I don't know if there's dangerhair stuff in the latest game, I haven't played it. But Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3 seemed pretty free of it.

Desperados 3 already had tons of female gunslingers. The game was alright though.

 

[spectre]

Current-day politics brainrot overreaction again?
The game's only vice in this regard is oversaturation with female characters - the main protagonist is female (and is being slightly annoying, I'll give them that),
the ship is female, but that's a long standing martime tradition, the chief antagonist in also female which makes it a... clamshell party? Whatever's the opposite of a sausagefest.
Is that "woke"? I don't think so. I haven't seen ALL the conversations, but I've yet to see them get preachy, play the victim card for race or gender.

You could argue about there being so many female pirates and none of them being in the kitchen, but I reckon one good look at the cover will tell you that the realism train is long gone
on this one. I also disagree that it's about stronk women with goofy dudebros as sidecaracters. All crewmembers are equally goofy and capable, but if you absolutely want,
you can revive the guys first and only take them on missions and will probably be able to finish the game with no problems.

You can still get the game to, I don't know, just play it

"Getting" is always and option, I was talking about purchasing and this is always a deliberate decision for me: what I'm getting for it and who gets my money.
The latter part just got a bit problematic.

What a weird way of thinking

How is it weird? I want to pay money and I'm asking myself the question: where does it even go?
The money won't support further games from mimimi because the studio is dissolved. Deal is done and is apparently irreversible. They're literally selling their furniture.
They also said in their press release that the team got their bonuses paid out and are apparently all cared for,
so anything I pay doesn't contribute to a higher crack budget to the 3d technican, nor will it be funding the next installement on the lead designer's mercedes.
What follows, my money (as insignificant an amount as it may be) goes to the middlemen. Well fuck those.

 

[catfood]

Their latest game had a she-boon as the main character, things could have only went downhill from here on out, so it's better that they closed the studio to spare us of further ESG cringe shit.

 

[RatTower]

They say that it has become too risky to produce niche games like this.
But over the last couple of years, Shadow Tactics made an estimated 25 million in revenue.
Shadow Gambit was less successful but with an estimated 1.2 million in revenue (since April), it is still in Steam's upper 5%.

I have the feeling that this is part of the general economic downturn in Germany.
It was already expensive to produce there but with consistently high energy prices it probably became unsustainable.

 

[Roguey]

Current-day politics brainrot overreaction again?
The game's only vice in this regard is oversaturation with female characters - the main protagonist is female (and is being slightly annoying, I'll give them that),
the ship is female, but that's a long standing martime tradition, the chief antagonist in also female which makes it a... clamshell party? Whatever's the opposite of a sausagefest.
Is that "woke"? I don't think so. I haven't seen ALL the conversations, but I've yet to see them get preachy, play the victim card for race or gender.

You could argue about there being so many female pirates and none of them being in the kitchen, but I reckon one good look at the cover will tell you that the realism train is long gone
on this one. I also disagree that it's about stronk women with goofy dudebros as sidecaracters. All crewmembers are equally goofy and capable, but if you absolutely want,
you can revive the guys first and only take them on missions and will probably be able to finish the game with no problems.

Impressions are everything. They went from historical games with masculine men and feminine women to mobile-trash-looking fantasy with masculine women and effeminate-looking men. Shadow Tactics had a peak player count of 5037, Desperados III had 6057, Shadow Gambit had 3930. Tens of thousands were repulsed by the concept.

 

[Grauken]

How is it weird? I want to pay money and I'm asking myself the question: where does it even go?

I pay money to get something, who the fuck cares where it ends?

 

[Lady Error]

After seeing this:

Spoiler

Good riddance.

 

[Sunri]

I wonder if they had to add negroes to get the goyverment money to fund the game

 

[cvv]

After seeing this:

Spoiler

Good riddance.

Apparently it's great mechanically tho.

Weird, I used to play Commandos a lot back in the day but when I tried Shadow Tactics a few years ago it didn't click. A very good, quality game but I just wasn't having fun anymore with this genre.

 

[spectre]

So, a bunch of dumdums got filtered by the box art? Sucks to be them.
The game's no planetescape tournament, but it's always funny when it happens.

 

[Toffeli]

Oh well. Only played Desperados 3 but I liked it quite a lot so it is a shame.

 

[Elttharion]

Mixed feelings about this. I had a lot of fun with Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3 and even bought their DLCs at full price at release to support them. Unfortunately I skipped their last game because I dont care for the setting and you cant pay me enough to play a game with a black woman protagonist. I also saw that they race swapped the ginger protagonist in favor of the black woman we ended with and they consulted with 'sensitivity experts' for this game so that also made me decide to make me at best wait for a deep sale. Its better that it ends like this with a couple of good/great games than see they slowly get worse and more pozzed with time.

Spoiler

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Unfortunate.

But as pointed out they seem not to understand who the heck played their games to begin with Shadow Gambit.

 

[Dr1f7]

mama mimimia

 

[Riddler]

They say that it has become too risky to produce niche games like this.
But over the last couple of years, Shadow Tactics made an estimated 25 million in revenue.
Shadow Gambit was less successful but with an estimated 1.2 million in revenue (since April), it is still in Steam's upper 5%.

I have the feeling that this is part of the general economic downturn in Germany.
It was already expensive to produce there but with consistently high energy prices it probably became unsustainable.

I can't imagine the energy prices have much of anything to do with it, it isn't like they run a foundry or a server farm here, it's a game developer.

If anything the issue is probably that they're located in the most expensive city in Germany, and one of the most expensive cities in Europe. Even so, there are clearly more expensive cities that game studios run just fine in.

The simple explanation here is probably that they both expanded and went in the wrong direction for their first self published game in a very precarious and stressful industry. They needed this to be a bit of a hit to secure a revenue stream to fund future games, since their money from their previous successes mostly went to publishers. At least none of them burned out like Leonard Boyarsky.

 

[Lady Error]

Their latest game had a she-boon as the main character, things could have only went downhill from here on out, so it's better that they closed the studio to spare us of further ESG cringe shit.

Criticizing ESG shit makes Infi upset for some reason.

Chris Avellone was right about Infinitron.

 

[Infinitron]

Their latest game had a she-boon as the main character, things could have only went downhill from here on out, so it's better that they closed the studio to spare us of further ESG cringe shit.

Criticizing ESG shit makes Infi upset for some reason.

Chris Avellone was right about Infinitron.

Lol yeah I'm sure Chris Avellone disagrees with me.

Let me be emphatic: FUCK anybody who responded to this thread with "good riddance". You've completely lost the plot.

 

[Falksi]

Sad news, loved him in Austin Powers.

RIP

 

[Lady Error]

Let me be emphatic: FUCK anybody who responded to this thread with "good riddance". You've completely lost the plot.

Let me be emphatic too: FUCK any company that supports and promotes ESG shit.

I'm sure I've completely lost the plot of sucking up to developers, since ESG and wokeness are only "minor issues". Or maybe you do not see them as issues at all.

 

[Fargus]

Pretty sure he doesn't because he's been like that forever. Jews will be jews.

The only thing that upsets me is that all these ESG and useful idiot devs cant perish simultaneously.

 

[:Flash:]

How is it weird? I want to pay money and I'm asking myself the question: where does it even go?
The money won't support further games from mimimi because the studio is dissolved. Deal is done and is apparently irreversible. They're literally selling their furniture.
They also said in their press release that the team got their bonuses paid out and are apparently all cared for,
so anything I pay doesn't contribute to a higher crack budget to the 3d technican, nor will it be funding the next installement on the lead designer's mercedes.
What follows, my money (as insignificant an amount as it may be) goes to the middlemen. Well fuck those.

The money doesn't get stuck in steam, it'd go to the shareholders of the company, probably the founders (+x, depending on circumstances)
Normally what you do is that you let the company continue to exist as an empty shell and collect the revenue. You don't officially wind it down, you just get rid of all expenses.