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BlazeHun
BlazeHun


Adventuring Hero
posted February 16, 2012 05:25 PM

The End of Black Hole Games?

Hungarian press gossip:

www.576.hu

The article says that the studio is not sustainable in its current form.
There is no information about the future of MMH6.
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seingeist
seingeist


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posted February 16, 2012 05:50 PM

Snow.

I'll wait until it graduates up from "gossip" before I fear the worst, but this is extremely unsettling news all the same.  

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Adrius
Adrius


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Stand and fight!
posted February 16, 2012 06:08 PM
Edited by Adrius at 18:09, 16 Feb 2012.

*go google translate*

Quote:
Hungarian sad news front: allegedly terminated in its present form the Black Hole Games.

The strong rumor is treated as a rumor that the game developer has complete concept is no longer sustainable. Armies of Exigo Although, the Warhammer: Mark of Chaos and the recently released can also terribly sophisticated, beautiful, and the strategy worked, but none of them produced as much money and an offer was received that it would keep the studio.

The Black Hole is the phone trying to catch up, with some success.

...

Black Hole is the phone trying to catch up.

**** just got serious.
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OmegaDestroyer
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Fox or Chicken?
posted February 16, 2012 08:09 PM

Damn.  That phone needs to catch up quickly!
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Dark-Whisperer
Dark-Whisperer


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posted February 16, 2012 09:05 PM

THEN WHO WAS PHONE?

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The_Polyglot
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channeling capybara energy
posted February 16, 2012 10:11 PM
Edited by The_Polyglot at 22:17, 16 Feb 2012.

Should I have a look at it?

EDIT: According to the rumor, BH's "concept" of focusing exclusively on game development is no longer a viable one. (Sorry, I don't have time to refine the translation.)

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Tsar-Ivor
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posted February 16, 2012 10:35 PM
Edited by Tsar-Ivor at 21:50, 27 Jun 2012.

"We tried to reach black hole via phone to get them to clarify, so far without luck." Noobs

"Even though the games were a marvel with well constructed strategies, they barely produced any income, not to mention we didn't even receive an offer that could sustain the studio"
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Adrius
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posted February 16, 2012 10:38 PM


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seingeist
seingeist


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posted February 16, 2012 10:44 PM

Quote:
Should I have a look at it?

EDIT: According to the rumor, BH's "concept" of focusing exclusively on game development is no longer a viable one. (Sorry, I don't have time to refine the translation.)


As opposed to what?  To what do they need to widen their focus in order to be viable?

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Adrius
Adrius


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posted February 16, 2012 10:47 PM

Well phone service would be a good start.

(SOMEBODY STOP ME)
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Tsar-Ivor
Tsar-Ivor


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Scourge of God
posted February 16, 2012 10:51 PM
Edited by Tsar-Ivor at 22:57, 16 Feb 2012.

Quote:
Hungarian sad news front: allegedly terminated in its present form the Black Hole Games.

The strong rumor is treated as a rumor that the game developer has complete concept is no longer sustainable. Armies of Exigo Although, the Warhammer: Mark of Chaos and the recently released can also terribly sophisticated, beautiful, and the strategy worked, but none of them produced as much money and an offer was received that it would keep the studio.

The Black Hole is the phone trying to catch up, with some success.



The ****, is this ****?!?!?!




I'm being manipulated but nevermind:

Quote:
Sad news from the Hungarian front: Rumors state that Black Hole will cease to exist in its present form.

According to gossip it's 100% likely that the game-developing concepts can no longer be maintained. Though the Armies of Exigo,  Warhammer: Mark of Chaos and recently released games were a marvel, with well constructed strategies; none of them brought in much income, infact they haven't even received a reasonable offer that could sustain the studio.

We tried to reach black hole via phone to get them to varify this, so far without luck.

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BlazeHun
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posted February 17, 2012 08:28 AM

Quote:
Sad news from the Hungarian front: Rumors state that Black Hole will cease to exist in its present form.

According to gossip it's 100% likely that the game-developing concepts can no longer be maintained. Though the Armies of Exigo,  Warhammer: Mark of Chaos and recently released games were a marvel, with well constructed strategies; none of them brought in much income, infact they haven't even received a reasonable offer that could sustain the studio.

We tried to reach black hole via phone to get them to varify this, so far without luck.



Good translation
I didn't have the time yesterday to carry it out, but I couldn't have done better.
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SKPRIMUS
SKPRIMUS


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posted February 17, 2012 09:00 AM

I'll wait until it graduates up from "gossip" before I fear the best, but this is extremely satisfying news all the same.

Obviously H6 not mentioned because it wasn't "a marvel, with well constructed strategies"???

LOL at how:
"without luck" getting translated to "some success"

<sorry couldn't help with the joking, companies going under is never any good to those directly affected like unpaid work, lies etc...but... the phone, get the phone!>
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avalon00x
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posted February 17, 2012 09:30 AM
Edited by avalon00x at 09:31, 17 Feb 2012.

Quote:

Quote:
Though the Armies of Exigo,  Warhammer: Mark of Chaos and recently released games were a marvel, with well constructed strategies; none of them brought in much income, infact they haven't even received a reasonable offer that could sustain the studio.




oh hell i knew i was right about Warhammer: Mark of Chaos not being to populair. Shame on whomever tried to correct me on that one.

please thq buy homm pleasee pretty?

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seingeist
seingeist


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posted February 17, 2012 09:46 AM

Quote:
I'll wait until it graduates up from "gossip" before I fear the best, but this is extremely satisfying news all the same.

Obviously H6 not mentioned because it wasn't "a marvel, with well constructed strategies"???

LOL at how:
"without luck" getting translated to "some success"

<sorry couldn't help with the joking, companies going under is never any good to those directly affected like unpaid work, lies etc...but... the phone, get the phone!>


I'm much more worried about the HOMM franchise than I am about Black Hole.  One cannot assume that the failure of the original development studio bodes well for the future of MMH6 (and beyond).  

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SKPRIMUS
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posted February 17, 2012 10:21 AM

Quote:
...One cannot assume that the failure of the original development studio bodes well for the future of MMH6 (and beyond).  
why so serious about assumptions?...nothing's ever 100% on future projections on rumours like this
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Zenofex
Zenofex


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posted February 17, 2012 10:22 AM
Edited by Zenofex at 10:41, 17 Feb 2012.

All this comes to confirm that Ubisoft finance Black Hole on the very minimum level, i.e. yet another confirmation for terrible product management. It will be funny if it turns out that they first approved the release of a semi-completed game with many missing features and when it failed to sell well enough, they told Black Hole "sorry, you are not up to the expectations, no extra funds fo ye". Which I doubt by the way - knowing Ubisoft's money-sucking policy, it's quite likely that Black Hole are hired for the expansions as well, not only for the main version (i.e. all these things are parts of the same contract) only to create one full game in several chargeable pieces.

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seingeist
seingeist


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posted February 17, 2012 10:51 AM

Quote:
Quote:
...One cannot assume that the failure of the original development studio bodes well for the future of MMH6 (and beyond).  
why so serious about assumptions?...nothing's ever 100% on future projections on rumours like this


I'm not assuming that it will, I simply meant "in the event that it does...,"  it would probably be very bad for MMH6.  

I wonder why Nival hadn't been tapped to do MMH6?

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Zenofex
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posted February 17, 2012 10:59 AM

If the rumours are true, because their vision of Heroes VI was of a TBS with very little RPG elements which Ubisoft didn't like. Most likely there were money issues involved too.

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Dexter
Dexter


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posted February 17, 2012 11:10 AM

Quote:
If the rumours are true, because their vision of Heroes VI was of a TBS with very little RPG elements which Ubisoft didn't like. Most likely there were money issues involved too.


There were many issues connected with the overall idea on the game (especially concerning the visual style) and its features. Mostly though Nival was rejected as the developer after some misunderstandings with the former producer (the word "former" is quite crucial here).

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