WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.484 [CNN intro music] 00:00:01.484 --> 00:00:03.840 Man: "THIS IS CNN BREAKING NEWS" 00:00:03.940 --> 00:00:07.100 SPECIAL NEWS REPORTING! This has just come in. 00:00:07.100 --> 00:00:14.000 The Walking Dead developer, Telltale, hit with devastating layoffs as part of a 'majority studio closure.' 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.540 Telltale games is SHUTTING DOWN! 00:00:16.540 --> 00:00:24.020 I'm Poppy Harlow, and you're watching the special news reported [report] of Pew News. The most trusted news source of all...ᵘⁿᶦᵛᵉʳˢᵉ 00:00:24.020 --> 00:00:34.260 [Pew News intro music] 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:37.440 Thank you for tuning in live on this special news report. 00:00:37.480 --> 00:00:40.520 Telltale Games is ShUtTiN dOWN 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:42.020 They made a statement saying; 00:00:42.020 --> 00:00:49.060 "A small group of 25 employees staying on to fulfill the company's obligations to its board and partners" 00:00:49.060 --> 00:00:54.200 Telltale Games which, of course, has made such popular games, like, 'The Walking Dead' and 'The Wolf Among Us' 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:59.060 and this means a layoff of 225 people 00:00:59.060 --> 00:01:00.520 That's a lotta people. 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:03.920 But they "Will fulfill the obligations to its board and partners." 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:07.400 They JUST released 'Walking Dead: The Final Season', 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:09.880 Episode 2 is supposed to come out next week! 00:01:09.880 --> 00:01:12.280 But apparently, they're not gonna finish it. 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:15.980 We're not gonna get the end of Clementine; the final story. 00:01:15.980 --> 00:01:19.200 Most likely they're not gonna release Episode 3 and 4. 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.860 Uh- what will they release, however, to appease their board and partners? 00:01:23.860 --> 00:01:25.220 MiNeCrEfT 00:01:25.220 --> 00:01:28.520 Yea, that's right, Netflix "Minecraft: The Story" 00:01:28.520 --> 00:01:31.300 At least we will have that. Thank you, Telltale. 00:01:31.300 --> 00:01:36.300 So what happens to everyone that bought The Walking Dead Final Season? 00:01:36.300 --> 00:01:38.380 AEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH no 00:01:38.380 --> 00:01:41.020 A lot of people were very sad and upset about this. 00:01:41.020 --> 00:01:46.820 Obviously, it's a big problem. A lot of people lost their job; that's never something to be celebrated. 00:01:46.820 --> 00:02:01.900 Brandon, who is one of the developers on Telltale said *reads tweet* 00:02:01.900 --> 00:02:04.540 He's not getting even a severage(severance?) package 00:02:04.540 --> 00:02:07.700 people are just let go uh- out of nowhere 00:02:07.700 --> 00:02:16.140 Apparently, people even- uh -relocated cross-country and they were hiring people 2 weeks before this announcement. 00:02:16.140 --> 00:02:17.480 ʰᵒʷ ᶜʳᵃᶻʸ ᶦˢ ᵗʰᵃᵗˀ 00:02:17.480 --> 00:02:19.480 Way to keep people in the dark. 00:02:19.480 --> 00:02:25.820 The good news out of all of this is that a lot of big companies have reached out and said, "Hey, don't worry, we got you." 00:02:25.820 --> 00:02:28.860 Blizzard reached out, "Anyone that is looking for a new job." 00:02:28.860 --> 00:02:30.580 Twitch reached out, same sentiment. 00:02:30.580 --> 00:02:35.580 DICE reached out , Paradox reached out, Epic Games reached out, Naughty Dog made a statement, 00:02:35.580 --> 00:02:38.620 HALO, Ubisoft, PLAYER UNKNOWN 00:02:38.620 --> 00:02:45.140 All these, big, big developing companies are opening their doors and uh- that's great. 00:02:45.140 --> 00:02:49.280 I think- Yes, it sucks that a lot of people got- lost their job, 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:55.080 but if this is how they treat their employees anyway, then I'm sure they'll be better off 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:57.080 I know it sucks now but- 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:00.840 Telltale's Walking Dead: Season One was HUGE for my channel, 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.400 a big chapter for my career, even. 00:03:03.420 --> 00:03:10.320 When we played it, it was one of the most fun things I've ever done because we got to share this amazing experience- 00:03:10.320 --> 00:03:14.620 with a huge pack of people that enjoyed it an equal amount. 00:03:14.620 --> 00:03:16.940 And just sharing that as a group was incredible... 00:03:16.940 --> 00:03:21.080 and being so invested in the characters that in the end you were even crying (oh we were the ones crying, Felix?) 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:24.960 And i think a lot of people were so emotionally invested as well that they did the same thing. 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:27.960 I'm super thankful for that, and i will never forget that. 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:29.700 *stutters* 00:03:29.700 --> 00:03:31.700 I'm so glad I had that experience 00:03:31.700 --> 00:03:34.740 And even Season Two, I thought, was great; I loved it as well. 00:03:34.740 --> 00:03:43.340 as a fan of the- uhh- the series- to see it go down like this doesn't make me sad, it makes me really, really disappointed 00:03:43.380 --> 00:03:49.680 Coz I'm mostly critical of things , not bec- out of nowhere, but because i know they can do better. 00:03:49.700 --> 00:03:51.720 I knew they can do better than this. 00:03:51.720 --> 00:03:54.840 That's why I'm so... I'm upset. I'm pissed off. 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:59.380 Even 2 years ago, when i played The Walking Dead: Michonne, this was my reaction. 00:03:59.380 --> 00:04:00.380 *sigh* 00:04:00.380 --> 00:04:03.000 *music* 00:04:03.060 --> 00:04:09.400 I'm really disappointed; I think you could tell already; very very very very disappointed. 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:10.940 Why was I so disappointed? 00:04:10.940 --> 00:04:16.480 Well because the whole experience was completely lackluster- in -compared with what they did in Season One. 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:20.340 Do I expect them to top what they did originally every single time? 00:04:20.380 --> 00:04:21.540 Absolutely not. 00:04:21.540 --> 00:04:27.060 But to constantly introduce new characters over and over and over, 00:04:27.060 --> 00:04:31.860 to then just be met with an ending that felt like- it -nothing really mattered. 00:04:31.860 --> 00:04:33.700 I- it's upsetting. 00:04:33.700 --> 00:04:36.560 Game of Thrones- I didn't even bother finishing. 00:04:36.580 --> 00:04:41.320 Batman- I didn't even continue playing because I wasn't invested enough. 00:04:41.320 --> 00:04:50.300 They released so many games; two seasons of Minecraft, Walking dead Michonne, Walking dead-all the DLCs, Guardians of the Galaxy 00:04:50.300 --> 00:04:52.540 it ruined your eagerness to play more, 00:04:52.540 --> 00:04:55.460 which is such a shame because they did do really good games. 00:04:55.460 --> 00:05:00.000 And I know it sounds a bit- uhhh -childish to have that sentiment, 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.000 but I think a lot of people agree with it. 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:05.940 They've just made too many games instead of focusing on the really good ones. 00:05:05.940 --> 00:05:09.060 [The] Wolf Among Us was a series a lot of people were excited about; 00:05:09.060 --> 00:05:10.780 that was *five* years ago, 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:14.620 and now we will *never* see it because of all these bad decisions. 00:05:14.620 --> 00:05:17.200 They kept adding new characters to everything. 00:05:17.200 --> 00:05:21.920 How- how many characters from the original season of the walking dead- 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:24.880 which everyone played; so many people played. 00:05:24.880 --> 00:05:29.000 How many are left in the last season, just Season Three. 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:30.920 ONE. It's Clementine. 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:32.920 Everyone else is gone. 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:35.220 How many people lasted from The Walking Dead DLCs 00:05:35.220 --> 00:05:36.040 ZERO. 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:38.520 How many people from Walking Dead: Michonne- 00:05:38.520 --> 00:05:43.380 all those characters that spent so many times trying to pick the right choices for- 00:05:43.380 --> 00:05:46.240 How many of those characters are in Season Three? 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:47.080 NONE 00:05:47.080 --> 00:05:51.380 They just keep giving you more and more characters and after a while, you just don't care. 00:05:51.380 --> 00:05:53.240 Combine that with way too many games, 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:55.980 You-you're just not invested anymore. 00:05:55.980 --> 00:05:59.440 Their engine has not been improved on until now. 00:05:59.440 --> 00:06:04.740 It's such a shame as well because it seems like they're finally picking up their mistakes now, 00:06:04.780 --> 00:06:06.540 when it's clearly too late. 00:06:06.540 --> 00:06:08.540 Their engine is incredibly buggy 00:06:08.540 --> 00:06:11.780 The lip-syncing is terrible, which takes you out of the immersion. 00:06:11.780 --> 00:06:15.100 The graphic will just drop out of nowhere. 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:18.380 You'll see characters appearing in the background an disappearing 00:06:18.380 --> 00:06:21.420 And just- uhh - just awkward movements in general. 00:06:21.420 --> 00:06:22.500 It's just bad. 00:06:22.500 --> 00:06:25.600 And then finally, the illusions of a choice 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:35.420 When you play TWD the first text that appears is, *reads what's on screen* 00:06:35.420 --> 00:06:37.500 This is... not true. 00:06:37.500 --> 00:06:39.680 It's simply not true. 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:48.880 I think most people know by now that when you play through a Telltale game, the ending will be exactly the same, no matter what choices you make. 00:06:48.880 --> 00:06:51.780 But- people didn't know this when they played Season One. 00:06:51.780 --> 00:06:54.160 You had that illusion of that you had a choice. 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:59.260 When it said that, "Clementine feels hurt," and people said "Restart the entire game." 00:06:59.260 --> 00:07:01.000 I think people share that sentiment. 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:07.500 They were like, "I really want to get the best outcome. I really care about these characters, so I'm going to try my best to really pick the best outcome 00:07:07.500 --> 00:07:12.720 But the more games they pump out, the more you realize it's just the same ending no matter what. 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:20.480 And sometimes it was so transparent that you didn't even have to keep playing for more than a second to realize that your choice didn't even matter. 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:25.040 In game: "Do something!" 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:27.040 "Stop!" 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:29.820 "Dammit Zachary, Now who is taking things too far!" 00:07:29.820 --> 00:07:34.400 "What, I didn't- I- I-" "Outside, now" 00:07:34.400 --> 00:07:36.600 Pewds: Well, that was completely pointless. 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:37.960 It made no difference anyway. 00:07:37.960 --> 00:07:43.640 This is a reoccurring theme through Telltale games, and the more you notice it, the more it's impossible to miss. 00:07:43.640 --> 00:07:49.060 Now, Telltale has dealt with this criticism for a long time and a lot of people have different opinions about it. 00:07:49.060 --> 00:07:55.780 Some- from PC Gamer, for example, saying *reads on screen* 00:07:55.780 --> 00:08:02.640 While I saw other articles, previously criticizing telltale, saying that, "Telltale needs to add consequence to out actions, 00:08:02.640 --> 00:08:07.580 so I can sit on the edge of my seat again, and make heart-wrenching decisions that matter. 00:08:07.580 --> 00:08:15.140 We know what actually the majority thinks because now they're shutting down coz not enough people want to buy their games anymore. 00:08:15.140 --> 00:08:18.620 Because people don't feel that same way and engagement with them. 00:08:18.620 --> 00:08:24.720 And we know it's not impossible to execute these interactive choices of [in] games. 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:30.240 We've seen it now in Detroit: Become Human, where how many different outcomes- you get to see all of them. 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.480 You understand that you can play the game very differently 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:39.920 If a character doesn't actually like you- if Hank will remember that- he will actually remember that, 00:08:39.920 --> 00:08:44.000 and it will change the story of the game and the outcome of the ending that you get. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:50.780 So a lot of people had been saying on twitter- blaming let's players for the fact that the company is shutting down, 00:08:50.780 --> 00:08:57.960 which is not true. You have a lot of story games- uhh, being more popular than ever. 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:06.580 You have "Stranger Things," (lmao) for example, which literally saved the company by releasing a game in a very much same style as TWD. 00:09:06.580 --> 00:09:10.140 You have Quantic Dream doing a purely story based game, doing great. 00:09:10.140 --> 00:09:15.800 And even if a game is a story with no interaction whatsoever, like visual novels, 00:09:15.800 --> 00:09:21.640 it will still drive attention to the game and people will still want to experience it purely by themselves. 00:09:21.640 --> 00:09:26.900 I think the people that just decide to watch it aren't gonna buy the game, regardless 00:09:26.900 --> 00:09:31.380 So it doesn't really matter, you're not adding a sale to these people, but you're not taking one away anyway. 00:09:31.380 --> 00:09:34.380 I found TWD through other let's players, 00:09:34.380 --> 00:09:39.140 and I think they know that it was big for their game- that people played it online. 00:09:39.140 --> 00:09:43.060 Some other games apparently were really good, like Batman and Borderlands. 00:09:43.060 --> 00:09:44.840 People said that those were incredible. 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:48.940 But all these bad games like Walking Dead: Michonne just ruins it for everyone. 00:09:48.940 --> 00:09:53.060 And the thing is, they made games before Walking Dead. 00:09:53.060 --> 00:09:55.240 It was just that Walking Dead was their big hit. 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:59.860 That's what really made them take off, but it was also technically their downfall. 00:09:59.860 --> 00:10:03.080 I'm so confident things could've been differently [different]. 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:05.660 And that's why I'm not sad. I'm just disappointed. 00:10:05.660 --> 00:10:11.360 I don't know who makes the decisions in the studio, but it seems like they have all kinds of strange internal conflict. 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:15.480 The former CEO apparently sued Telltale Games or tried to. 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:20.460 The developers saying that they knew about all the issues and all the criticisms that I probably already brought up. 00:10:20.460 --> 00:10:28.260 They tried to do the best, but most likely it's not the developer's fault, it's the people making the decisions of the company, the company itself. 00:10:28.260 --> 00:10:32.040 So I hope all of the developers can find new homes; I'm sure they will. 00:10:32.040 --> 00:10:34.960 It seems like a lot of people reached out, which I'm very happy about. 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:39.360 I'm sad; I'm let down that we won't see the end of Clementine. 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:42.660 I think that's such a... such a shame. 00:10:42.660 --> 00:10:44.040 What a waste. 00:10:44.040 --> 00:10:48.840 I am incredibly thankful for what Walking dead did for my channel- that Telltale Games. 00:10:48.860 --> 00:10:53.080 And it was such a great experience that I'm very very thankful for. 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:58.480 And to everyone that watched me playing those games- Thank you for sharing those memories with me. 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:00.440 I think it was incredible. 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.500 And the ones that experienced it, probably felt the same way. 00:11:03.500 --> 00:11:05.960 And I think that's why I'm so emotionally invested into this. 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.020 That's why I'm so upset even though for most people, they don't even care. 00:11:09.020 --> 00:11:12.600 I don't know. What do you guys think about this? What's your take on it? 00:11:12.620 --> 00:11:17.580 I wanted to summarize everything as good as I can because- uh- that's what I like to do. 00:11:17.580 --> 00:11:20.580 Hope it was enjoyable. I'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye~ 00:11:20.580 --> 00:11:23.840 *outro*