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Highguard Developer Makes Layoffs Affecting "Most of the Team", Two Weeks After Launch (thisweekinvideogames.com)
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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So unexpected! Who could have thought that making such an unique game would end like this? 

I mean, this is a shooter where people choose a hero with an unique loadout and set of skills and battle with therr team against another team of these heroes.

We could call it... idk... Hero Shooter! I'm sure I haven't seen a game like this before!

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 28 points 1 day ago

Highguard did actually have some unique things that made it stand out like the raiding aspect.

The bigger problem is it was under baked. They released basically a demo after getting featured at the Game Awards instead of taking the time to finish building out the game.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 15 points 1 day ago

The innovation of high guard is so profound that it'll spawn a whole genre of games. They'll copy everything, even the name, but they'll use a thesaurus like high to over and guard to watch, that sort of cheap knock-off style of game you know? But gamers are too savvy for that kind of chump move.