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The production and eventual success of Overwatch was well-documented as being the result of the production and stillbirth of a previous game known as Titan.In the aftermath of The Walking Deads disastrous failure, Starbreeze came dangerously close to shutting its doors entirely, and would only regain stability after a year of restructuring, selling off most of its assets, and resuming active development for PAYDAY 2 note which had ceased new content releases in anticipation of The Walking Dead.

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In February 2019, Starbreeze had the license to The Walking Dead ripped away, removing the game from digital storefronts and cancelling planned releases on the Playstation 4 and Xbox One.

Two days later, Starbreeze would have their offices raided by police, who arrested at least one person and confiscated multiple computers on suspicion of insider trading. The company would continue to be rocked by bad news throughout the year as the beginning of December saw Starbreeze CEO Bo Andersson leave his post as the company announced it was filing for reconstruction. Expected to sell millions of copies, it fell disastrously short of Starbreeze's expectations and Starbreeze's stock price went into freefall.

When the game released in November 2018, it staggered out as an Obvious Beta that was panned for being riddled with glitches and various online issues, and others criticized the game's pacing and gunplay.

By the end of development, the team had been thoroughly disillusioned about the quality of the game. The team was forced to work up to 100 hours a week during the last months of development to get the game done by the deadline, severely affecting the mental and physical well-being of many working on the game. The showcase at E3 2018 had management assuring the team that reactions to the game were glowingly positive, even as team members saw news and videos showing that actual impressions had been lukewarm at best. On the game itself, producers would make wild demands for features based on the latest games they had seen, such as Far Cry and Dying Light.Starbreeze spent tens of millions on Virtual Reality projects, nearly all of which failed. The release of RAID World War II while Payday 2 was still receiving regular content updates, left many at Starbreeze confused as to why they were competing against their own game, which helped RAID drop to a mere 40 concurrent players within three months of release. Mismanagement plagued the game and the company at large.The game was pushed back to 2018, but that only left the team a single year to build the game, many of whom had no prior experience working with Unreal. Developers begged management to move the game to the proven Unreal game engine, which was finally granted after two years of development on Valhalla. Those who worked with Valhalla had nothing good to say about the engine, calling it 'a piece of shit', 'unworkable' and 'an insane waste of money'. Unfortunately, Valhalla was in a very early stage of development and in no shape to be used, lacking even a function to open files. Development had begun on the Valhalla game engine Starbreeze had purchased in 2015, departing from the aging Diesel game engine previously used in PAYDAY: The Heist and PAYDAY 2.According to several Starbreeze and Overkill developers, Overkill's The Walking Dead had massive troubles behind the scenes.Thankfully, OMORI turned out to be worth the wait, as once it was released on Christmas Day 2020, it earned rave reviews from both backers and players alike. 'Highlights' included a port from RPG Maker VX to RPG Maker MV, which resulted in such catastrophic plugin compatibility issues that a programmer from Enterbrain (the developers of RPG Maker) had to step in to help the team fix the issues, and coupled with outright radio silence on the side of the developers, the prospects appeared grim. After it was funded via Kickstarter, OMORI quickly fell into such a production, lasting 6 whole years enough time for the proposed Nintendo 3DS version to be scrapped in favor of a port to the Nintendo Switch.Adding to this, Obsidian patches constantly broke down the Adventure Pack, pushing the game's release even further, much to gamers' frustration. However, Atari wanted the DLC shipped with a DRM scheme. Neverwinter Nights 2's premium module Mysteries of Westgate didn't take long to develop.

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