Quarto
Unknown Enemy
So, the news just broke that Disney is shutting down Junction Point. Warren Spector is out of a job, and says he doesn't yet know what will come next
It's certainly always sad when that happens, although I suppose it was that time - he has joked in the past that after about seven years at a company, he gets an itch to move on. In this case, it was eight years, so he must really have been itching in the end!
What I really find myself wondering, though, is whether we'll end up seeing Warren Spector working together with Chris Roberts again. Granted, I'm not sure what that would accomplish exactly - Warren Spector was never that hugely involved in the Wing Commander series, and his ideas were always fantastic enough that he simply deserves to be making his own games instead of playing second fiddle on someone else's project.
And yet, I can't help hoping that - well, something - will happen. That somehow, all those Origin guys will end up - if not working at the same company, at least cooperating to help each other out in their projects.
It's certainly always sad when that happens, although I suppose it was that time - he has joked in the past that after about seven years at a company, he gets an itch to move on. In this case, it was eight years, so he must really have been itching in the end!
What I really find myself wondering, though, is whether we'll end up seeing Warren Spector working together with Chris Roberts again. Granted, I'm not sure what that would accomplish exactly - Warren Spector was never that hugely involved in the Wing Commander series, and his ideas were always fantastic enough that he simply deserves to be making his own games instead of playing second fiddle on someone else's project.
And yet, I can't help hoping that - well, something - will happen. That somehow, all those Origin guys will end up - if not working at the same company, at least cooperating to help each other out in their projects.