Aspyr trims staff by 50%?

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Aspyr should go out of business completely after making horrible ports. These people haven't even fixed Dark Sector yet even though it has obvious problems from the very start with resolution. Their patch for SWTFU was also a giant mess and that damn game sucks up over 20gig of your hard drive. How about putting the damn cut scenes on the freaking disc next time? That way you'll save space and it'll run considerably better and you'll reduce piracy as well. No game company should ever hire these people ever again. Any game with Aspyr on it equates to low quality.

Lessons learned? Best of luck in your future endeavors guys & for the ones who stay: Start throwing some quality work our way instead of the current piss & you'll get our money to hire your laid off colleagues back in no time.

I did hear the force unleashed wasn't properly optimized, but since the key people that made aspyr what it use to be, I'm thinking that they will shut down. Since they didn't do great besides publishing dreamfall in NA their GBA ports, console to computer ports, I guess this really means the end.

Maybe in the release date, SWTFU was not complete and instead of excuse and postpone the release like anyone would do... they released the game along with the famous frameskip of 10 instead of 60fps! I agree... they should fire anyone who makes decisions in there, but everyone knows that the CEO will not fire himself and the guilt falls always on the small employees.

a company who can't port and makes their own crappy pc games? and they're only laying off employees? didn't grin get shut down in a year? their games weren't winners either but they were better than the pc port of SWTFU. granted, after the first MASSIVE patch, they fixed a lot of the bugs and the game is now playable but its still more quirky and clunky than the 360 version, and there's still load screens between MENUS. but who's really to blame: aspyr or the morons who keep outsourcing to them instead of doing the work themselves? Lucas Arts is no stranger to creating great star wars games for the PC. so why hand the task to aspyr instead of just porting the 360 version to PC? If capcom can get devil may cry 4 AND resident evil 5 on the pc in all their glory, why cant lucas arts do the same with their games? it doesnt make any sense. this is bad business.

Good, I hate Aspyr. They do lousy PC ports for every game I have ever played of theirs.

"Who plays games on the mac?" People who didn't leave apple in the early 90s and people who still play Diablo 2 and Marathon and DOOM3 mods in there sleep. Anywho... Judging by what I've read from users, aspyrs job porting console to windows and Macintosh games hasn't had the positives that they had with porting windows to macintosh back in aspyrs hay day in the late 90s. I remember playing deus ex, and tomb raider II on os 9. Great ports.

Ports don't make money... lesson learned

That's just too bad. I like that company....

Maybe if they bothered to do quality ports, they wouldn't be in this mess? Maybe they should just fire and replace their team leaders and decision makers, who the fault would lie with.

Terrible for Aspyr employees however...But looking the PC port of SWTFU uff is predictable.

Who's Aspyr and 50% job cuts is the most painful think I've heard yet.

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of course that was so predictable to happen

they couldnt even port guitar hero properly, freaking guitar hero that runs fine on a ps2!

Several months wating for a new version of SWTFU for PC, and I get to buy this piece of junk?! Seriously, "lousy port jobs are bad company image", keep that in mind. The problem is that it isn´t the first time that Aspyr screws up BIG TIME.

sorry, but if you make lousy product, you get lousy revenue. that's business for you, especially during the recession, even if loosing your job sucks.

Oh, good, hopefully they go under so they don't get to make anymore half assed ports ever again.

I remember how upset I was back in the early nineties after the bad port of Ultima VI from the IBM to the Amiga platform. I'm just saying, if you're going to port a game, you had better do a good job of it.

Who plays games on the mac? Can't you just boot camp windows and then buy the pc version of it. There is no reason to pay $50 for a game when you can buy the pc version for half the price.

They shouldn't of fired these employees they should be forced replay the "bring down the star destroyer sequence" over and over and over again.

Aspyr was great at the time they made River City Ransom but now they aren't anything.

Force Unleashed was the worst port I have ever played in my life. They should be ashamed.

Never even heard of this developer. They only do ports? Bad ones apparently.

Aspyr should lay off 100% of the staff. All they do is make bad PC ports - they need to go away.

Was a fun game but way to short to be epic..Games shouldnt be 10 hours long im sorry..You spend five years making this game..Looking forward to it you brag about every thing..Its 10 hours..Need more hours for my games..Just was a pure let down..Look at dragon age great game-play made up for graphics, also had long sessions of game..If it had been over 100 hours id have kept the game instead of bringing it back..Cant stand when companies go that rt..

Necrovision... i played the demo, seemed like it had the right idea, but wrong execution... i mean especially in this climate you make sub-par games you are going to lose money; at least they are still in business...