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CTOnews.com, September 21 (Xinhua)-- Striking Distance Studios, the developer of Callisto, has played a lot of "magic tricks" before. CTOnews.com reported earlier that the developer openly declared its support for "996" in order to ensure that the game was released on schedule. After the game was launched, the names of many employees were removed from the game thank-you list because of "office politics."

And the quality of the game is not satisfactory, foreign media NeoWin editors "angrily applied for a Steam refund" after playing the Callisto agreement, affected by poor sales, developers made a large number of layoffs in August this year, allegedly laying off 32 employees.

Glen Schofield, co-founder and CEO of Striking Distance Studios, the developer of Callisto, has announced that he will leave the company, along with the chief operating officer and chief financial officer, Bloomberg reported. Steve Papoutsis, the current chief development officer, will take over from him.

The Ganymede Agreement IGN released last year scored 7 points, while GameSpot gave only 5 points. The game's sales figures are not satisfactory. After spending $162 million (CTOnews.com Note: about 1.183 billion yuan) budget, the game did not meet the expected sales of 5 million copies, only 2/5 of the expected sales have been achieved.

The Steam platform's Callisto Agreement was recently rated as "mostly favorable" and all as "mixed". The game Steam is priced at 298 yuan / 398 yuan and supports simplified Chinese subtitles and dubbing.

▲ source Steam platform-related games related reading "publicly announced 996? CEO has now apologized for not jumping votes and making amazing remarks. "

"kick the employees who worked for it off the developer list."

"most of the bad reviews, foreign media NeoWin editors angrily applied for a Steam refund."

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The evaluation of the industry is not good, and the developers have laid off a lot of staff. "

Referenc

'Dead Space' Co-Creator Departs Startup After Newest Game Flops

The Callisto Protocol-IGN

The Callisto Protocol-GameSpot

Callisto Protocol-Steam

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