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Re:Telltale Employees Left Stunned by Company Closure, No Se... by flavmartins on Monday September 24, 2018 @06:35PM (#18062077)
Another article states that only 2 games were actually profitable. Minecraft Story Mode, and one of the Walking Dead games.

All others were failed financially and did not recoup costs.

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Re:Telltale Employees Left Stunned by Company Closure, No Se... by dogma1138 on Monday September 24, 2018 @06:44PM (#18062126)
The GoT game was likely a huge money sink for them, super expensive franchise and they had to pay for the likeness as well as some of the voice acting of some relatively pretty big actors.
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Re:Telltale Employees Left Stunned by Company Closure, No Se... by BlackjackCF on Monday September 24, 2018 @06:46PM (#18062138)
I dunno why I was surprised by this. The company must have been super mismanaged. I know that it's a lot of hard work to put together a game, especially one with an outdated engine, but I'm really surprised that the games Telltale was putting out required such a big crew.
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Re:Telltale Employees Left Stunned by Company Closure, No Se... by baud147258 on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @04:10AM (#18064437)
All the TT games had a lot of voice acting and motion capture, so that'll drive costs up a lot.
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