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Goodbye Roll7, you deserved so much better
I am stunned this morning to read about the sudden closure of award-winning British studio Roll7 by parent company Take…
But it was barely a blink of an eye ago - November 2023 - I was sitting with studio co-founder John Ribbins, and creative director Andreas Yiannikaris, to talk about 15 years of Roll7 and what was coming next. Ribbins seemed enormously positive - even relieved - when I spoke to him about the kind of stability and security Take-Two had offered since purchasing the company in 2021, and made it sound vastly preferable to the relentless pitching and fight to survive Roll7 had faced as an independent studio. Yet here we are being reminded of the dangers of being part of a big company, and the cold way it can "percentage cut" its vast staff force and reduce people and their work to numbers and little more.
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