Saints Row Dev Moved to Gearbox Following Sport’s Poor Reception

The Saints Row developer, Volition, has been moved from Deep Silver to Gearbox Leisure following the sport’s poor reception. The goal of the interior switch, the primary for dad or mum firm Embracer Group, is to make use of the experience of Gearbox to “create future success at Volition” each with Saints Row and future video games.

Saints Row shall be moved to Gearbox

Transferring ahead, the Saints Row developer shall be moved from its present function as a Deep Silver studio to a brand new function inside Gearbox Leisure’s group. It’s because Gearbox “has all of the instruments, together with an skilled administration crew within the US, to create future success at Volition.” This may embody future DLC, akin to that included inside the sport’s Growth Go, in addition to future video games from the studio.

Saints Row was launched in August to a polarizing reception, one thing with which Embracer’s CEO Lars Wingefors was not glad. Volition has since been “working arduous to enhance the participant expertise” with updates and free DLC, together with the Shiny Future replace that included greater than 200 bug fixes and gameplay enhancements like PS5 Haptic Suggestions. Regardless of this, the sport has not met “the total expectations” of the administration crew, Embracer mentioned of their newest earnings report.