Immediately writer Deep Silver took to X (previously Twitter) to comply with up on the announcement of the closure of Saints Row developer Volition.
The writer talked about (maybe with doubtful timing) that the Saints Row and Crimson Faction IPs will dwell on underneath the umbrella of its mum or dad firm, Plaion.
Our ideas exit to everybody at @DSVolition, previous and current. We’re extremely grateful for his or her unforgettable work on Saints Row and Crimson Faction, whose IPs will dwell on at @PLAION
In the intervening time, Volition itself launched an in depth assertion on its closure to say farewell to the followers, which you’ll learn beneath in its entirety.
Thirty years of creating video games. There are solely a handful of studios within the business which have been round for 30 years, and we took lots of delight over Volition being one in all them. Volition has been round lengthy sufficient that some people neglect what we made, however they definitely know our video games. Refrains comparable to, “Volition made Descent?!”, or “Volition made FreeSpace?!”, or “Volition made that Summoner RPG with that hilarious video?!” will not be unusual. Typically its simpler to recollect the video games greater than the studio that constructed them, particularly for these which have been round so long as we have now. However all good issues come to an finish, and so it’s with Volition. After 30 years Volition has closed, and we wished to say a couple of ultimate phrases.
To start out, we all know there would not be a studio with out the individuals in it. Whereas it could sound cliched, as those that have labored at Volition can attest, it actually is a large household. Volition began with a crew that had a imaginative and prescient for learn how to make the sorts of video games others could not and infused that confidence all through the complete firm. We assembled an extremely gifted group of artists, storytellers, and creators who collectively constructed a tradition that attracted fine quality individuals who actually cared for one another. Time progressed, individuals naturally got here and went (and fairly often returned once more!), however the individuals have been all the time what made Volition actually particular. Do all builders really feel the identical? We all know they do, however on this case there actually was a novel tradition of people who cared about one another like household, mixed with the need to create a number of the most unusual video games ever created. Thanks a lot to each Volitionite who has ever labored right here. You’re all what made this the magical place it was to work at, and we are able to by no means say sufficient about how a lot you might have meant to us over these 30 years.
Past our developmentfamily, we additionally would not have a studio with out our prolonged household -our neighborhood! For 30 years now you might have performed our video games – generally you have cherished them, generally you have been disillusioned with them, however you have all the time been there. We will communicate for everybody who has labored at Volition after we say all of the onerous work and sacrifices we have put into these video games have been for you. Over these a few years we have now loved engaged on an especially various collection of video games, and so lots of you might have come alongside for that experience. We will not thanks sufficient for sticking with us all through all this time. We have cherished your enthusiasm each step of the best way, even these occasions whenever you want we had (or hadn’t!) gone a sure approach with a Saints Row or Crimson Faction or Descent. You’re why we stored making these video games, and people of us which have been a part of the Volition household can be eternally grateful.
Farewell.
Volition’s newest sport, a reboot of the veteran Saints Row franchise, launched in 2022 and the developer has been onerous at work updating it and dealing on DLC earlier than Embracer determined to close it down.
The studio debuted 1993 as Parallax Software program, releasing Descent and its sequel earlier than it was renamed to Volition in 1996. Since then, it developed loads of beloved video games together with the aforementioned Crimson Faction and Saints Row collection.
The studio modified possession a number of occasions within the later a part of its historical past, together with THQ, Deep Silver, and not too long ago Embracer, through its subsidiary Gearbox Leisure.
