Telltale Games Actively Working to Finish The Walking Dead's Final Season

[VSG]

When news broke late last week on Telltale Games entering majority closure, many feared that the final season of The Walking Dead game series would be cancelled without a resolution to Clementine's story. News then came out as to how the now-former employees of the studio were not being given severance pay and had to go about without compensation for a lot of their time on this game, and others. In retrospect, there were definitely larger issues to tackle first as many of their peers in the industry pointed out- especially when those former employees have filed a class action lawsuit in a federal court citing violation of labor laws.

It was interesting then that Telltale announced on Twitter that they were actively working to wrap up the pending two episodes for the season, with episode 2 having being released a few hours prior to when this post goes up. There are apparently multiple outside partners willing to help out, and they hope to get episodes 3 and 4 out "in some form". There are no promises or guarantees made, but between long-term fans wanting them to make the game season complete and others admonishing them for prioritizing this over pending payment of employees, Telltale Games is caught between a rock and a hard place. Whatever happens in the future, well, let's just say that we will all remember that.



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[DeathtoGnomes]

you should mention the new lawsuit too.

 

[VSG]

you should mention the new lawsuit too.

I wanted to wait till that got a response from the company, as likely will be the case, to then present both sides. But you are right in that it is relevant here, so I added a note and cited a source to those wanting to follow up at this time.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I have heard many complaints about even if telltale do complete the final season, that content wise it wouldnt have the same feel as the earlier chapters made by the original team. most of the original script/story writers, artists and programmers are gone and with them outsourcing the work to another developer or 'partner', there is a possibility that it won't capture the feel and the passion of the chapters made by the original dev team.

They are licensing or selling their IP to buy them some time to finish the game off but they arent even thinking about paying all those people they let go and put in such dire financial situations.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

I wanted to wait till that got a response from the company, as likely will be the case, to then present both sides. But you are right in that it is relevant here, so I added a note and cited a source to those wanting to follow up at this time.

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...nale-reportedly-cancelled.247812/post-3910904

Link to a link to a l... wait how many is that?

 

[Vayra86]

The irony. The walking dead, working on the walking dead.

 

[Caring1]

I'm not sure how stupid those people are admonishing this company for attempting to finish a series, instead of paying ex employees, but they must be pretty stupid if they think a company with no money can pay, and outside backers will be the white knights here coming to their rescue.

 

[iO]

Rumors say it's going to be in the form of a comic.